Tropescilloscope: Naïve Newcomer

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Naïve Newcomer Riddle for the Ages Exactly What It Says on the Tin Sacrificial Lion A Date with Rosie Palms Mundane Made Awesome Superhero Military and Warfare Films Scary Black Man Worthy Opponent Woman Scorned Off with His Head! Red Herring Genre Savvy Sinister Minister From Bad to Worse Nothing Is Scarier Let's Get Dangerous! He Knows Too Much timeperiod Defrosting Ice Queen Hypocritical Humor Improvised Weapon Sassy Black Woman Papa Wolf Annoying Younger Sibling The Quiet One Offscreen Teleportation Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Spiritual Successor You Have Failed Me The Atoner Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Expy Moment Killer NO INDOOR VOICE Works Set in World War II Visual Pun Together in Death The Brute Overly Long Gag Those Two Guys Arch-Enemy All There in the Script Corpsing Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Evil Laugh The Smart Guy Accidental Murder Fish out of Water World of Ham Humiliation Conga Call-Forward Our Vampires Are Different Properly Paranoid May–December Romance Not So Different MacGuffin And I Must Scream Better to Die than Be Killed Cassandra Truth Villain Opening Scene Idiot Ball "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Facial Horror The Big Guy Silent Movie Unspoken Plan Guarantee The Vamp The X of Y Boom, Headshot! 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Adaptational Badass The Alcoholic Animal Title Index Curb-Stomp Battle folderlabel Pragmatic Villainy Light Is Not Good Adaptation Distillation Cloudcuckoolander Martial Arts Movie No Name Given Victoria's Secret Compartment Implacable Man No Ending Parental Abandonment The Load Chewing the Scenery Heel–Face Turn Reality Ensues Obstructive Bureaucrat Abhorrent Admirer Romantic Comedy Skewed Priorities A God Am I Gender Flip Age Lift Eye Scream Disproportionate Retribution Film Noir Index Offscreen Moment of Awesome Jump Scare Jerk with a Heart of Gold Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun O.O.C. Is Serious Business The Un-Reveal Malevolent Masked Men Batman Gambit Rousing Speech 20 Minutes into the Future Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Faux Affably Evil Informed Ability Final Girl BFG Broken Bird Mugging the Monster Adult Fear Took a Level in Jerkass Big-Bad Ensemble Japanese Films Kill 'em All Reckless Gun Usage Costume Porn Film Series Casting Gag The Dog Bites Back For Want of a Nail Australian Movies The Stoic Ripped from the Headlines Dissonant Serenity Historical-Domain Character Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Arc Words Tranquil Fury After the End Historical Hero Upgrade Mood Whiplash Paper-Thin Disguise Ax-Crazy Blackmail Agony of the Feet My God, What Have I Done? 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Names to Run Away from Really Fast Continuity Nod Meaningful Name Exact Words The Voiceless Dark Reprise Took a Level in Badass Wounded Gazelle Gambit Bullying a Dragon Due to the Dead Television Movie Index Action Genre Insistent Terminology Double Entendre Even Evil Has Standards Pragmatic Adaptation Hollywood Darkness Bar Brawl The Lost Lenore The Sociopath Rasputinian Death Stealth Hi/Bye Deconstruction As Himself The Musical I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Say My Name Toplessness from the Back Anachronism Stew Smoking Is Cool Babies Ever After Sequel Hook Male Gaze The Chessmaster Oh, Crap! 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Black Best Friend Bait-and-Switch Animated Credits Opening Sir Swears-a-Lot Mooks Drowning My Sorrows Eyepatch of Power Hypocrite Creative Closing Credits Daylight Horror Freudian Excuse Big Bad Those Two Bad Guys Shirtless Scene Police are Useless In Name Only Police Brutality Bolivian Army Ending Novelization Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Immune to Bullets Slap-Slap-Kiss Zombie Stories Dogged Nice Guy Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Brick Joke Camp Gay I Have Your Wife Psychopathic Manchild Affectionate Parody An Axe to Grind What You Are in the Dark Gratuitous English Shoot the Shaggy Dog Early Installment Weirdness Playing Gertrude Dropped a Bridge on Him You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Ironic Echo Cool Car Drives Like Crazy Peek-a-Boo Corpse Bittersweet Ending Not Using the "Z" Word Enemy Mine Smug Snake Covers Always Lie Red Eyes, Take Warning Sadistic Choice Darker and Edgier The Oner Gone Horribly Right Face–Heel Turn The Power of Love Karmic Death Big Bad Duumvirate N-Word Privileges I Did What I Had to Do Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Rule of Symbolism Central Theme Betty and Veronica Hero Antagonist The Casanova Sci-Fi Horror Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Soft Glass Heroes Want Redheads The Bully Shown Their Work "The Reason You Suck" Speech Ms. Fanservice The Chick Affably Evil Frame-Up Disney Villain Death No OSHA Compliance Suspiciously Specific Denial Antagonist Title Destination Defenestration Freeze-Frame Bonus Hoist by His Own Petard Kick the Son of a Bitch A Minor Kidroduction Not What It Looks Like Sexy Discretion Shot Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Deliberately Monochrome Anti-Hero Car Fu Failed a Spot Check Scenery Gorn Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Race Against the Clock Historical In-Joke Captain Obvious Foregone Conclusion She's Got Legs Four-Temperament Ensemble Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Up to Eleven Knight Templar One-Word Title Chekhov's Gunman Bound and Gagged Break the Haughty Extremely Short Timespan Artistic License – Gun Safety Male Frontal Nudity Insult Backfire Dying Moment of Awesome Fanservice Guile Hero Badass Longcoat Break the Cutie Bunny-Ears Lawyer Irony Villain Protagonist Needs Wiki Magic Love In Medias Res Mexican Standoff Only Known by Their Nickname As Long as It Sounds Foreign Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Dumb Blonde Mama Bear Femme Fatale Stylistic Suck Ambiguous Ending Anti-Villain Slasher Smile Arranged Marriage Big Fancy House Darkest Hour Dark Is Not Evil Your Cheating Heart Face Death with Dignity Off-into-the-Distance Ending Eldritch Abomination Product Placement Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Neck Snap Important Haircut Manly Tears Action Girl Instant Death Bullet Girl-on-Girl Is Hot British Films Tap on the Head Thriller Our Zombies Are Different Documentary Cowboy Cop Lighter and Softer Redshirt Army The Dreaded No-Holds-Barred Beatdown War Is Hell Pretty Little Headshots Greater-Scope Villain Empathic Environment Intergenerational Friendship Science Fiction Films Death by Sex Fake Shemp A.I. Is a Crapshoot Sequel Escalation Pyrrhic Victory Diabolus ex Machina In the Back Obfuscating Stupidity The Great Depression It Will Never Catch On Punny Name Animal Motifs Funny Background Event Action Prologue Wham Line "Shaggy Dog" Story Tempting Fate Too Dumb to Live Neck Lift The Starscream Blood from the Mouth The Hero Dies Man on Fire Artistic License – Military Belligerent Sexual Tension Here We Go Again! Madness Mantra Re-Cut Determinator Vampire Fiction Funny Foreigner Real Life Punch-Clock Villain Death Glare Retirony Hollywood Law Have a Gay Old Time Shower Scene Aside Glance Famous Last Words Blood Knight Pimped-Out Dress Parental Substitute Take That! The Place Take a Third Option The Ditz Not Even Bothering with the Accent Badass Normal Russian Films Gilligan Cut Gorn Credits Gag Big Damn Heroes Dramatic Irony Dutch Angle Wrong Genre Savvy Sanity Slippage Gold Digger Left the Background Music On Humans Are Bastards Shell-Shocked Veteran Wretched Hive Composite Character What Happened to the Mouse? 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Loophole Abuse Black Dude Dies First Drugs Are Bad All Men Are Perverts Disney Death Brainless Beauty Deliberate Values Dissonance Retired Badass Mythology Gag Artistic License – Law Leitmotif Mistaken for Gay Does Not Like Shoes Kids Are Cruel Bottomless Magazines Lock and Load Montage True Companions Auto Erotica Sealed Evil in a Can Meaningful Echo Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Alliterative Name Setting Update Catch-Phrase Ass Shove Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Laser-Guided Karma Whole Plot Reference Damsel in Distress Meet Cute What the Hell, Hero? Curse Cut Short Killed Mid-Sentence Video Credits Logo Joke Trailers Always Spoil No Antagonist Bond Villain Stupidity Real Life Writes the Plot Authority Equals Asskicking The '70s Film Noir Easily Forgiven Rule of Funny Rich Bitch Green-Eyed Monster Spared by the Adaptation Hooker with a Heart of Gold Parental Incest Pet the Dog Canon Foreigner Same Language Dub Even Evil Has Loved Ones Older Than They Look Manic Pixie Dream Girl Happily Married Throwing Your Sword Always Works Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Bland-Name Product Those Wacky Nazis The Mole Protagonist Title Rule of Cool Every Car Is a Pinto Plucky Comic Relief Plot Hole Anguished Declaration of Love Leaning on the Fourth Wall Five-Man Band Stock Footage Adapted Out Grievous Bottley Harm Match Cut There Is No Kill Like Overkill Bad Boss Silence Is Golden Roaring Rampage of Revenge Mystery and Detective Films The '80s Becoming the Mask Noodle Incident Creator Cameo Hero of Another Story Small Name, Big Ego Ship Tease Epic Movie Daddy's Girl The Cavalry Awesome, but Impractical Mr. Fanservice Rape as Drama Only One Name Beard of Evil Did Not Get the Girl Author Appeal Hair-Trigger Temper Politically Incorrect Villain Apocalypse How Unreliable Narrator Cruel and Unusual Death Didn't Think This Through Cluster F-Bomb Evil-Detecting Dog Tagline Faking the Dead La Résistance Ominous Latin Chanting German Films Villain Ball Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Disappeared Dad Honor Before Reason Totally Radical Not Quite Dead Dull Surprise Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Never My Fault Black Comedy Rape Almost Kiss Fainting Index of Film Westerns Brutal Honesty Genre Throwback Red Oni, Blue Oni Good Is Not Nice Would Hurt a Child Actually Pretty Funny Unusual Euphemism Chase Scene