Tropescilloscope: No Name Given

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Reality Is Unrealistic Exactly What It Says on the Tin Death by Adaptation Bland-Name Product Friend to All Children Camp Gay Action Girl Jerk Jock Corrupt Corporate Executive Ms. Fanservice Neck Lift Bolivian Army Ending Grievous Bottley Harm Time Skip Dogged Nice Guy Unreliable Narrator No Ending Running Gag Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Femme Fatale The Mafia Leitmotif The Bully Corpsing Action Survivor Smug Snake Not So Stoic Cat Fight Dies Wide Open Totally Radical Oh, Crap! 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Catch-Phrase Central Theme Faking the Dead O.O.C. Is Serious Business Plot Hole Credits Gag Precision F-Strike Obviously Evil Aside Glance Beauty Is Never Tarnished Taking the Bullet Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Badass in a Nice Suit Eldritch Abomination Interrupted Suicide Does Not Like Shoes Suspiciously Specific Denial Hope Spot Expository Hairstyle Change Nothing Is Scarier Red Oni, Blue Oni Butt-Monkey Crucified Hero Shot Bottomless Magazines Big Brother Instinct Blatant Lies Due to the Dead Pretty in Mink Only Known by Their Nickname Curse Cut Short "Awesome McCool" Name The Sociopath Mood Whiplash Actually Pretty Funny Continuity Nod Call-Back Stuff Blowing Up Kids Are Cruel Sinister Minister Fun with Acronyms Only One Name Scenery Porn Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Pragmatic Villainy Dual Wielding Missing Mom Vomit Discretion Shot Shipper on Deck Romantic Comedy Taking You with Me Overly Long Gag War Is Hell Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Instant Death Bullet Scary Black Man Despair Event Horizon The Alcoholic Back from the Dead Authority Equals Asskicking Disguised in Drag Pragmatic Adaptation Silence Is Golden Villain Ball Large Ham Based on a True Story Half the Man He Used to Be Parental Neglect Not So Different Thriller Truth in Television timeperiod Humiliation Conga Sci-Fi Horror Cool Shades Adaptation Distillation Pay Evil unto Evil Vomit Indiscretion Shot Diabolus ex Machina Animal Motifs Accidental Murder Never My Fault Children Are Innocent Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Darker and Edgier Damsel in Distress Dull Surprise Sacrificial Lion Kick the Dog A.I. Is a Crapshoot Adaptational Badass Chekhov's Gun Death of a Child Country Matters Villainous Breakdown Knife Nut Henpecked Husband Those Two Guys Heterosexual Life-Partners Get Out! Monumental Damage Black Comedy Rape All Girls Want Bad Boys Abusive Parents Off-into-the-Distance Ending Ambiguously Gay Romantic False Lead Only in It for the Money Retcon Daylight Horror Catapult Nightmare Fanservice It Can Think Male Frontal Nudity Only a Flesh Wound Index of Film Westerns Sir Swears-a-Lot BFG Psychopathic Manchild Fantasy Films Say My Name Death Glare Batman Gambit Manchild Wicked Cultured And Starring You Killed My Father The End... Or Is It? 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Villain Song Historical Villain Upgrade Anachronic Order Heroic BSoD Kubrick Stare Sexy Discretion Shot Driven to Suicide Adaptational Villainy Shirtless Scene Martial Arts Movie Pimped-Out Dress Race Lift He Who Fights Monsters Film Noir What Happened to the Mouse? Blackmail Victoria's Secret Compartment The Voiceless Body Horror Belligerent Sexual Tension Horror Films Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Guy Motor Mouth Card-Carrying Villain Accidental Misnaming It's All About Me Anti-Villain Mexican Standoff Those Two Bad Guys Shell-Shocked Veteran Fan Disservice Poor Communication Kills Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Attempted Rape Loads and Loads of Characters Real Life Writes the Plot Amoral Attorney As the Good Book Says... The Bad Guy Wins Rape as Drama Bowdlerise Wrong Genre Savvy Shut Up, Hannibal! The Ghost What the Hell, Hero? Adults Are Useless Homage Evil vs. Evil Psycho for Hire Tagline Artistic License – Military Bavarian Fire Drill Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Bound and Gagged The Vamp Early Installment Weirdness Your Head A-Splode Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Punny Name Epic Fail Rich Bitch Well-Intentioned Extremist Nice Hat