Tropescilloscope: Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!

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Is a Crapshoot Jerk with a Heart of Gold Amusing Injuries Canon Foreigner Fish out of Water Awesome, but Impractical Death by Irony Retcon Leaning on the Fourth Wall Half the Man He Used to Be Pretty Little Headshots Cluster F-Bomb He Who Fights Monsters I Want My Beloved to Be Happy All Girls Want Bad Boys Wicked Cultured Make It Look Like an Accident Horror Comedy Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Big Bad Duumvirate Back from the Dead Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Smoking Is Cool Offscreen Teleportation Henpecked Husband Australian Movies Fatal Family Photo Beta Couple Fantasy Films Wham Line My Greatest Failure All Just a Dream Heroic Sacrifice Country Matters Intrepid Reporter Mundane Made Awesome Death Glare Leave the Camera Running Hooker with a Heart of Gold Depraved Bisexual The Casanova Blood Knight Film Noir Index Russian Films Manchild Anachronic Order Drugs Are Bad Made of Iron She's Got Legs Not Using the "Z" Word Earn Your Happy Ending The Brute Fan Disservice Canadian Movies Pet the Dog Bunny-Ears Lawyer Face Death with Dignity Destination Defenestration Stealth Pun A Date with Rosie Palms Dropped a Bridge on Him Hypocritical Humor Actor Allusion Works Set in World War II Pretty in Mink Dark Is Not Evil Rape as Drama Casting Gag Chase Scene Ass Shove The Bully Accidental Misnaming Off-into-the-Distance Ending Babies Ever After British Films No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Faux Affably Evil Broken Aesop What Happened to the Mouse? 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