Tropescilloscope: Not So Above It All

When the serious-minded, no-fun Straight Man has maintained dignity with a straight face suddenly relaxes and joins in the fun. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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No Name Given All for Nothing Informed Ability Blatant Lies Beauty Is Never Tarnished Distracted by the Sexy Loads and Loads of Characters Adaptational Attractiveness Crazy-Prepared Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Redshirt Army Australian Movies Arch-Enemy Early Installment Weirdness Rewatch Bonus Insult Backfire Tranquil Fury La Résistance The Smart Guy Dark Reprise Rasputinian Death Wounded Gazelle Gambit Gorn Dark Action Girl Self-Deprecation In the Back Darker and Edgier Wretched Hive The Chick Rule of Symbolism Throwing Your Sword Always Works Sequel Escalation Dual Wielding Too Dumb to Live Body Horror Big Damn Heroes Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Depraved Bisexual Kick the Son of a Bitch The Hero For the Evulz Berserk Button Fiery Redhead Men Are the Expendable Gender Noodle Incident Music Stories Fanservice Despair Event Horizon Jump Scare Hell Is That Noise Guile Hero Evil Plan Car Fu Beard of Evil Product Placement Very Loosely Based on a True Story My Greatest Failure The Lancer Gory Discretion Shot Taking the Bullet She's Got Legs Killed Mid-Sentence Butt-Monkey Black Comedy Rape Retcon Bring My Brown Pants Dirty Old Man You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Not So Above It All Green-Eyed Monster Mugging the Monster Badass Grandpa Pretty Little Headshots Villainous Breakdown A Father to His Men Adaptational Heroism Soft Glass Mad Scientist Unusual Euphemism Suddenly SHOUTING! Naïve Newcomer Psycho for Hire Girl-on-Girl Is Hot "Well Done, Son!" Guy Leitmotif Chewing the Scenery Improbable Weapon User Greater-Scope Villain Never Trust a Trailer Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Artistic License – Gun Safety Stock Footage A Date with Rosie Palms Attempted Rape '80s Hair Anti-Villain Word of God Genre Savvy Author Appeal Bar Brawl Vomit Discretion Shot Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Credits Gag Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Red Eyes, Take Warning Based on a True Story Shipper on Deck Curse Cut Short Fake Shemp Artistic License – Biology Get Out! Chekhov's Gunman Sci-Fi Horror Historical-Domain Character Logo Joke Hero Antagonist Retirony Heroes Want Redheads Take That! Show Within a Show British Films Intergenerational Friendship Rule of Three Freeze-Frame Bonus Breaking the Fourth Wall Mistaken for Gay Kids Are Cruel Film Noir Index Arc Words Kubrick Stare Politically Incorrect Villain Spiritual Successor Kill 'em All Armor-Piercing Question Training Montage Meaningful Background Event Mr. Exposition Drugs Are Bad Paper-Thin Disguise Punny Name Disney Villain Death Empathic Environment Implacable Man Bowdlerise Mr. Fanservice Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Jerk Jock Bloodless Carnage Comically Missing the Point Outrun the Fireball The Remake Rule of Cool Ascended Extra Alliterative Name Four-Temperament Ensemble Dull Surprise All Just a Dream Science Fiction Films Once More, with Clarity! Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Domestic Abuse The Oner My God, What Have I Done? Accidental Misnaming What the Hell, Hero? 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Totally Radical Double-Meaning Title Beta Couple Parental Neglect Captain Obvious It Can Think Parental Abandonment Becoming the Mask Morality Pet Dressing as the Enemy Ms. Fanservice Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Skewed Priorities All Girls Want Bad Boys Knife Nut The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Hoist by His Own Petard Love at First Sight Adaptation Name Change Improbable Aiming Skills Precision F-Strike Genre Shift It's Personal Abusive Parents Public Domain Feature Films Parental Incest Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Determinator Big Bad Duumvirate Cool Shades Spanner in the Works Deliberate Values Dissonance Man on Fire Sealed Evil in a Can No Antagonist Race Against the Clock The Casanova Room Full of Crazy Smoking Is Cool Accidental Murder Affably Evil Adapted Out Celebrity Paradox O.O.C. 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Genre Throwback The Great Depression Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Downer Ending Humiliation Conga The '70s The Ace Gilligan Cut Animated Credits Opening Adults Are Useless After the End Femme Fatale Adaptation Dye-Job Historical Villain Upgrade The '60s Taking You with Me Author Avatar Disproportionate Retribution Riddle for the Ages An Axe to Grind Market-Based Title An Aesop And I Must Scream Unreliable Narrator "Awesome McCool" Name Mama Bear Friend to All Children Pre-Mortem One-Liner Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Bare Your Midriff Face Death with Dignity Dark and Troubled Past Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Obfuscating Stupidity Dogged Nice Guy Worthy Opponent Eiffel Tower Effect Poor Communication Kills Manchild Ungrateful Bastard Happily Married Loophole Abuse Fantastic Racism Villain Song True Companions Obstructive Bureaucrat Establishing Character Moment Match Cut Cluster F-Bomb Adorkable Nice Hat Revenge An Arm and a Leg Determinator aka: The Determinator The Starscream Contrived Coincidence Actually Pretty Funny Crucified Hero Shot Easily Forgiven Really Gets Around Expository Hairstyle Change Hollywood Law Badass Bookworm Bad "Bad Acting" Back from the Dead Bolivian Army Ending Last-Name Basis Badass Longcoat Fanservice Extra Together in Death Off-into-the-Distance Ending Adaptational Villainy Needs Wiki Magic Love Refuge in Audacity Ominous Latin Chanting Kick the Dog Line-of-Sight Name Sassy Black Woman Mythology Gag Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Only in It for the Money Meaningful Echo Air-Vent Passageway From Nobody to Nightmare Ironic Echo Gratuitous English Wrong Genre Savvy The Vamp Wham Shot Smug Snake Tap on the Head Male Frontal Nudity The Mole Action Genre Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Suspiciously Specific Denial Sinister Minister Gone Horribly Right Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism There Is No Kill Like Overkill Big Fancy House Sir Swears-a-Lot Cowboy Cop Bond Villain Stupidity Antagonist Title Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Is a Crapshoot A Minor Kidroduction Biopic Idiot Ball Pet the Dog Title Drop Better to Die than Be Killed Funny Background Event Reality Has No Subtitles In Name Only Toplessness from the Back Facial Horror Framing Device Playing Gertrude Artistic License – Physics The Load Evil Laugh Deadpan Snarker Light Is Not Good Fatal Flaw Funny Foreigner Cat Fight I Have Your Wife Character Development As the Good Book Says... Homage Chase Scene Costume Porn Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Fish out of Water Sports Stories Deus ex Machina One-Word Title Woman in White Trailers Always Spoil The Big Guy Red Right Hand Russian Films Nice Guy Ax-Crazy As Long as It Sounds Foreign Pragmatic Adaptation Drives Like Crazy Heroic BSoD The Ditz Groin Attack Scary Black Man Hidden Depths Slasher Smile Children Are Innocent Almost Kiss Dying Moment of Awesome Same Language Dub Stealth Pun Badass in a Nice Suit Off with His Head! 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Anguished Declaration of Love Guns Akimbo Deconstruction The Place Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold She Cleans Up Nicely The Musical Plucky Comic Relief Your Cheating Heart Improvised Weapon Only Sane Man Kill It with Fire Interrupted Suicide Race Lift Eagleland Asshole Victim How We Got Here Demonic Possession Action Prologue Gold Digger Freudian Excuse Brutal Honesty Fat Bastard Bunny-Ears Lawyer Random Events Plot Our Zombies Are Different folderlabel The Quiet One Those Wacky Nazis Big Brother Instinct The '90s Broken Bird Would Hurt a Child Made of Iron World of Ham Punch-Clock Villain Bond One-Liner Mind Screw Faking the Dead Catapult Nightmare Sadistic Choice Pretty in Mink The Stoner Stalker with a Crush Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Intrepid Reporter Decoy Protagonist Big Applesauce Dumb Blonde Reality Is Unrealistic Pay Evil unto Evil Papa Wolf Evil Sounds Deep Dissonant Serenity Thriller Never My Fault He Who Fights Monsters Meaningful Name Red Shirt I'm a Humanitarian Heel Realization He Knows Too Much Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Adaptation Expansion Neck Lift Chekhov's Gun Deal with the Devil Corrupt Corporate Executive War Is Hell Romantic Comedy Casting Gag Put on a Bus Maybe Ever After "The Reason You Suck" Speech Death by Irony Made of Explodium Stealth Hi/Bye Age Lift Suspiciously Similar Substitute Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Narrator Slap-Slap-Kiss Shoot the Shaggy Dog BFG Martial Arts Movie Token Minority Bad Boss "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Police are Useless Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Protagonist Title Babies Ever After The Brute Rich Bitch A God Am I Awesome, but Impractical Spared by the Adaptation Agony of the Feet Cool Car