Tropescilloscope: Neck Lift

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