Tropescilloscope: Meet Cute

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Papa Wolf Slasher Smile Toplessness from the Back Wounded Gazelle Gambit Major Injury Underreaction Fun with Acronyms Determinator Public Domain Feature Films folderlabel Sinister Minister Historical Villain Upgrade Tranquil Fury She Cleans Up Nicely Creator Cameo Male Frontal Nudity A Minor Kidroduction Would Hit a Girl Drill Sergeant Nasty Vacation Films Anachronic Order In Name Only Badass Longcoat Death by Adaptation Novelization Have a Gay Old Time Despair Event Horizon Affably Evil Self-Deprecation Meet Cute Crapsack World Hair-Trigger Temper It's All About Me "Awesome McCool" Name Grievous Bottley Harm Cain and Abel Mind Screw Title Drop Roaring Rampage of Revenge Non-Indicative Name Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Rule of Three Our Zombies Are Different Call-Forward Bury Your Gays The Un-Reveal Artistic License – Gun Safety Broken Aesop A God Am I Adaptation Expansion Thriller Bad Boss Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Broken Bird Awesome, but Impractical The Great Depression Lampshade Hanging Christmas Movies Index Department of Redundancy Department Motor Mouth Depraved Bisexual Historical In-Joke Villainous Breakdown Put on a Bus Karmic Death Posthumous Character Friend to All Children Made of Explodium Hope Spot Antagonist Title Mexican Standoff Amoral Attorney Slashed Throat Defiant to the End Half the Man He Used to Be Taking the Bullet Fatal Family Photo Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Adaptational Heroism Face–Heel Turn Nice Hat Brick Joke Wrong Genre Savvy Television Movie Index Big Damn Heroes Vampire Fiction Hooker with a Heart of Gold The Lost Lenore My God, What Have I Done? The '80s Loads and Loads of Characters German Films Loophole Abuse Eye Scream Improvised Weapon Random Events Plot Morality Pet Worthy Opponent Revenge Black Comedy Rape Irony And Starring Heel Realization Tempting Fate Back from the Dead May–December Romance Ascended Extra Not What It Looks Like Ambiguous Ending N-Word Privileges BFG Dies Wide Open No-Sell Blackmail Dying Moment of Awesome Overprotective Dad Killed Mid-Sentence Freeze-Frame Bonus Skewed Priorities The Cameo Shipper on Deck Early Installment Weirdness MacGuffin Vitriolic Best Buds As Himself Evil Plan Love Triangle La Résistance Index of Film Westerns Sassy Black Woman Darkest Hour Obviously Evil Only in It for the Money Ominous Latin Chanting Framing Device Victoria's Secret Compartment Gainax Ending All for Nothing Blood from the Mouth Big Bad Duumvirate Unspoken Plan Guarantee Stock Footage Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Dragon Plucky Comic Relief I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Fantasy Films Captain Obvious As the Good Book Says... Chewing the Scenery The Chick Drowning My Sorrows Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Peek-a-Boo Corpse Funny Foreigner Real Life Writes the Plot Mr. Fanservice More Dakka Artistic License – Military Sole Survivor Country Matters Central Theme Not So Stoic Malevolent Masked Men Funny Background Event Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Amusing Injuries The Atoner Annoying Younger Sibling Failed a Spot Check My Beloved Smother An Axe to Grind Small Name, Big Ego Big Eater Time Skip Gold Digger Getting Crap Past the Radar The Smurfette Principle Beard of Evil The '70s Brutal Honesty Abusive Parents Pragmatic Villainy Hate Sink Rich Bitch Informed Ability Leave the Camera Running Eyepatch of Power Big Brother Instinct Sequel Hook Call-Back Take That! Mistaken for Gay She's Got Legs Determinator aka: The Determinator Reality Is Unrealistic Names to Run Away from Really Fast Camera Abuse Break the Haughty Alpha Bitch Almost Kiss Parental Neglect Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Fan Disservice Last-Name Basis Pyrrhic Victory Mighty Whitey Psychopathic Manchild French Films Get Out! Bond One-Liner Badass Bookworm Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The Chessmaster Rule of Funny Offscreen Moment of Awesome True Companions Dramatic Gun Cock Say My Name Cowboy Cop He Knows Too Much Straight Gay Spiritual Successor Bottomless Magazines Villain Ball How We Got Here Extremely Short Timespan The Power of Love Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Horror Films You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Bland-Name Product Historical-Domain Character Narrator Take a Third Option Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer All Just a Dream Together in Death Dirty Coward Did Not Get the Girl Early-Bird Cameo The End... Or Is It? Cool Old Lady Karma Houdini Suspiciously Similar Substitute Jerk with a Heart of Gold Imagine Spot Laser-Guided Karma Mooks Arranged Marriage Kill It with Fire "The Reason You Suck" Speech Corrupt Corporate Executive Expy Men Are the Expendable Gender Villain Song Made of Iron Chekhov's Skill Red Herring One Steve Limit Based on a True Story NO INDOOR VOICE Pimped-Out Dress Beware the Nice Ones Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Leaning on the Fourth Wall Composite Character Gilligan Cut Shell-Shocked Veteran Redshirt Army Hoist by His Own Petard Ship Tease Only Known by Their Nickname Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Storming the Castle Hidden Depths Dark Is Not Evil Manly Tears Enemy Mine Precision F-Strike Card-Carrying Villain Bring My Brown Pants Villain Protagonist Rousing Speech Evil Is Petty Animal Motifs Lock and Load Montage Shout-Out Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Whole Plot Reference No Ending Parental Incest Obstructive Bureaucrat Our Vampires Are Different Star-Crossed Lovers All There in the Manual Cool Shades Villain with Good Publicity The Remake Attempted Rape Refuge in Audacity Implacable Man Manic Pixie Dream Girl The Load Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? In Medias Res Pretty Little Headshots Double Entendre Martial Arts Movie Undying Loyalty War Is Hell Scenery Gorn Shut Up, Hannibal! Death Glare Ghost Fiction Those Two Guys The Hero The Sociopath Moment Killer Distracted by the Sexy Death by Sex Chase Scene Your Cheating Heart Big Fancy House "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Dissonant Serenity Frame-Up It Will Never Catch On After the End Badass Normal Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Blood Knight Parental Abandonment The '90s Big "NO!" The X of Y The Lancer Jitter Cam And the Adventure Continues Suddenly SHOUTING! Drives Like Crazy timeperiod Deliberately Monochrome Dirty Cop Not So Different Adaptation Dye-Job Not So Above It All Reality Ensues Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Spared by the Adaptation He Who Fights Monsters Age Lift Bloodier and Gorier Documentary Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Fingore Insult Backfire Bald of Evil Pay Evil unto Evil The Starscream Mercy Kill Serious Business Visual Pun Redemption Equals Death Wicked Cultured Shoot the Shaggy Dog Spiteful Spit Genre Savvy Large Ham Badass Boast Male Gaze Ambiguous Disorder My Greatest Failure Taking You with Me Jerkass Accidental Murder Slap-Slap-Kiss Eiffel Tower Effect Red Shirt "Well Done, Son!" Guy Married to the Job Vomit Discretion Shot Let's Get Dangerous! 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Intergenerational Friendship Bad "Bad Acting" Obfuscating Stupidity Cool Old Guy Deal with the Devil World of Ham Dogged Nice Guy Disappeared Dad The Cavalry Cool Car You Killed My Father Evil Sounds Deep Author Avatar Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Adorkable Mood Whiplash Sacrificial Lion Sports Stories The Oner The Alcoholic Beta Couple From Nobody to Nightmare Humans Are Bastards Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Superhero Auto Erotica Camp Gay Aluminum Christmas Trees Never Found the Body Easily Forgiven One-Word Title Fanservice Reasonable Authority Figure Ironic Echo The Bad Guy Wins Hollywood Law Sir Swears-a-Lot Eureka Moment Not Even Bothering with the Accent Guile Hero Scare Chord Gorn Alliterative Name Punny Name Disguised in Drag Crazy Jealous Guy Disney Death Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Apocalypse How Never Trust a Trailer Action Girl Break the Cutie Stalker with a Crush Armor-Piercing Question Artistic License – Physics Here We Go Again! Tap on the Head I Have Your Wife Happily Married Bittersweet Ending Anyone Can Die Drugs Are Bad The Smart Guy Creepy Child Madness Mantra Destination Defenestration Unusual Euphemism Dramedy Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Driven to Suicide An Arm and a Leg Once More, with Clarity! Same Language Dub Domestic Abuse Well-Intentioned Extremist Adult Fear Training Montage Butt-Monkey Damsel in Distress The Faceless I Did What I Had to Do Dropped a Bridge on Him The Reveal Double-Meaning Title Shirtless Scene Defrosting Ice Queen Lighter and Softer Badass Grandpa Deadpan Snarker Black Dude Dies First Reality Has No Subtitles Honor Before Reason Mystery and Detective Films Bowdlerise Spanner in the Works Offscreen Teleportation Does Not Like Shoes Dumb Blonde Babies Ever After Hypocrite Plot Hole Eldritch Abomination Cluster F-Bomb Running Gag Pre-Mortem One-Liner Catapult Nightmare Jump Scare Adaptational Villainy O.O.C. Is Serious Business Leitmotif Cool Guns Outrun the Fireball Fake Shemp Animal Title Index Chekhov's Gun Unresolved Sexual Tension Film Noir Only a Flesh Wound Arch-Enemy Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Stinger Didn't Think This Through Due to the Dead One-Man Army Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane A.I. Is a Crapshoot Line-of-Sight Name Ungrateful Bastard Instant Death Bullet Ripped from the Headlines Betty and Veronica You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Comically Missing the Point Shower Scene Chekhov's Gunman Bolivian Army Ending Meaningful Echo Cat Fight Establishing Character Moment The Big Guy Dark and Troubled Past Book-Ends Spell My Name with an "S" The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Ax-Crazy Adaptation Name Change Epic Fail Evil Counterpart Adults Are Useless Hong Kong Films Pet the Dog Eagleland Big Bad Adaptational Attractiveness You Have Failed Me Arc Words There Is No Kill Like Overkill Token Minority Mr. Exposition Earn Your Happy Ending Flashback Very Loosely Based on a True Story Serial Killer Rule of Cool Kids Are Cruel A Father to His Men Oh, Crap! For the Evulz Translation Convention Crazy-Prepared Crucified Hero Shot Faking the Dead Kick the Son of a Bitch Facial Horror Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Does This Remind You of Anything? This Is Gonna Suck Gender Flip Trailers Always Spoil Those Two Bad Guys Improbable Aiming Skills All Girls Want Bad Boys The Bully The Stoner Unreliable Narrator Bloody Hilarious Heterosexual Life-Partners Humiliation Conga Evil Is Hammy Meaningful Background Event The Mafia Asshole Victim Bullying a Dragon Nice Guy Police Brutality Russian Films Curse Cut Short Naked People Are Funny Race Lift Re-Cut Affectionate Parody Fainting Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Bond Villain Stupidity Anachronism Stew Anguished Declaration of Love Big-Bad Ensemble Slasher Movie Off with His Head! Sanity Slippage Artistic License – Biology Handicapped Badass Epic Movie The Quiet One The Hero Dies Cruel and Unusual Death Overly Long Gag Combat Pragmatist Death Seeker Authority Equals Asskicking Daylight Horror Extreme Doormat Foreshadowing Closed Circle Film Series Henpecked Husband Bare Your Midriff Bunny-Ears Lawyer Riddle for the Ages Gratuitous English Show Within a Show Intrepid Reporter Catch-Phrase Dual Wielding Empathic Environment Guns Akimbo Real Life Missing Mom Romantic False Lead Maybe Ever After The Stoic Off-into-the-Distance Ending Sadistic Choice Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Up to Eleven Famous Last Words Knight Templar Woman Scorned Totally Radical Properly Paranoid Artistic License – History Sequel Escalation Ms. Fanservice As Long as It Sounds Foreign Face Death with Dignity No Celebrities Were Harmed Corpsing Even Evil Has Loved Ones Black Comedy Fiery Redhead Pretty in Mink Nothing Is Scarier Celebrity Paradox The '60s From Bad to Worse Punch-Clock Villain Foil Villain Opening Scene Playing Gertrude Breaking the Fourth Wall Red Oni, Blue Oni Broken Pedestal The Casanova Expository Hairstyle Change Woman in White For Want of a Nail Adaptation Distillation Fatal Flaw Fish out of Water Brainless Beauty Genre Throwback Chiaroscuro No Name Given Accidental Misnaming Greater-Scope Villain Green-Eyed Monster Conspicuous CG Demoted to Extra Improbable Weapon User Anti-Hero Gone Horribly Right Black Best Friend Downer Ending All There in the Script Bilingual Bonus Australian Movies In the Back Romantic Comedy Even Evil Has Standards The Ace Insane Troll Logic Pragmatic Adaptation Fanservice Extra Cat Scare Sci-Fi Horror Better to Die than Be Killed Belligerent Sexual Tension All Men Are Perverts Bavarian Fire Drill Dull Surprise Children Are Innocent Protagonist Title British Films The '50s Award-Bait Song Genre Shift Kick the Dog Rule of Symbolism Canadian Movies Kill 'em All Actually Pretty Funny Rewatch Bonus Police are Useless Demonic Possession Calling the Old Man Out Dark Action Girl Yandere The Musical Costume Porn Too Dumb to Live Sealed Evil in a Can Smug Snake Decoy Protagonist Fantastic Racism Blatant Lies Good Is Not Nice Meaningful Name Shown Their Work Jerkass Has a Point Retired Badass Stylistic Suck Berserk Button Evil-Detecting Dog The Voiceless Psycho for Hire Deus ex Machina Light Is Not Good Red Right Hand Ass Shove Foregone Conclusion Character Development Not Quite Dead Man on Fire Soft Glass Horror Comedy Psychological Thriller Mundane Made Awesome Car Fu Cloudcuckoolander Disney Villain Death Knife Nut Scary Black Man Homage Dressing as the Enemy Throwing Your Sword Always Works The Mole Action Genre As You Know Really Gets Around Every Car Is a Pinto Unusually Uninteresting Sight Dirty Old Man Actor Allusion Red Eyes, Take Warning Sexy Discretion Shot Those Wacky Nazis Mugging the Monster Science Fiction Films Big Applesauce Fat Bastard Word of God Historical Hero Upgrade Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping