Tropescilloscope: Mexican Standoff

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Fate Worse than Death Male Frontal Nudity Hero of Another Story The Stoner Politically Incorrect Villain Canon Foreigner Eyepatch of Power True Companions Back from the Dead Never My Fault Funny Foreigner Mood Whiplash Spared by the Adaptation Dramatic Irony Camera Abuse Apocalypse How Reality Ensues What You Are in the Dark Small Name, Big Ego Artistic License – Physics Groin Attack Take a Third Option Annoying Younger Sibling Cloudcuckoolander Obstructive Bureaucrat Gory Discretion Shot It's All About Me Cool Old Lady N-Word Privileges The End... Or Is It? Redemption Equals Death Thriller Shut Up, Hannibal! Darkest Hour Neck Lift Jerkass Has a Point Continuity Nod Bond One-Liner Cruel and Unusual Death Body Horror You Have Failed Me Not What It Looks Like Disguised in Drag Catapult Nightmare Make It Look Like an Accident NO INDOOR VOICE Video Credits Man on Fire Only Sane Man Married to the Job Outrun the Fireball "The Reason You Suck" Speech Darker and Edgier Setting Update Four-Temperament Ensemble Grievous Bottley Harm Homage Wicked Cultured Action Girl Dirty Coward Bi the Way Tagline Men Are the Expendable Gender Historical Villain Upgrade Title Drop Big "NO!" Berserk Button Race Lift Retirony Batman Gambit Big Eater Rewatch Bonus Informed Ability Made of Iron Unspoken Plan Guarantee Canadian Movies Cat Fight Closed Circle The Atoner Left the Background Music On The Reveal Jerkass Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" The Voiceless Shirtless Scene Authority Equals Asskicking Red Herring Hollywood Law Reckless Gun Usage Bland-Name Product Reality Is Unrealistic Mercy Kill '80s Hair Wrong Genre Savvy Artistic License – History The Alcoholic Spiritual Successor Not So Above It All Made of Explodium No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Token Minority Not So Stoic The Film of the Book Worthy Opponent Slap-Slap-Kiss Action Survivor Artistic License – Biology All Just a Dream Insult Backfire The Quiet One Hong Kong Films Demoted to Extra Ghost Fiction Artistic License – Military Evil Counterpart Broken Aesop Beware the Nice Ones Unusually Uninteresting Sight Truth in Television Chewing the Scenery Hate Sink Death by Sex Sealed Evil in a Can Obfuscating Stupidity The Hero Dies Major Injury Underreaction Romantic Comedy Femme Fatale Victoria's Secret Compartment Police are Useless Expository Hairstyle Change Italian Films Pre-Mortem One-Liner Cain and Abel Heroic Sacrifice Only One Name A Date with Rosie Palms Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Fantastic Racism Improvised Weapon Mundane Made Awesome Morality Pet Evil Plan Deus ex Machina Antagonist Title Framing Device Death of a Child Historical In-Joke Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Jitter Cam German Films Big-Bad Ensemble The '90s The '80s Off with His Head! 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Large Ham Psychopathic Manchild Trailers Always Spoil Playing Gertrude Damsel in Distress Offscreen Moment of Awesome You Killed My Father Attempted Rape Rape as Drama Central Theme Faking the Dead Arc Words Butt-Monkey Naked People Are Funny Dual Wielding Arch-Enemy Chase Scene No-Sell Costume Porn Expy Hope Spot Rule of Cool Asshole Victim Mad Scientist Immune to Bullets Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Foregone Conclusion Too Dumb to Live Black Comedy Your Head A-Splode Shout-Out Training Montage Foil Needs Wiki Magic Love Fun with Acronyms All Girls Want Bad Boys Bowdlerise Sacrificial Lion The Lancer Gender Flip Genre Throwback Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Honor Before Reason Stylistic Suck An Arm and a Leg Sequel Escalation Badass Boast Vacation Films Bottomless Magazines Epic Movie Whole Plot Reference Running Gag Big Damn Heroes The Bully The Casanova Tap on the Head Historical Hero Upgrade Mexican Standoff Drill Sergeant Nasty Sassy Black Woman Five-Man Band Mighty Whitey Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Retcon Villain Protagonist Curse Cut Short Film Noir Calling the Old Man Out Those Two Bad Guys Dark Reprise Becoming the Mask Science Fiction Films A God Am I Parental Incest My God, What Have I Done? Due to the Dead Fish out of Water From Nobody to Nightmare Everyone Has Standards Cassandra Truth Imagine Spot Establishing Character Moment The Smurfette Principle The Starscream Blonde, Brunette, Redhead The '50s Deliberate Values Dissonance Ship Tease La Résistance Sequel Hook O.O.C. Is Serious Business Not Even Bothering with the Accent Index of Film Westerns Refuge in Audacity There Is No Kill Like Overkill Villain with Good Publicity Exact Words Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Action Prologue Soundtrack Dissonance Blatant Lies Aside Glance Good Is Not Nice Didn't Think This Through The Chessmaster Hell Is That Noise Get Out! Manchild Those Two Guys Cluster F-Bomb Pyrrhic Victory No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Police Brutality Creepy Child Instant Death Bullet Cool Guns Blood from the Mouth The Load For Want of a Nail Death Seeker Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Mr. Exposition Half the Man He Used to Be Punctuated! For! Emphasis! The Cavalry Poor Communication Kills Beauty Is Never Tarnished Does This Remind You of Anything? Straight Gay Meaningful Background Event This Is Gonna Suck Badass in a Nice Suit Hidden Depths Suspiciously Specific Denial Documentary Evil Brit Missing Mom Catch-Phrase Suspiciously Similar Substitute Pet the Dog Every Car Is a Pinto Heterosexual Life-Partners Paper-Thin Disguise Scenery Porn Dies Wide Open Crazy-Prepared Abusive Parents Dropped a Bridge on Him Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Dogged Nice Guy Eye Scream Card-Carrying Villain Stealth Hi/Bye And I Must Scream Scenery Gorn Author Avatar Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? She's Got Legs Market-Based Title Parental Abandonment Gorn Let's Get Dangerous! Meaningful Echo One-Man Army Obviously Evil Serial Killer Car Fu Danny Peary Cult Movies List Say My Name Noodle Incident "Awesome McCool" Name Visual Pun Animal Motifs Moment Killer Kick the Son of a Bitch Fat Bastard Developing Doomed Characters Big Bad Duumvirate Character Development No Antagonist Overly Long Gag Superhero In Name Only Gainax Ending Pretty in Mink Gilligan Cut Dutch Angle Bury Your Gays Race Against the Clock Crucified Hero Shot Adaptation Name Change Horror Films Kubrick Stare Camp Gay Determinator aka: The Determinator All There in the Manual Anyone Can Die Ominous Latin Chanting Tranquil Fury The Musical Non-Indicative Name Based on a True Story Crapsack World The Stinger BFG The Power of Love Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Beta Couple Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Up to Eleven Brick Joke What the Hell, Hero? Jump Scare Stalker with a Crush Even Evil Has Standards Enemy Mine Fourth Date Marriage A.I. Is a Crapshoot Rule of Symbolism Alpha Bitch Determinator Wounded Gazelle Gambit Rasputinian Death Eiffel Tower Effect I Need a Freaking Drink Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Older Than They Look Beard of Evil Adaptation Distillation Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Evil Is Petty Insane Troll Logic Redshirt Army Death by Irony Captain Ersatz Knife Nut Fanservice Extra Once More, with Clarity! Disproportionate Retribution Brutal Honesty Chekhov's Gun Face Death with Dignity Naïve Newcomer Funny Background Event Intergenerational Friendship Ripped from the Headlines All Men Are Perverts Big Fancy House Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Better to Die than Be Killed The Vamp Improbable Weapon User Belligerent Sexual Tension Laughing Mad The X of Y Amoral Attorney Rule of Funny Fatal Flaw Shower Scene Does Not Like Shoes Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Word of God Those Wacky Nazis Evil Is Hammy Affably Evil Kick the Dog Bad "Bad Acting" Shell-Shocked Veteran The Great Depression Dressing as the Enemy Eureka Moment Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Adaptational Attractiveness Karma Houdini Dark Action Girl Villainous Breakdown Villain Ball Hollywood Darkness Cat Scare Spanner in the Works I Have Your Wife Deadpan Snarker Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Eldritch Abomination Mugging the Monster Would Hurt a Child Works Set in World War II Not Quite Dead Real Life Writes the Plot Serious Business Freudian Excuse The Place Gone Horribly Right Conspicuous CG Big Applesauce Evil vs. Evil Bad Boss From Bad to Worse A Minor Kidroduction Only in It for the Money Skewed Priorities All There in the Script As Long as It Sounds Foreign Have a Gay Old Time Scare Chord Protagonist Title Crazy Jealous Guy Hypocrite Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Silent Movie Boom, Headshot! Death Glare Names to Run Away from Really Fast Woman Scorned Spell My Name with an "S" Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Bring My Brown Pants Celebrity Paradox One Steve Limit Last-Name Basis Author Appeal Ax-Crazy Anti-Hero Shoot the Shaggy Dog Toplessness from the Back In the Back Love Triangle Pre-Asskicking One-Liner As You Know Bavarian Fire Drill The Ace Public Domain Feature Films After the End You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Happily Married Would Hit a Girl Henpecked Husband Vomit Discretion Shot Punch-Clock Villain Auto Erotica Cold-Blooded Torture Ironic Echo Epic Fail Evil Laugh Double-Meaning Title Fire-Forged Friends Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Only a Flesh Wound Heel–Face Turn Genre Shift Children Are Innocent Insistent Terminology Totally Radical Dull Surprise Getting Crap Past the Radar How We Got Here Dramedy Self-Deprecation Twist Ending Creative Closing Credits Military and Warfare Films Ascended Extra Foreshadowing Heel Realization Grey and Gray Morality Parental Substitute I Did What I Had to Do No Celebrities Were Harmed The '70s Rousing Speech Drugs Are Bad Novelization Fainting Mistaken for Gay Captain Obvious Sir Swears-a-Lot Irony Faux Affably Evil Handicapped Badass Really Gets Around Hypocritical Humor Important Haircut It Will Never Catch On Sinister Minister Bunny-Ears Lawyer Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Brute Cool Shades Fantasy Films Humiliation Conga The Big Guy Kill It with Fire Random Events Plot The Ditz Black and Gray Morality Room Full of Crazy Guile Hero Precision F-Strike No Name Given Bait-and-Switch Time Skip Covers Always Lie Dissonant Serenity Disney Villain Death Early-Bird Cameo Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! No OSHA Compliance Bilingual Bonus Evil Sounds Deep Not Using the "Z" Word Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Disney Death Bolivian Army Ending Babies Ever After Australian Movies Daylight Horror Music Stories Karmic Death Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Aluminum Christmas Trees Implacable Man Villain Song Fatal Family Photo Nothing Is Scarier Artistic License – Gun Safety Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Badass Longcoat Lampshade Hanging Mooks Adaptational Villainy Casting Gag Pimped-Out Dress Badass Normal Friend to All Children Big Brother Instinct Cowboy Cop 20 Minutes into the Future Punny Name Sexy Discretion Shot Extreme Doormat Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Decoy Protagonist Sadistic Choice Silence Is Golden She Cleans Up Nicely Anachronic Order Riddle for the Ages Manipulative Bastard Credits Gag It Can Think Overprotective Dad Mr. Fanservice Sanity Slippage I Just Shot Marvin in the Face He Who Fights Monsters Anachronism Stew Scary Black Man Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Meaningful Name Artistic License – Geography Combat Pragmatist Daddy's Girl Department of Redundancy Department