Tropescilloscope: Obfuscating Stupidity

Smart enough to intentionally act dumb. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Big Brother Instinct Earn Your Happy Ending Fat Bastard Authority Equals Asskicking Breaking the Fourth Wall Works Set in World War II Leaning on the Fourth Wall Didn't Think This Through Italian Films Arranged Marriage Hollywood Law Evil Plan The Reveal Armor-Piercing Question Yandere An Arm and a Leg Big Bad Duumvirate Hollywood Darkness Spell My Name with an "S" Not So Above It All No Celebrities Were Harmed Driven to Suicide Creative Closing Credits Red Right Hand Intrepid Reporter One-Man Army Psychopathic Manchild Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Gold Digger Names to Run Away from Really Fast You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Stealth Hi/Bye Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Dramatic Irony Catapult Nightmare As Himself Foil Romantic Comedy Shell-Shocked Veteran Early-Bird Cameo Affectionate Parody I Did What I Had to Do Only Known by Their Nickname Distracted by the Sexy What Happened to the Mouse? Pretty Little Headshots Took a Level in Jerkass Get Out! Better to Die than Be Killed Title Drop Guns Akimbo Lampshade Hanging Make It Look Like an Accident 20 Minutes into the Future Karmic Death Noodle Incident Hooker with a Heart of Gold Product Placement Tempting Fate Gender Flip Mistaken for Gay Video Credits Reality Is Unrealistic Spiteful Spit Disproportionate Retribution Biopic Serious Business Camp Gay Deliberately Monochrome Papa Wolf Greater-Scope Villain Obviously Evil Domestic Abuse Ascended Extra Comically Missing the Point Bad "Bad Acting" Badass Bookworm Deal with the Devil Would Hit a Girl Vampire Fiction Shipper on Deck Redshirt Army Groin Attack Evil-Detecting Dog Air-Vent Passageway Visual Pun Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Hero Antagonist Eye Scream Sports Stories Drives Like Crazy Love at First Sight Corpsing Body Horror Hope Spot Auto Erotica Honor Before Reason Credits Gag Meet Cute Scenery Porn Irony Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Casting Gag Very Loosely Based on a True Story May–December Romance Straight Gay Affably Evil Wham Shot Aww, Look! 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Captain Ersatz The '60s Epic Movie Fourth Date Marriage Nice Hat Fire-Forged Friends Does Not Like Shoes Revenge Amoral Attorney Meaningful Name Military and Warfare Films A Date with Rosie Palms Sole Survivor Obfuscating Stupidity All There in the Manual Woman Scorned Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! As the Good Book Says... "Where Are They Now?" 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Cool Old Guy The Chessmaster I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Dirty Old Man Only Sane Man The Bully Storming the Castle Conspicuous CG Protagonist Title Coming-of-Age Story Those Two Bad Guys Never My Fault Naïve Newcomer Big Fancy House Offscreen Moment of Awesome Funny Background Event Public Domain Feature Films Black and Gray Morality Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Mugging the Monster "Awesome McCool" Name Improbable Aiming Skills Film Series Stalker with a Crush Disney Death Broken Pedestal Unresolved Sexual Tension Insult Backfire Big "NO!" Character Development Establishing Character Moment The Atoner Artistic License – Geography Off with His Head! Mr. Fanservice Ax-Crazy Black Dude Dies First A Father to His Men Epic Fail Easily Forgiven Double Entendre Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Closed Circle Sinister Minister Cain and Abel Paper-Thin Disguise Kubrick Stare Training Montage Fiery Redhead Bolivian Army Ending Eyepatch of Power Whole Plot Reference Laser-Guided Karma Car Fu The Film of the Book Deconstruction Manly Tears Unusually Uninteresting Sight The Great Depression No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Beware the Nice Ones Bloody Hilarious The Alleged Car Stealth Pun Extremely Short Timespan Ungrateful Bastard Decoy Protagonist Your Cheating Heart O.O.C. Is Serious Business Parental Abandonment Shut Up, Hannibal! Foregone Conclusion Cool Guns Have a Gay Old Time Spared by the Adaptation Green-Eyed Monster Ambiguously Gay Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Truth in Television Novelization Vitriolic Best Buds Accidental Misnaming Hate Sink Drill Sergeant Nasty Artistic License – Military Faux Affably Evil Villain Protagonist Genre Savvy Silent Movie Once More, with Clarity! 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One-Word Title Real Life Evil Is Hammy Running Gag It Will Never Catch On Manic Pixie Dream Girl All Just a Dream Hoist by His Own Petard Tranquil Fury Lighter and Softer Black Best Friend Male Frontal Nudity The Stoic Adorkable Genre Shift Motor Mouth Funny Foreigner Rated M for Manly The Bad Guy Wins The Hero Dies "The Reason You Suck" Speech Shower Scene Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Cool Old Lady Fake Shemp Left the Background Music On The '90s I Have Your Wife Fanservice Monumental Damage Put on a Bus Roaring Rampage of Revenge Famous Last Words Totally Radical Action Prologue Country Matters No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Naked People Are Funny Our Vampires Are Different Demonic Possession Beauty Is Never Tarnished Show Within a Show Extreme Doormat Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Meaningful Echo Mood Whiplash In Name Only Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Grey and Gray Morality Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold La Résistance One Steve Limit Handicapped Badass Instant Death Bullet Be Careful What You Wish For Tap on the Head Betty and Veronica A.I. Is a Crapshoot Facial Horror Silence Is Golden Mexican Standoff It's Personal In Medias Res Index of Film Westerns Mercy Kill Too Dumb to Live Bloodier and Gorier Cassandra Truth The Dog Bites Back He Who Fights Monsters Amusing Injuries Maybe Ever After Crazy-Prepared Author Avatar No Ending Damsel in Distress Stepford Smiler Guile Hero Combat Pragmatist Pay Evil unto Evil Animal Title Index Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Age Lift Rape as Drama The Faceless Dramedy Christmas Movies Index Book-Ends French Films Framing Device Mind Screw Logo Joke No Antagonist Dissonant Serenity Mystery and Detective Films Big Damn Heroes Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Bavarian Fire Drill Fatal Family Photo Dwindling Party Covers Always Lie Grievous Bottley Harm Loophole Abuse An Aesop Only in It for the Money Abusive Parents Actor Allusion Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Unwitting Instigator of Doom Politically Incorrect Villain Scare Chord Psychological Thriller Moment Killer BFG Word of God How We Got Here Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Plucky Comic Relief Artistic License – Gun Safety Curb-Stomp Battle Bald of Evil Drugs Are Bad Overly Long Gag The Cavalry Butt-Monkey Match Cut Adaptation Dye-Job Pragmatic Adaptation Antagonist Title Music Stories The Ghost Mad Scientist Developing Doomed Characters A Minor Kidroduction Pyrrhic Victory Accidental Murder Mythology Gag Artistic License – Physics Poor Communication Kills Smug Snake Redemption Equals Death Shoot the Shaggy Dog Improbable Weapon User Fainting Beta Couple Posthumous Character Corrupt Corporate Executive There Is No Kill Like Overkill Hypocritical Humor Punch-Clock Villain The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Evil vs. Evil Reckless Gun Usage Exactly What It Says on the Tin Eldritch Abomination Race Lift Bunny-Ears Lawyer Kill It with Fire Rule of Cool My Beloved Smother It's All About Me N-Word Privileges Dressing as the Enemy Awesome, but Impractical The Cameo Foreshadowing Disappeared Dad Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds "Well Done, Son!" Guy Heroic BSoD Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Red Shirt Black Comedy Rape Refuge in Audacity Woman in White Adaptational Heroism Anguished Declaration of Love Darker and Edgier Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Would Hurt a Child Chase Scene