Tropescilloscope: Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!

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Is Serious Business No Name Given Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience The Dog Bites Back Affably Evil Ambiguous Ending Corpsing Badass Grandpa Closed Circle Vitriolic Best Buds Biopic Blackmail Running Gag Ascended Extra Foreshadowing Only Known by Their Nickname Serial Killer Slashed Throat The Great Depression The Faceless Tap on the Head Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Maybe Ever After Redemption Equals Death No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Stalker with a Crush Chewing the Scenery Book-Ends Heel Realization Fingore Fake Shemp Tranquil Fury Downer Ending Cluster F-Bomb The Reveal Television Movie Index Evil Is Petty Insult Backfire Unresolved Sexual Tension Catapult Nightmare Adaptational Heroism Butt-Monkey Green-Eyed Monster Manchild Faking the Dead Martial Arts Movie Would Hit a Girl Advertised Extra Kids Are Cruel Drives Like Crazy My God, What Have I Done? 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The Big Guy Conspicuous CG Rule of Symbolism Motor Mouth Rule of Cool Only Sane Man Everyone Has Standards Pragmatic Villainy Four-Temperament Ensemble Developing Doomed Characters Men Are the Expendable Gender Laser-Guided Karma Annoying Younger Sibling Black Dude Dies First Villainous Breakdown Villain Ball Bad Boss Calling the Old Man Out The Alleged Car Implacable Man Sequel Hook Soundtrack Dissonance Beta Couple Does Not Like Shoes Bring My Brown Pants Superhero Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The '70s Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Disney Death The Hero Dies Heroic BSoD Setting Update Loads and Loads of Characters Obviously Evil Politically Incorrect Villain Contrived Coincidence Chekhov's Skill Cool Old Guy Based on a True Story Mistaken for Gay Ironic Echo Title Drop Badass Boast Broken Pedestal The Quiet One 20 Minutes into the Future Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Body Horror Bald of Evil Properly Paranoid Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Children Are Innocent Adapted Out Credits Gag Not So Stoic The Ace Imagine Spot Plot Hole Major Injury Underreaction Crazy Jealous Guy Rule of Funny Freeze-Frame Bonus Insistent Terminology There Is No Kill Like Overkill Fatal Flaw Didn't Think This Through Red Right Hand Made of Iron Leaning on the Fourth Wall Cruel and Unusual Death folderlabel Only in It for the Money The Lancer Better to Die than Be Killed Dogged Nice Guy Put on a Bus Dramatic Irony Plucky Comic Relief Epic Movie Military and Warfare Films Slap-Slap-Kiss Corrupt Corporate Executive Half the Man He Used to Be Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Knife Nut Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Jitter Cam NO INDOOR VOICE My Beloved Smother Even Evil Has Standards Video Credits Toplessness from the Back Very Loosely Based on a True Story Hell Is That Noise Crapsack World "Well Done, Son!" Guy Funny Background Event The Ditz Recycled IN SPACE! 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Epilogue Hong Kong Films Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The Mafia Make It Look Like an Accident Fire-Forged Friends Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Ax-Crazy Reality Ensues Bond Villain Stupidity Rewatch Bonus A Minor Kidroduction Logo Joke Cool Guns Psychological Thriller Irony Demoted to Extra Psychopathic Manchild Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Black Comedy Exact Words Greater-Scope Villain Rousing Speech Your Cheating Heart Back from the Dead Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Bond One-Liner Artistic License – Gun Safety Only a Flesh Wound Offscreen Moment of Awesome Noodle Incident In Name Only Cool Shades Never My Fault Fiery Redhead Nothing Is Scarier Manly Tears Historical-Domain Character Camera Abuse Brutal Honesty Card-Carrying Villain Mundane Made Awesome Pyrrhic Victory Chase Scene Protagonist Title Not So Above It All Bunny-Ears Lawyer Action Girl Heroic Sacrifice The Alcoholic Adult Fear Alliterative Name Those Wacky Nazis Artistic License – Geography Double-Meaning Title