Tropescilloscope: Martial Arts Movie

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They Really Do Love Each Other Badass in a Nice Suit Unresolved Sexual Tension Redshirt Army Light Is Not Good Dropped a Bridge on Him Paper-Thin Disguise Naked People Are Funny Worthy Opponent No OSHA Compliance Sir Swears-a-Lot Non-Indicative Name Darker and Edgier Neck Lift Cowboy Cop A God Am I Dirty Old Man Line-of-Sight Name For the Evulz Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Novelization Call-Forward Funny Foreigner Aside Glance Heterosexual Life-Partners Foil Badass Normal Deus ex Machina Broken Bird Time Skip Storming the Castle Knife Nut The Smart Guy Author Avatar Only in It for the Money Recycled IN SPACE! Drives Like Crazy Villain with Good Publicity Sinister Minister Unusual Euphemism Mr. Exposition Kick the Son of a Bitch Hidden Depths Married to the Job Soundtrack Dissonance folderlabel Black Comedy Artistic License – Military Tranquil Fury Evil Sounds Deep Rasputinian Death Word of God Redemption Equals Death Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Historical Hero Upgrade Historical Villain Upgrade Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Romantic False Lead Badass Grandpa Whole Plot Reference Arc Words The Ghost And I Must Scream Cool Shades Spell My Name with an "S" Bare Your Midriff I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Lighter and Softer Laser-Guided Karma Darkest Hour Took a Level in Jerkass Does Not Like Shoes Pre-Asskicking One-Liner '80s Hair Real Life Made of Explodium Pimped-Out Dress Cool Old Guy Enemy Mine Psychological Thriller Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Award-Bait Song The Big Guy Reckless Gun Usage Deadpan Snarker The Chick Funny Background Event Victoria's Secret Compartment Chiaroscuro You Have Failed Me Mama Bear Lampshade Hanging Drugs Are Bad Wretched Hive Epic Fail Not Quite Dead Covers Always Lie It's Personal Plot Hole Hong Kong Films Call-Back Oh, Crap! Naïve Newcomer Parental Incest Auto Erotica Casting Gag From Nobody to Nightmare Adaptational Badass Eiffel Tower Effect Reality Is Unrealistic The Place Fingore Only Sane Man Animal Title Index Genre Savvy Revenge Jerkass Grievous Bottley Harm Television Movie Index Toplessness from the Back Dual Wielding There Is No Kill Like Overkill Evil Is Petty Zombie Stories Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Composite Character I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Show Within a Show Psychopathic Manchild Big "NO!" Affectionate Parody Final Girl Death of a Child Manly Tears Fake Shemp What You Are in the Dark Woman in White Adults Are Useless Fourth Date Marriage Face–Heel Turn Easily Forgiven Suspiciously Similar Substitute Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Romantic Comedy Back from the Dead Title Drop Eyepatch of Power Meaningful Echo Neck Snap Action Genre I Have Your Wife No Antagonist Ominous Latin Chanting Dumb Blonde Actor Allusion Knight Templar Maybe Ever After The Cavalry Framing Device Damsel in Distress "Awesome McCool" Name Car Fu Martial Arts Movie Nothing Is Scarier Bowdlerise Reasonable Authority Figure A.I. Is a Crapshoot The Dog Bites Back Pragmatic Villainy Chekhov's Gun Due to the Dead Scenery Gorn Corpsing Missing Mom Heroic BSoD Villain Ball Bury Your Gays Break the Cutie Chekhov's Gunman The Dreaded The Starscream Mood Whiplash Only Known by Their Nickname Daylight Horror Fiery Redhead Bad Boss Attempted Rape Bloodless Carnage Hero Antagonist Twist Ending Very Loosely Based on a True Story Ambiguous Disorder Off-into-the-Distance Ending Retired Badass Spanner in the Works Tempting Fate Love at First Sight The Ditz Stalker with a Crush Cool Guns As Himself She Cleans Up Nicely Yandere Humiliation Conga Rape as Drama Dark Action Girl Sacrificial Lion Heroes Want Redheads Race Lift Book-Ends Those Wacky Nazis Monumental Damage As Long as It Sounds Foreign The Casanova Domestic Abuse Shoot the Shaggy Dog BFG Peek-a-Boo Corpse Chewing the Scenery Well-Intentioned Extremist Comically Missing the Point May–December Romance Meet Cute Shell-Shocked Veteran Actually Pretty Funny Deliberate Values Dissonance Your Head A-Splode Blackmail Grey and Gray Morality One Steve Limit Spiteful Spit Malevolent Masked Men Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Real Life Writes the Plot Department of Redundancy Department Hair-Trigger Temper Obfuscating Stupidity Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Age Lift It's All About Me War Is Hell It Will Never Catch On Meaningful Name Our Vampires Are Different Villain Protagonist Despair Event Horizon Slashed Throat Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Annoying Younger Sibling Anyone Can Die Pretty in Mink Action Survivor The Ace Mexican Standoff Never My Fault My God, What Have I Done? Arch-Enemy Silence Is Golden Poor Communication Kills Italian Films Armor-Piercing Question The Mole Posthumous Character Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Death by Irony Unwitting Instigator of Doom Cool Car Early Installment Weirdness Bad "Bad Acting" All Men Are Perverts Bring My Brown Pants Papa Wolf Plucky Comic Relief Fish out of Water All There in the Script Crucified Hero Shot Black Dude Dies First Cain and Abel Big Fancy House Protagonist Title Humans Are Bastards Narrator La Résistance Villain Opening Scene Exact Words Setting Update The X of Y Eureka Moment Big Bad Duumvirate Badass Bookworm Rich Bitch Gory Discretion Shot Woman Scorned Dwindling Party Truth in Television Taking the Bullet He Who Fights Monsters "The Reason You Suck" Speech Mugging the Monster Deconstruction Running Gag Red Right Hand Drowning My Sorrows Bait-and-Switch Smoking Is Cool Race Against the Clock Defiant to the End Riddle for the Ages Shower Scene Bullying a Dragon Failed a Spot Check The Un-Reveal Vacation Films Jerk Jock Fantastic Racism Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Awesome, but Impractical Ms. Fanservice Room Full of Crazy Empathic Environment Fate Worse than Death Accidental Misnaming You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Or Is It? Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Men Are the Expendable Gender Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Big Brother Instinct Hypocritical Humor Overprotective Dad Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Cloudcuckoolander Death by Adaptation Big Damn Heroes I Need a Freaking Drink Not Using the "Z" Word All Just a Dream Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Henpecked Husband Training Montage The Lancer Becoming the Mask Together in Death Fan Disservice Country Matters Karmic Death Leave the Camera Running Bunny-Ears Lawyer Fanservice Totally Radical Celebrity Paradox Wicked Cultured Motor Mouth The Cameo Soft Glass Roaring Rampage of Revenge Those Two Bad Guys The '80s Everyone Has Standards The Hero Air-Vent Passageway Random Events Plot Conspicuous CG Karma Houdini Author Appeal Badass Longcoat Have a Gay Old Time Anti-Villain Intrepid Reporter Would Hit a Girl The '60s Lock and Load Montage Red Oni, Blue Oni Dogged Nice Guy Evil Plan Artistic License – Physics Biopic Closed Circle Horror Comedy Mystery and Detective Films Captain Obvious Bloody Hilarious True Companions Body Horror Idiot Ball Punny Name Wrong Genre Savvy Undying Loyalty Betty and Veronica Serious Business Freudian Excuse Major Injury Underreaction Rule of Cool The Remake The Mafia The Great Depression Police are Useless Superhero Developing Doomed Characters Demonic Possession Artistic License – History Gender Flip Star-Crossed Lovers Action Prologue Historical In-Joke Adaptation Dye-Job Black Comedy Rape The Reveal Artistic License – Geography Creator Cameo Ambiguously Gay Evil Brit Sci-Fi Horror An Arm and a Leg Improvised Weapon Credits Gag Happily Married World of Ham Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Manic Pixie Dream Girl Amoral Attorney Break the Haughty Exactly What It Says on the Tin Belligerent Sexual Tension Gorn No Celebrities Were Harmed Affably Evil Hope Spot Card-Carrying Villain Vomit Indiscretion Shot Mistaken for Gay The Hero Dies Frame-Up Agony of the Feet Greater-Scope Villain Anachronic Order "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Mythology Gag The Quiet One This Is Gonna Suck Calling the Old Man Out Hooker with a Heart of Gold Fanservice Extra Danny Peary Cult Movies List Animated Credits Opening And the Adventure Continues N-Word Privileges Captain Ersatz Bottomless Magazines Stylistic Suck Hollywood Law Rated M for Manly Rewatch Bonus Kubrick Stare Sequel Escalation Dull Surprise Tagline Never Trust a Trailer Make It Look Like an Accident Unreliable Narrator Sole Survivor No Ending Abhorrent Admirer Bittersweet Ending Adaptation Name Change Retcon Mercy Kill Jerkass Has a Point B-Movie Drill Sergeant Nasty Video Credits Irony Say My Name Didn't Think This Through Slasher Smile Bald of Evil Destination Defenestration The Musical Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Hypocrite Dirty Coward The Stinger Shout-Out The '50s Death Seeker Cool Old Lady It Can Think Artistic License – Biology Asshole Victim My Beloved Smother No Name Given Action Girl The Load Slap-Slap-Kiss Playing Gertrude Get Out! 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Taking You with Me Vampire Fiction Eldritch Abomination Jerk with a Heart of Gold Loophole Abuse The Dragon Manipulative Bastard Adaptational Heroism Film Series And Starring Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Epic Movie Establishing Character Moment Works Set in World War II Roger Ebert: Great Movies List After the End Fatal Family Photo Mighty Whitey Cluster F-Bomb Hell Is That Noise Once More, with Clarity! 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Big Bad Cat Scare Tap on the Head Guns Akimbo Black Best Friend Fantasy Films The '90s Token Minority Took a Level in Badass Shown Their Work An Aesop Adaptational Villainy Male Frontal Nudity Pet the Dog Psycho for Hire Artistic License – Gun Safety Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Red Eyes, Take Warning Dies Wide Open Loads and Loads of Characters Flashback Hero of Another Story Animal Motifs Jump Scare Combat Pragmatist More Dakka Cold-Blooded Torture Stealth Hi/Bye Would Hurt a Child Creative Closing Credits Bolivian Army Ending Corrupt Corporate Executive Cat Fight Deal with the Devil Beware the Nice Ones Super Strength One-Word Title Manchild The Power of Love Gold Digger Let's Get Dangerous! Adaptation Distillation Good Is Not Nice Berserk Button