Tropescilloscope: Moment Killer

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