Tropescilloscope: Martial Arts Movie

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Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Historical Hero Upgrade In Name Only Badass Grandpa Naïve Newcomer Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Older Than They Look The Quiet One I Did What I Had to Do May–December Romance What You Are in the Dark Malevolent Masked Men Unreliable Narrator Wretched Hive Deadpan Snarker Adapted Out Insane Troll Logic Dramedy Immune to Bullets Christmas Movies Index Beware the Nice Ones Disguised in Drag Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Better to Die than Be Killed Once More, with Clarity! Stepford Smiler Pyrrhic Victory Lampshade Hanging Slap-Slap-Kiss Award-Bait Song A Minor Kidroduction Darker and Edgier Creepy Child Up to Eleven Kill It with Fire Decoy Protagonist Contrived Coincidence Only Known by Their Nickname Ship Tease Pimped-Out Dress Red Shirt The Bad Guy Wins Antagonist Title Villainous Breakdown Leave the Camera Running The Stinger Camera Abuse Not Quite Dead Genre Shift Love Triangle 20 Minutes into the Future Cassandra Truth Didn't Think This Through Only One Name Alpha Bitch For the Evulz Works Set in World War II Poor Communication Kills No OSHA Compliance Pay Evil unto Evil Mama Bear Obviously Evil Our Zombies Are Different Neck Lift Catapult Nightmare Crazy-Prepared Pretty Little Headshots Anachronism Stew Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Market-Based Title Gold Digger Kick the Son of a Bitch Cold-Blooded Torture Bound and Gagged Rape as Drama Hair-Trigger Temper Genre Throwback Drugs Are Bad As You Know Whole Plot Reference Redshirt Army Broken Pedestal Off-into-the-Distance Ending Wounded Gazelle Gambit Hell Is That Noise Biopic Chiaroscuro folderlabel Left the Background Music On The Mafia B-Movie '80s Hair Hope Spot Call-Back Scary Black Man Berserk Button N-Word Privileges Gilligan Cut The Lost Lenore Would Hurt a Child Fake Shemp Credits Gag Facial Horror Mundane Made Awesome Demoted to Extra Film Series Early Installment Weirdness Fourth Date Marriage You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Manly Tears The Place Cluster F-Bomb Reality Ensues Paper-Thin Disguise Hate Sink Get Out! As the Good Book Says... Jerk Jock Hypocrite Killed Mid-Sentence Adult Fear Brutal Honesty Bond Villain Stupidity Everyone Has Standards All Just a Dream Soundtrack Dissonance This Is Gonna Suck Diabolus ex Machina Dark Reprise Curse Cut Short No Celebrities Were Harmed German Films Corrupt Corporate Executive Martial Arts Movie Broken Aesop Dogged Nice Guy Gone Horribly Right Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Re-Cut Hooker with a Heart of Gold Continuity Nod "The Reason You Suck" Speech Artistic License – Physics Face–Heel Turn Parental Incest It's Personal Big Damn Heroes Mythology Gag The Casanova Motor Mouth Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Smug Snake Black Comedy Unspoken Plan Guarantee Adaptation Dye-Job Unusual Euphemism Expository Hairstyle Change Made of Explodium Evil Laugh Twist Ending She Cleans Up Nicely Defiant to the End Does This Remind You of Anything? A Date with Rosie Palms Properly Paranoid Word of God Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Spell My Name with an "S" The Hero Dies Mighty Whitey Protagonist Title Bait-and-Switch British Films Bad Boss Almost Kiss No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Recycled IN SPACE! Ascended Extra And the Adventure Continues Even Evil Has Loved Ones Fish out of Water Sinister Minister Fanservice Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Papa Wolf Dutch Angle Cat Scare Kill 'em All Artistic License – Gun Safety Rule of Funny Love at First Sight Villain Ball Green-Eyed Monster Kubrick Stare Imagine Spot Broken Bird Parental Abandonment Dirty Coward Super Strength Action Survivor Worthy Opponent Abusive Parents Calling the Old Man Out Off with His Head! Dissonant Serenity Drowning My Sorrows Mad Scientist Dirty Cop Setting Update Real Life Writes the Plot Conspicuous CG Interrupted Suicide Film Noir Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Our Vampires Are Different Slasher Movie Novelization Extremely Short Timespan Big Applesauce Evil Is Hammy Artistic License – History Punch-Clock Villain Fantasy Films Refuge in Audacity Funny Foreigner Bilingual Bonus Male Gaze Bavarian Fire Drill Never My Fault Five-Man Band Hollywood Law Horror Comedy Missing Mom Adorkable Villain with Good Publicity Children Are Innocent Foregone Conclusion The Faceless Room Full of Crazy Even Evil Has Standards Destination Defenestration Historical In-Joke Beta Couple Faux Affably Evil Funny Background Event The X of Y The Dreaded Scenery Gorn Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Manchild Australian Movies Have a Gay Old Time Politically Incorrect Villain Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Babies Ever After Never Trust a Trailer Manipulative Bastard Suddenly SHOUTING! Star-Crossed Lovers One-Word Title Mind Screw Pre-Mortem One-Liner Heel–Face Turn Hoist by His Own Petard Famous Last Words Darkest Hour Reasonable Authority Figure Cain and Abel Unwitting Instigator of Doom Drill Sergeant Nasty Foil Deliberate Values Dissonance Knight Templar Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday The Stoic Random Events Plot Arc Words Obfuscating Stupidity Mystery and Detective Films Agony of the Feet Badass in a Nice Suit Sole Survivor Narrator Danny Peary Cult Movies List Card-Carrying Villain Betty and Veronica Guns Akimbo Action Genre The Big Guy Make It Look Like an Accident A Father to His Men Bare Your Midriff Celebrity Paradox Dressing as the Enemy Bury Your Gays Loophole Abuse A.I. Is a Crapshoot Revenge Double Entendre Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Gender Flip Japanese Films Took a Level in Jerkass Brick Joke Big-Bad Ensemble Too Dumb to Live "Shaggy Dog" Story Honor Before Reason The End... Or Is It? Animal Motifs Death by Irony Retirony Dies Wide Open Straight Gay Horror Films Not Even Bothering with the Accent Rule of Symbolism Oh, Crap! Every Car Is a Pinto Scenery Porn Last-Name Basis Faking the Dead Artistic License – Law Wham Shot Happily Married Adaptational Attractiveness How We Got Here O.O.C. Is Serious Business Psychological Thriller Freeze-Frame Bonus Names to Run Away from Really Fast Brainless Beauty The Ditz Dramatic Irony Exactly What It Says on the Tin Boom, Headshot! Crazy Jealous Guy Depraved Bisexual Genre Savvy "Awesome McCool" Name Bowdlerise Posthumous Character Spiteful Spit You Have Failed Me Homage Eagleland Shout-Out Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Shell-Shocked Veteran Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Flipping the Bird In the Back Married to the Job Humans Are Bastards Based on a True Story Maybe Ever After Chase Scene Meaningful Background Event Death by Adaptation Actor Allusion The Dog Bites Back Say My Name Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Did Not Get the Girl Fate Worse than Death Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Meaningful Echo Beauty Is Never Tarnished Black Comedy Rape Composite Character The Remake Visual Pun Scare Chord The Chick The Starscream It's All About Me Beard of Evil Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Asshole Victim Rated M for Manly Anti-Hero Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Line-of-Sight Name The Reveal Good Is Not Nice Ripped from the Headlines Eldritch Abomination Historical-Domain Character Gory Discretion Shot Sequel Escalation Bland-Name Product Victoria's Secret Compartment Expy Vomit Indiscretion Shot Running Gag Heel Realization Artistic License – Military Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Plot Hole Sacrificial Lion Canon Foreigner The Smart Guy Vacation Films Reality Is Unrealistic Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Self-Deprecation Artistic License – Biology Mr. Exposition Driven to Suicide And I Must Scream Major Injury Underreaction Handicapped Badass Not Using the "Z" Word Noodle Incident Dying Moment of Awesome Grey and Gray Morality Grievous Bottley Harm Evil vs. Evil The Film of the Book Documentary Greater-Scope Villain Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The Brute Totally Radical Not What It Looks Like Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Gainax Ending Tap on the Head Fatal Flaw Light Is Not Good Anti-Villain Heroes Want Redheads Wicked Cultured What the Hell, Hero? I Have Your Wife The Load Vampire Fiction Alliterative Name Adults Are Useless Establishing Character Moment You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Captain Ersatz Nothing Is Scarier Fingore I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Animal Title Index Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Cool Shades Wham Line Hong Kong Films Book-Ends Improbable Aiming Skills Made of Iron Country Matters Disney Death No-Sell Mooks Suspiciously Similar Substitute Air-Vent Passageway Superhero Television Movie Index Heroic BSoD Camp Gay Take a Third Option Heterosexual Life-Partners Eye Scream I Need a Freaking Drink The Alleged Car Same Language Dub Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Naked People Are Funny Developing Doomed Characters Knife Nut As Himself Humiliation Conga Fat Bastard Offscreen Teleportation Parental Substitute Loads and Loads of Characters Adaptational Heroism Spiritual Successor Dark Is Not Evil Large Ham Retired Badass Police are Useless Anyone Can Die Accidental Misnaming Slashed Throat Overly Long Gag Jitter Cam World of Ham Bolivian Army Ending You Killed My Father Ass Shove The Lancer Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Jerk with a Heart of Gold Badass Normal Product Placement Peek-a-Boo Corpse Ambiguously Gay All Girls Want Bad Boys Black and Gray Morality Ghost Fiction Intrepid Reporter Impaled with Extreme Prejudice And Starring Let's Get Dangerous! Never Found the Body It Can Think Important Haircut Cowboy Cop Pet the Dog Stalker with a Crush Throwing Your Sword Always Works Frame-Up Accidental Murder Only in It for the Money Closed Circle Unusually Uninteresting Sight Badass Boast Idiot Ball The Alcoholic Evil Sounds Deep Cool Guns Plucky Comic Relief Shipper on Deck Bald of Evil Woman Scorned Author Appeal MacGuffin Anachronic Order Black Best Friend Evil Plan Index of Film Westerns Woman in White Male Frontal Nudity Adaptational Villainy BFG Affably Evil Bond One-Liner Retcon Psychopathic Manchild Your Head A-Splode The Vamp Extreme Doormat Batman Gambit Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Mexican Standoff One Steve Limit Big Bad Punny Name Cat Fight Shirtless Scene Failed a Spot Check Madness Mantra Meaningful Name No Name Given The '80s Red Right Hand Skewed Priorities Toplessness from the Back Arranged Marriage Epic Fail Undying Loyalty Neck Snap Bloodless Carnage An Aesop Military and Warfare Films The Hero Instant Death Bullet Death of a Child Chekhov's Skill Eureka Moment Ungrateful Bastard Back from the Dead Department of Redundancy Department More Dakka Disney Villain Death Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Men Are the Expendable Gender Psycho for Hire Body Horror Animated Credits Opening Storming the Castle Exact Words Truth in Television Leitmotif Gorn Cool Old Guy Sequel Hook Ambiguous Ending Not So Stoic Stock Footage Death Seeker Video Credits Dramatic Gun Cock Epic Movie Deus ex Machina Sassy Black Woman Sealed Evil in a Can Music Stories Stealth Pun My Beloved Smother Translation Convention Parental Neglect Covers Always Lie Evil Counterpart Ragtag Bunch of Misfits No Antagonist Police Brutality Hypocritical Humor Getting Crap Past the Radar Fainting Death by Sex Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Epilogue Foreshadowing Sir Swears-a-Lot Tempting Fate Manic Pixie Dream Girl Soft Glass Monumental Damage The Musical Obstructive Bureaucrat Coming-of-Age Story Insult Backfire Playing Gertrude Bunny-Ears Lawyer Reckless Gun Usage Jump Scare Badass Bookworm The Great Depression Flashback Dark and Troubled Past Arch-Enemy The Ace Daddy's Girl From Nobody to Nightmare Ax-Crazy Black Dude Dies First Hollywood Darkness Mood Whiplash Show Within a Show French Films Author Avatar Token Minority Title Drop Ms. Fanservice Bullying a Dragon Rule of Three Race Lift Bring My Brown Pants Spanner in the Works Empathic Environment Meet Cute Eiffel Tower Effect Friend to All Children Car Fu Framing Device Fanservice Extra Redemption Equals Death Riddle for the Ages Apocalypse How Taking You with Me Final Girl Irony Be Careful What You Wish For Attempted Rape Affectionate Parody Bi the Way Laughing Mad Death Glare Cruel and Unusual Death Dual Wielding Rousing Speech Canadian Movies Curb-Stomp Battle