Tropescilloscope: N-Word Privileges

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Is a Crapshoot Instant Death Bullet Bowdlerise Works Set in World War II Laser-Guided Karma Camp Gay Bloodier and Gorier Shown Their Work Retirony Hong Kong Films Mama Bear Frame-Up The Chessmaster Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Loads and Loads of Characters Determinator aka: The Determinator Manly Tears Artistic License – History Hidden Depths Thriller Crucified Hero Shot Intrepid Reporter Sinister Minister Dark and Troubled Past Deus ex Machina Rasputinian Death Cool Guns Peek-a-Boo Corpse For Want of a Nail Unwitting Instigator of Doom Facial Horror Not What It Looks Like Made of Iron Psychological Thriller Reality Ensues Badass Normal Last-Name Basis Word of God Implacable Man Freudian Excuse Composite Character Bolivian Army Ending Dramatic Gun Cock Red Shirt Room Full of Crazy Kick the Dog Sci-Fi Horror Adaptational Heroism Punch-Clock Villain N-Word Privileges Redshirt Army Foreshadowing Mercy Kill Batman Gambit The Lancer The Bad Guy Wins Horror Films Hypocritical Humor Bait-and-Switch "The Reason You Suck" Speech Big "NO!" 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Ominous Latin Chanting Posthumous Character In the Back The '80s Parental Substitute Never My Fault Artistic License – Law A God Am I Villain with Good Publicity Refuge in Audacity An Aesop Gender Flip Improbable Aiming Skills Toplessness from the Back "Awesome McCool" Name Only Known by Their Nickname Hero Antagonist Henpecked Husband Accidental Misnaming Mugging the Monster The Mole Bond One-Liner The Dog Bites Back Guns Akimbo Gilligan Cut Black Comedy Rape The Quiet One Big Bad Duumvirate Wrong Genre Savvy Black Best Friend Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Ship Tease Eureka Moment Car Fu Animal Motifs Brick Joke Documentary Oh, Crap! Heroic Sacrifice Horror Comedy I Did What I Had to Do Beware the Nice Ones timeperiod BFG Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Dropped a Bridge on Him Serial Killer Laughing Mad Disguised in Drag Beauty Is Never Tarnished Destination Defenestration Adult Fear Fat Bastard Romantic False Lead All There in the Script Insult Backfire Scary Black Man More Dakka Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Those Wacky Nazis Novelization Beta Couple Mad Scientist I Need a Freaking Drink The Alleged Car Military and Warfare Films Groin Attack Drowning My Sorrows Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Authority Equals Asskicking Dissonant Serenity The Stinger As the Good Book Says... The Stoner Cain and Abel Needs Wiki Magic Love Author Avatar Here We Go Again! The Chick Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Artistic License – Biology Irony Ass Shove Chewing the Scenery Department of Redundancy Department Breaking the Fourth Wall Off-into-the-Distance Ending All Men Are Perverts Kids Are Cruel Sanity Slippage Camera Abuse Australian Movies Closed Circle Race Lift Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Author Appeal Up to Eleven Ms. Fanservice Fantastic Racism Storming the Castle Eldritch Abomination Properly Paranoid Casting Gag Race Against the Clock Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Line-of-Sight Name What You Are in the Dark Alliterative Name Hoist by His Own Petard Twist Ending Evil Laugh Only Sane Man Card-Carrying Villain I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Arc Words O.O.C. Is Serious Business Drugs Are Bad Pretty Little Headshots Bond Villain Stupidity The Remake Cool Old Guy Missing Mom Leave the Camera Running Cat Fight Badass Bookworm Bloody Hilarious Spanner in the Works Love Triangle Crazy-Prepared Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? What Happened to the Mouse? Adaptational Villainy Suddenly SHOUTING! Riddle for the Ages Too Dumb to Live The Load Match Cut Auto Erotica Film Noir The Power of Love Hypocrite Defrosting Ice Queen All Just a Dream Break the Haughty Sequel Hook Mood Whiplash Boom, Headshot! Police are Useless Actually Pretty Funny Bad Boss Wham Line Decoy Protagonist Psychopathic Manchild Russian Films Darkest Hour Woman Scorned Serious Business Motor Mouth The Lost Lenore Curse Cut Short You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Sassy Black Woman Book-Ends Scenery Gorn Death Seeker Foil Creepy Child The Alcoholic One-Word Title Easily Forgiven Your Head A-Splode Brother–Sister Incest Cool Old Lady Maybe Ever After "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue MacGuffin Punny Name Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Loophole Abuse Death Glare Does Not Like Shoes Take a Third Option Canadian Movies Defiant to the End Made of Explodium Getting Crap Past the Radar Antagonist Title Unusually Uninteresting Sight The Reveal Fish out of Water Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Attempted Rape It Can Think Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Age Lift Celebrity Paradox Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Take That! Catapult Nightmare Anachronism Stew No Antagonist Once More, with Clarity! 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Guy Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Advertised Extra Pet the Dog One Steve Limit Fanservice Pre-Mortem One-Liner Continuity Nod Corrupt Corporate Executive Our Zombies Are Different Chekhov's Gun Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Offscreen Moment of Awesome Not Quite Dead Early Installment Weirdness Plucky Comic Relief Kill It with Fire Mr. Exposition May–December Romance Fatal Flaw Comically Missing the Point Homage You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Evil Is Petty Manchild Historical Villain Upgrade Pimped-Out Dress Better to Die than Be Killed Would Hit a Girl Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Mythology Gag Body Horror Names to Run Away from Really Fast Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Undying Loyalty The Dreaded The '90s Ironic Echo My Greatest Failure Chiaroscuro An Axe to Grind Sole Survivor The Stoic Enemy Mine Training Montage Children Are Innocent Film Noir Index Never Trust a Trailer No OSHA Compliance Foregone Conclusion Pragmatic Villainy Darker and Edgier Annoying Younger Sibling Playing Gertrude Slashed Throat Knight Templar Those Two Guys Have a Gay Old Time Big-Bad Ensemble Disproportionate Retribution Epic Fail Vomit Indiscretion Shot Fake Shemp Politically Incorrect Villain Non-Indicative Name He Knows Too Much An Arm and a Leg All Girls Want Bad Boys Deliberately Monochrome Victoria's Secret Compartment Rule of Funny How We Got Here Mexican Standoff Self-Deprecation Rule of Three Very Loosely Based on a True Story Ghost Fiction Villain Protagonist Setting Update Wretched Hive Stepford Smiler Belligerent Sexual Tension