Tropescilloscope: Neck Lift

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