Tropescilloscope: Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!

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