Tropescilloscope: Mexican Standoff

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Line-of-Sight Name Broken Bird "Awesome McCool" Name Super Strength Catch-Phrase Action Girl As Long as It Sounds Foreign Crucified Hero Shot Villain Song Fatal Family Photo Interrupted Suicide Not So Stoic Shipper on Deck Big Brother Instinct The Un-Reveal Mind Screw Curb-Stomp Battle Foregone Conclusion Disproportionate Retribution Television Movie Index The Musical Bury Your Gays Immune to Bullets Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Bar Brawl Ax-Crazy In Name Only Accidental Misnaming Handicapped Badass Gilligan Cut Genre Savvy Mundane Made Awesome Unusual Euphemism Malevolent Masked Men Bond Villain Stupidity Dirty Coward Kill 'em All Drives Like Crazy The Cameo Manic Pixie Dream Girl Big Damn Heroes Bunny-Ears Lawyer Roaring Rampage of Revenge Ass Shove The Power of Love Gory Discretion Shot Wrong Genre Savvy And the Adventure Continues Setting Update And I Must Scream Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Our Zombies Are Different Only in It for the Money The '80s Ms. Fanservice Children Are Innocent Fun with Acronyms Punny Name Only Known by Their Nickname Pay Evil unto Evil Death by Sex Getting Crap Past the Radar Race Against the Clock Australian Movies Due to the Dead No Ending Downer Ending Bilingual Bonus Green-Eyed Monster Spanner in the Works Red Herring Blood Knight Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie After the End Every Car Is a Pinto True Companions Karma Houdini Hollywood Law Film Noir Shirtless Scene Lighter and Softer Slasher Smile The '70s Totally Radical Domestic Abuse Small Name, Big Ego Heterosexual Life-Partners What the Hell, Hero? Blatant Lies Market-Based Title Playing Gertrude Tagline Really Gets Around Parental Abandonment Time Skip Beware the Nice Ones Tap on the Head Knife Nut Stealth Hi/Bye Suddenly SHOUTING! Author Avatar Unusually Uninteresting Sight Hollywood Darkness Historical Hero Upgrade Anachronism Stew Same Language Dub Gainax Ending Unreliable Narrator Insane Troll Logic Protagonist Title A.I. Is a Crapshoot Tranquil Fury Big-Bad Ensemble Deus ex Machina The Vamp Casting Gag Canadian Movies Those Two Guys Didn't Think This Through Ironic Echo Daylight Horror Recycled IN SPACE! The Chessmaster Breaking the Fourth Wall The '50s Mugging the Monster Monumental Damage Improbable Aiming Skills Dressing as the Enemy Artistic License – Law Adaptational Heroism Mexican Standoff Wham Line Boom, Headshot! The Remake Bound and Gagged Evil Brit Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Married to the Job Rule of Cool Ripped from the Headlines Vomit Discretion Shot Heroes Want Redheads '80s Hair Sadistic Choice Loads and Loads of Characters Shout-Out Beard of Evil Crazy Jealous Guy No Celebrities Were Harmed Overly Long Gag Affectionate Parody Insistent Terminology Awesome, but Impractical Moment Killer Fourth Date Marriage Manipulative Bastard Big Eater Too Dumb to Live Guns Akimbo Closed Circle Better to Die than Be Killed Dramatic Irony Historical-Domain Character Affably Evil Police are Useless Spiritual Successor Determinator aka: The Determinator Dark Reprise Establishing Character Moment Lock and Load Montage Romantic Comedy Chiaroscuro Translation Convention Retired Badass Author Appeal Crapsack World Film Series Man on Fire The Stinger Instant Death Bullet Shoot the Shaggy Dog Evil vs. Evil Parental Substitute Kick the Dog Foreshadowing Drugs Are Bad All Just a Dream Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Anti-Villain Not So Above It All Spared by the Adaptation Ominous Latin Chanting Never My Fault Evil Plan I Want My Beloved to Be Happy One-Word Title Poor Communication Kills Exact Words Male Frontal Nudity Killed Mid-Sentence Imagine Spot Romantic False Lead Cool Old Lady Beta Couple 20 Minutes into the Future Wretched Hive Faux Affably Evil Rewatch Bonus Ambiguously Gay The Load Covers Always Lie Rasputinian Death May–December Romance You Killed My Father Demoted to Extra Plot Hole Training Montage Exactly What It Says on the Tin Reality Ensues Coming-of-Age Story Dutch Angle Deliberately Monochrome Kick the Son of a Bitch Big Applesauce For Want of a Nail Jump Scare Fantastic Racism Biopic The Hero Dies Badass Bookworm Mythology Gag Death Seeker I Need a Freaking Drink Large Ham Aside Glance Batman Gambit One Steve Limit Character Development Black Comedy Framing Device Mr. Fanservice Dramedy Double-Meaning Title Actor Allusion No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Lampshade Hanging Make It Look Like an Accident Flashback Pyrrhic Victory Rich Bitch Shut Up, Hannibal! Historical In-Joke Soft Glass Betty and Veronica Laser-Guided Karma Sci-Fi Horror Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Narrator Eldritch Abomination NO INDOOR VOICE Daddy's Girl War Is Hell Death by Adaptation Historical Villain Upgrade What You Are in the Dark Police Brutality Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Good Is Not Nice Artistic License – Physics Kubrick Stare British Films Catapult Nightmare The Alcoholic Sequel Hook Belligerent Sexual Tension Your Head A-Splode Wham Shot Bad "Bad Acting" Victoria's Secret Compartment Nice Guy Yandere Psycho for Hire Mr. Exposition Sassy Black Woman Frame-Up Offscreen Teleportation Dramatic Gun Cock Danny Peary Cult Movies List Stealth Pun The '90s The Place Captain Ersatz Sexy Discretion Shot Suspiciously Similar Substitute You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Adults Are Useless Hong Kong Films One-Man Army Arch-Enemy Berserk Button The X of Y Almost Kiss Henpecked Husband Agony of the Feet Half the Man He Used to Be Bottomless Magazines Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Rule of Symbolism More Dakka I Have Your Wife Skewed Priorities Calling the Old Man Out Serial Killer Spell My Name with an "S" Properly Paranoid Bond One-Liner Big "NO!" Bad Boss Cowboy Cop Twist Ending Costume Porn Knight Templar Storming the Castle You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Zombie Stories The Dog Bites Back Humiliation Conga Face Death with Dignity Missing Mom Eureka Moment Intrepid Reporter All There in the Script Heel–Face Turn Star-Crossed Lovers Sole Survivor Arranged Marriage Heroic BSoD Stalker with a Crush Jerkass Has a Point Adaptation Distillation As Himself Unspoken Plan Guarantee Fatal Flaw Humans Are Bastards All Men Are Perverts Jerk Jock The Smart Guy Contrived Coincidence Neck Lift Sealed Evil in a Can Pet the Dog Fantasy Films Hate Sink Anti-Hero An Aesop The Casanova Riddle for the Ages Once More, with Clarity! Brainless Beauty Not Quite Dead Gender Flip Ambiguous Ending Celebrity Paradox Abusive Parents "The Reason You Suck" Speech Disappeared Dad Mistaken for Gay Abhorrent Admirer Bavarian Fire Drill The Great Depression Grey and Gray Morality Car Fu A Minor Kidroduction Call-Back Faking the Dead Mooks Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Department of Redundancy Department Left the Background Music On In Medias Res Artistic License – Gun Safety Whole Plot Reference Villain Opening Scene Badass in a Nice Suit Novelization Slasher Movie Idiot Ball Plucky Comic Relief The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Continuity Nod Thriller Tempting Fate Bolivian Army Ending Match Cut Adaptation Expansion No-Sell Flipping the Bird Video Credits Drill Sergeant Nasty What Happened to the Mouse? Laughing Mad Easily Forgiven Reasonable Authority Figure Evil Is Hammy Alpha Bitch Epic Movie Butt-Monkey The Mafia Villain Protagonist Index of Film Westerns Naked People Are Funny Corpsing Music Stories Together in Death The Stoner Kill It with Fire Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Pretty Little Headshots The Atoner Age Lift Earn Your Happy Ending Depraved Bisexual It's Personal Action Genre Peek-a-Boo Corpse Truth in Television As the Good Book Says... Obstructive Bureaucrat Token Minority Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The Smurfette Principle Random Events Plot Grievous Bottley Harm Heroic Sacrifice Outrun the Fireball Camp Gay Actually Pretty Funny Meet Cute Dies Wide Open Artistic License – Biology Put on a Bus The Dreaded Broken Aesop Hypocrite Bare Your Midriff Hooker with a Heart of Gold Fanservice Extra Meaningful Name Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other My God, What Have I Done? Break the Haughty Up to Eleven Creator Cameo Neck Snap Babies Ever After Reckless Gun Usage Posthumous Character All Girls Want Bad Boys The Hero Enemy Mine No OSHA Compliance Those Wacky Nazis Dissonant Serenity Everyone Has Standards Manly Tears Freudian Excuse Brick Joke Evil Is Petty Advertised Extra Rule of Funny Names to Run Away from Really Fast Cruel and Unusual Death Film Noir Index Accidental Murder Alas, Poor Villain Bullying a Dragon There Is No Kill Like Overkill Antagonist Title Jerkass Destination Defenestration Real Life Dual Wielding MacGuffin Disney Villain Death Defiant to the End Guile Hero Scenery Gorn Christmas Movies Index Eiffel Tower Effect Rule of Three Comically Missing the Point I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The Reveal Evil Counterpart Vomit Indiscretion Shot Show Within a Show An Arm and a Leg Bald of Evil Honor Before Reason Disguised in Drag Mood Whiplash The Brute How We Got Here Ambiguous Disorder Taking the Bullet In the Back Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Body Horror Rated M for Manly Gold Digger Dogged Nice Guy O.O.C. Is Serious Business Manchild Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Award-Bait Song Groin Attack He Knows Too Much Happily Married Despair Event Horizon Evil Laugh Cat Scare Animal Title Index Pretty in Mink Stylistic Suck Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Psychological Thriller Paper-Thin Disguise Gratuitous English Artistic License – History Eyepatch of Power Foil Dropped a Bridge on Him The Chick Fanservice "Well Done, Son!" Guy He Who Fights Monsters Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Undying Loyalty It's All About Me Woman Scorned Chase Scene All There in the Manual Deal with the Devil Pre-Mortem One-Liner Does This Remind You of Anything? Implacable Man Oh, Crap! Heel Realization Demonic Possession Madness Mantra Pragmatic Villainy The Bully The End... Or Is It? Gorn Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Epic Fail Smug Snake Mighty Whitey From Bad to Worse Composite Character Leitmotif Here We Go Again! Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Dark Is Not Evil Unwitting Instigator of Doom Shown Their Work Adaptation Name Change Call-Forward Offscreen Moment of Awesome Defrosting Ice Queen Hero Antagonist My Beloved Smother Hell Is That Noise Adaptation Dye-Job Nice Hat Cool Old Guy As You Know Friend to All Children Science Fiction Films Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Horror Comedy Precision F-Strike The Lancer Animal Motifs Badass Grandpa Funny Background Event Slashed Throat Self-Deprecation Cat Fight Loophole Abuse Adult Fear Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Logo Joke Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Reality Is Unrealistic Action Survivor Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Maybe Ever After Extreme Doormat Documentary Bloody Hilarious Dark and Troubled Past Took a Level in Badass Redemption Equals Death Taking You with Me Beauty Is Never Tarnished Ghost Fiction Face–Heel Turn French Films Creepy Child Brutal Honesty Cloudcuckoolander Intergenerational Friendship Soundtrack Dissonance Italian Films Meaningful Echo Shower Scene Ragtag Bunch of Misfits A Date with Rosie Palms Stock Footage Canon Foreigner Hoist by His Own Petard Politically Incorrect Villain Bi the Way Darkest Hour Apocalypse How Becoming the Mask Your Cheating Heart Badass Longcoat Arc Words Be Careful What You Wish For The Faceless Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Failed a Spot Check Four-Temperament Ensemble Broken Pedestal "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Dumb Blonde Diabolus ex Machina Leave the Camera Running Shell-Shocked Veteran Meaningful Background Event Cool Car Drowning My Sorrows Papa Wolf Animated Credits Opening Made of Iron Book-Ends Never Trust a Trailer Dying Moment of Awesome timeperiod Re-Cut The Oner No Antagonist Adaptational Villainy Dirty Old Man The Stoic The Alleged Car Improvised Weapon No Name Given Russian Films Spiteful Spit Wicked Cultured Very Loosely Based on a True Story Running Gag Chekhov's Gun She's Got Legs Say My Name Deliberate Values Dissonance Bloodier and Gorier Hypocritical Humor Blackmail Based on a True Story Word of God Mama Bear Dull Surprise Credits Gag Men Are the Expendable Gender Armor-Piercing Question From Nobody to Nightmare Wounded Gazelle Gambit Developing Doomed Characters Parental Incest Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Red Right Hand Adaptational Attractiveness Sacrificial Lion Real Life Writes the Plot Artistic License – Military Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Refuge in Audacity Deconstruction Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Worthy Opponent Revenge Empathic Environment Fainting Take a Third Option Combat Pragmatist It Will Never Catch On Horror Films Badass Boast Woman in White Funny Foreigner Dirty Cop Japanese Films Dwindling Party The Starscream The Dragon Hero of Another Story Card-Carrying Villain Race Lift Visual Pun Air-Vent Passageway Smoking Is Cool Determinator Product Placement Break the Cutie Non-Indicative Name Scary Black Man Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Fan Disservice Unresolved Sexual Tension Not What It Looks Like Toplessness from the Back A God Am I Annoying Younger Sibling Anguished Declaration of Love Bloodless Carnage Aluminum Christmas Trees Adapted Out Serious Business Authority Equals Asskicking The Quiet One Creative Closing Credits Punctuated! For! Emphasis! The Lost Lenore Double Entendre Villainous Breakdown Red Eyes, Take Warning Love Triangle The Bad Guy Wins Room Full of Crazy Love at First Sight Martial Arts Movie The Cavalry Did Not Get the Girl Motor Mouth Stepford Smiler Big Bad Duumvirate Throwing Your Sword Always Works Bowdlerise Fate Worse than Death Anachronic Order Morality Pet Suspiciously Specific Denial Stuff Blowing Up Scenery Porn Superhero Parental Neglect Never Found the Body Asshole Victim Driven to Suicide Get Out! Cassandra Truth Major Injury Underreaction Only a Flesh Wound This Is Gonna Suck Take That! Chekhov's Gunman Sports Stories Retirony Obviously Evil Freeze-Frame Bonus Amusing Injuries No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Bait-and-Switch The '60s Villain with Good Publicity Cain and Abel It Can Think Early Installment Weirdness Informed Ability Bittersweet Ending Karmic Death Those Two Bad Guys Improbable Weapon User Leaning on the Fourth Wall Jitter Cam Not Even Bothering with the Accent Irony Public Domain Feature Films Not Using the "Z" Word Villain Ball Auto Erotica Would Hurt a Child Death by Irony Overprotective Dad Trailers Always Spoil Genre Shift Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Fat Bastard Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Sir Swears-a-Lot Greater-Scope Villain Male Gaze Psychopathic Manchild Pragmatic Adaptation Death of a Child Big Bad Deadpan Snarker I Did What I Had to Do World of Ham Crazy-Prepared Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Death Glare German Films Fingore Light Is Not Good Needs Wiki Magic Love The Mole Last-Name Basis Adaptational Badass Gone Horribly Right A Father to His Men Disney Death Even Evil Has Standards Vacation Films Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Screw This, I'm Outta Here! All for Nothing Does Not Like Shoes Vitriolic Best Buds Famous Last Words Dark Action Girl Back from the Dead Central Theme Curse Cut Short Extremely Short Timespan Important Haircut Punch-Clock Villain Mystery and Detective Films You Have Failed Me Anyone Can Die "Shaggy Dog" Story Artistic License – Geography Took a Level in Jerkass Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Reality Has No Subtitles Chewing the Scenery Insult Backfire La Résistance Black Comedy Rape Nothing Is Scarier Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Rousing Speech She Cleans Up Nicely Military and Warfare Films Pimped-Out Dress The Voiceless N-Word Privileges Only One Name folderlabel Red Shirt Not So Different Mercy Kill Redshirt Army The Ace Camera Abuse Adorkable Black Best Friend Alliterative Name Even Evil Has Loved Ones Silence Is Golden Older Than They Look Hope Spot Hidden Depths An Axe to Grind Sequel Escalation Cluster F-Bomb Well-Intentioned Extremist Slap-Slap-Kiss Evil-Detecting Dog Red Oni, Blue Oni Decoy Protagonist Obfuscating Stupidity Country Matters Fiery Redhead Damsel in Distress Femme Fatale The Film of the Book Black Dude Dies First Corrupt Corporate Executive Cool Guns Eagleland Brother–Sister Incest Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome I'm a Humanitarian My Greatest Failure Rape as Drama Sanity Slippage Fire-Forged Friends Would Hit a Girl B-Movie Ship Tease Bland-Name Product Ascended Extra Facial Horror Vampire Fiction Scare Chord And Starring Off with His Head! Straight Gay For the Evulz Jerk with a Heart of Gold Amoral Attorney