Tropescilloscope: Oh, Crap!

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Be Careful What You Wish For Slashed Throat Smoking Is Cool It's All About Me From Nobody to Nightmare The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Unusually Uninteresting Sight Straight Gay Aside Glance Stepford Smiler Wretched Hive Due to the Dead Slap-Slap-Kiss Artistic License – History Gold Digger Cruel and Unusual Death Mundane Made Awesome Male Frontal Nudity Betty and Veronica Hooker with a Heart of Gold The End... Or Is It? Never Trust a Trailer Bar Brawl Stealth Pun Canadian Movies Guile Hero Eyepatch of Power Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Badass Bookworm An Aesop Off with His Head! Tranquil Fury Taking You with Me Here We Go Again! Captain Ersatz Nice Guy Tagline Corpsing Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Crazy-Prepared Men Are the Expendable Gender Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Dramatic Irony Deliberately Monochrome Whole Plot Reference Dark Action Girl The Alleged Car Body Horror Time Skip Have a Gay Old Time Naked People Are Funny Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Hell Is That Noise Works Set in World War II Beard of Evil Superhero The Stoic Award-Bait Song The Hero Dies Older Than They Look Love Triangle Playing Gertrude More Dakka Sinister Minister Light Is Not Good Stealth Hi/Bye Epic Movie Wicked Cultured Lighter and Softer Biopic Heel–Face Turn Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Our Zombies Are Different Ascended Extra Disguised in Drag Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Slasher Movie Sanity Slippage Bad Boss Groin Attack Only Known by Their Nickname Honor Before Reason He Who Fights Monsters "Shaggy Dog" Story Breaking the Fourth Wall Same Language Dub I Did What I Had to Do It Will Never Catch On Bait-and-Switch Accidental Murder Blackmail Poor Communication Kills Kick the Dog Creepy Child Posthumous Character German Films The Dog Bites Back Downer Ending In Medias Res The Lancer Spell My Name with an "S" And I Must Scream Horror Films Plot Hole The Vamp Catapult Nightmare Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Gender Flip Shut Up, Hannibal! Evil Is Hammy Foregone Conclusion Love at First Sight Historical Villain Upgrade Cloudcuckoolander He Knows Too Much Demoted to Extra Show Within a Show Dirty Coward Spared by the Adaptation Department of Redundancy Department All Just a Dream War Is Hell Cat Scare Jerk Jock Big Bad Duumvirate Self-Deprecation Bloodier and Gorier Names to Run Away from Really Fast No Name Given Police are Useless Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Visual Pun Camera Abuse Rasputinian Death Ungrateful Bastard Shipper on Deck Up to Eleven Red Shirt Offscreen Teleportation Red Oni, Blue Oni As Long as It Sounds Foreign Determinator Evil Brit Slasher Smile The Alcoholic Idiot Ball Composite Character Henpecked Husband Happily Married Only in It for the Money Hate Sink Evil Sounds Deep Race Lift Canon Foreigner Genre Shift Artistic License – Law Arc Words Earn Your Happy Ending Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Tap on the Head Crucified Hero Shot Shell-Shocked Veteran Babies Ever After Gainax Ending Empathic Environment Double-Meaning Title Extremely Short Timespan Failed a Spot Check Fun with Acronyms Jerkass Mr. Exposition Deconstruction Bad "Bad Acting" Villainous Breakdown Let's Get Dangerous! Aluminum Christmas Trees Despair Event Horizon Ax-Crazy Humiliation Conga Scare Chord Kubrick Stare Dramatic Gun Cock Anti-Hero Man on Fire The Quiet One Chekhov's Skill Frame-Up Brick Joke The Smart Guy Woman Scorned Berserk Button Comically Missing the Point Manipulative Bastard I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Fan Disservice May–December Romance Author Appeal Jump Scare Adaptation Distillation Meaningful Name Say My Name Not So Stoic Evil-Detecting Dog Sequel Hook The '70s Those Two Guys Adorkable Dramedy Big Bad Drill Sergeant Nasty Setting Update No-Sell Silent Movie Stalker with a Crush Dark Reprise Psychological Thriller Token Minority Dumb Blonde The Smurfette Principle Important Haircut Spanner in the Works Red Eyes, Take Warning Made of Explodium Race Against the Clock Television Movie Index Bullying a Dragon Bond One-Liner Genre Savvy Papa Wolf Dutch Angle The Reveal Cool Guns Dark and Troubled Past Film Noir Index Not What It Looks Like Fingore Advertised Extra Bald of Evil Ship Tease Unwitting Instigator of Doom Public Domain Feature Films Action Prologue Our Vampires Are Different Big Applesauce I Need a Freaking Drink Camp Gay NO INDOOR VOICE Death Seeker Instant Death Bullet Bound and Gagged A Minor Kidroduction Not Even Bothering with the Accent Australian Movies Your Head A-Splode Immune to Bullets Reasonable Authority Figure No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Mexican Standoff The Dragon Unresolved Sexual Tension Fat Bastard Protagonist Title Unusual Euphemism The Great Depression French Films Chekhov's Gun Ambiguous Ending Wounded Gazelle Gambit Closed Circle Attempted Rape Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Defrosting Ice Queen The Sociopath Guns Akimbo Gratuitous English Enemy Mine The Casanova Storming the Castle Bloody Hilarious Hope Spot Rule of Three Better to Die than Be Killed Broken Aesop Riddle for the Ages Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Logo Joke Broken Bird Action Girl Awesome, but Impractical Needs Wiki Magic Love Narrator Obviously Evil Gorn Last-Name Basis Really Gets Around Villain Song Not So Above It All Bare Your Midriff Beauty Is Never Tarnished My Beloved Smother Random Events Plot Shirtless Scene Early Installment Weirdness Revenge Blonde, Brunette, Redhead It Can Think Ironic Echo Malevolent Masked Men Rousing Speech Sci-Fi Horror Vomit Discretion Shot Almost Kiss Bond Villain Stupidity Jerkass Has a Point Dual Wielding Agony of the Feet Film Noir British Films Police Brutality Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Alas, Poor Villain Belligerent Sexual Tension Brutal Honesty Would Hurt a Child Retired Badass Arranged Marriage Male Gaze The Ace Moment Killer Mythology Gag Annoying Younger Sibling Fish out of Water Chase Scene And Starring Only One Name MacGuffin Bloodless Carnage Covers Always Lie Taking the Bullet You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Bunny-Ears Lawyer Kids Are Cruel Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Mr. Fanservice Children Are Innocent The Un-Reveal Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Wham Shot Hong Kong Films Never Found the Body Reality Is Unrealistic Chekhov's Gunman Grievous Bottley Harm Parental Abandonment Coming-of-Age Story Gory Discretion Shot Manchild Death by Irony Improbable Aiming Skills Imagine Spot Drowning My Sorrows Loophole Abuse No OSHA Compliance Heroic Sacrifice Maybe Ever After Funny Background Event The Voiceless The '60s Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Totally Radical Artistic License – Military Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Heroic BSoD Offscreen Moment of Awesome Decoy Protagonist Daddy's Girl Missing Mom Black Comedy Rape Neck Snap Call-Forward Establishing Character Moment "Well Done, Son!" 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Suspiciously Similar Substitute Drives Like Crazy Product Placement Not Quite Dead Hidden Depths All Girls Want Bad Boys Eureka Moment Pragmatic Adaptation Re-Cut Documentary Not So Different Mercy Kill Cain and Abel Sexy Discretion Shot Friend to All Children Monumental Damage Danny Peary Cult Movies List Contrived Coincidence Dirty Old Man Curse Cut Short Well-Intentioned Extremist Fantasy Films Pretty in Mink Manly Tears timeperiod Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Adapted Out Historical-Domain Character Extreme Doormat Loads and Loads of Characters Soft Glass The Mole Title Drop Batman Gambit Informed Ability Rule of Funny The Cavalry Beware the Nice Ones Outrun the Fireball Butt-Monkey Wham Line Very Loosely Based on a True Story Big Damn Heroes Reality Ensues '80s Hair Impaled with Extreme Prejudice "Awesome McCool" Name Irony This Is Gonna Suck Stuff Blowing Up Fanservice Extra Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Took a Level in Jerkass Star-Crossed Lovers Black Best Friend Music Stories Anachronism Stew Only Sane Man Dark Is Not Evil Victoria's Secret Compartment Karma Houdini Stylistic Suck No Ending Overly Long Gag Artistic License – Physics You Killed My Father Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Toplessness from the Back Grey and Gray Morality Manic Pixie Dream Girl All Men Are Perverts Evil vs. Evil Corrupt Corporate Executive Made of Iron Cat Fight Good Is Not Nice In Name Only Badass Boast What You Are in the Dark Market-Based Title Foreshadowing Hollywood Law The Stoner Accidental Misnaming Ghost Fiction Rule of Symbolism A Father to His Men The Brute Recycled IN SPACE! Car Fu Captain Obvious The Film of the Book Horror Comedy Anachronic Order Deus ex Machina Shout-Out Politically Incorrect Villain Red Herring Darkest Hour Black Dude Dies First Age Lift A Date with Rosie Palms Not Using the "Z" Word Death by Sex Leitmotif Auto Erotica Too Dumb to Live Match Cut Foil The Ditz Refuge in Audacity Knife Nut Disney Villain Death Christmas Movies Index Character Development Scenery Porn BFG Red Right Hand Face–Heel Turn Obfuscating Stupidity Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Jitter Cam Conspicuous CG Black Comedy One-Man Army Improbable Weapon User Vampire Fiction Video Credits Mooks Super Strength The Chick Back from the Dead Crapsack World It's Personal Yandere Adaptational Badass Film Series Take a Third Option Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Hero As Himself Soundtrack Dissonance Rape as Drama Sequel Escalation Once More, with Clarity! folderlabel Villain Protagonist Nothing Is Scarier Rewatch Bonus Those Wacky Nazis Rule of Cool Nice Hat The Atoner Facial Horror Eldritch Abomination Continuity Nod An Arm and a Leg Big Brother Instinct Daylight Horror Cool Old Lady Fiery Redhead Overprotective Dad Japanese Films Becoming the Mask Fatal Flaw Those Two Bad Guys Cool Shades Truth in Television Leaning on the Fourth Wall Obstructive Bureaucrat Only a Flesh Wound Broken Pedestal Training Montage The X of Y What the Hell, Hero? And the Adventure Continues Hypocrite The Lost Lenore Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience All There in the Script Authority Equals Asskicking Animated Credits Opening Index of Film Westerns Evil Is Petty Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Every Car Is a Pinto Darker and Edgier Creator Cameo Deal with the Devil How We Got Here Adult Fear Chewing the Scenery Epic Fail Card-Carrying Villain Action Genre Intergenerational Friendship True Companions What Happened to the Mouse? I Just Shot Marvin in the Face "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Framing Device Psychopathic Manchild Bottomless Magazines Even Evil Has Loved Ones In the Back Pretty Little Headshots The Dreaded Kick the Son of a Bitch Insane Troll Logic A God Am I My Greatest Failure I'm a Humanitarian Meet Cute Romantic False Lead Fainting Historical Hero Upgrade Kill It with Fire Stock Footage Blatant Lies Parental Substitute Sacrificial Lion Everyone Has Standards Early-Bird Cameo No Celebrities Were Harmed Hero of Another Story From Bad to Worse Determinator aka: The Determinator Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Celebrity Paradox Getting Crap Past the Radar Pimped-Out Dress Abusive Parents Undying Loyalty Call-Back Unspoken Plan Guarantee Handicapped Badass Took a Level in Badass Animal Title Index The Faceless Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Rated M for Manly Insult Backfire Catch-Phrase Romantic Comedy Insistent Terminology Knight Templar Actually Pretty Funny Noodle Incident Dropped a Bridge on Him Anguished Declaration of Love Central Theme Double Entendre Sports Stories Curb-Stomp Battle Bittersweet Ending The Stinger Room Full of Crazy Break the Haughty Scenery Gorn Shown Their Work Big-Bad Ensemble Suspiciously Specific Denial One-Word Title World of Ham Evil Counterpart Artistic License – Geography Combat Pragmatist Easily Forgiven Would Hit a Girl Credits Gag Break the Cutie The Power of Love Zombie Stories Adaptational Heroism Skewed Priorities Peek-a-Boo Corpse Blood Knight Lampshade Hanging Punny Name Domestic Abuse Funny Foreigner Silence Is Golden Properly Paranoid Eiffel Tower Effect Smug Snake Killed Mid-Sentence Exactly What It Says on the Tin Dirty Cop The Place Brainless Beauty Sadistic Choice B-Movie Damsel in Distress Pay Evil unto Evil Developing Doomed Characters Actor Allusion Did Not Get the Girl Mind Screw Alliterative Name The Bad Guy Wins Scary Black Man Casting Gag Paper-Thin Disguise Based on a True Story Italian Films Brother–Sister Incest Demonic Possession Left the Background Music On Chiaroscuro Rich Bitch Take That! Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Cassandra Truth As You Know Defiant to the End The Musical Pet the Dog Costume Porn Military and Warfare Films Plucky Comic Relief Fake Shemp Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Badass in a Nice Suit Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Kill 'em All Creative Closing Credits Dressing as the Enemy Running Gag Historical In-Joke Anyone Can Die For Want of a Nail Science Fiction Films Femme Fatale The Bully No Antagonist The Ghost Fanservice Russian Films Half the Man He Used to Be Real Life Writes the Plot Improvised Weapon Spiteful Spit Asshole Victim Screw the Money, I Have Rules! An Axe to Grind Redshirt Army The '90s Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Death of a Child Small Name, Big Ego Interrupted Suicide Reckless Gun Usage Deadpan Snarker Hair-Trigger Temper Death by Adaptation Leave the Camera Running Vitriolic Best Buds Death Glare Book-Ends Adaptational Villainy Alpha Bitch Mystery and Detective Films Villain Opening Scene Novelization Bland-Name Product