Tropescilloscope: Once More, with Clarity!

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Suspiciously Similar Substitute Heel–Face Turn Outrun the Fireball Domestic Abuse Betty and Veronica He Knows Too Much Shipper on Deck Bilingual Bonus Fate Worse than Death Ambiguously Gay I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Time Skip Wretched Hive Mind Screw Big Damn Heroes Science Fiction Films "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Sports Stories Loads and Loads of Characters Bad Boss Adaptational Badass Action Girl Villain Ball Those Wacky Nazis Shown Their Work Too Dumb to Live Break the Cutie Not So Above It All Jerkass Has a Point Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil German Films Becoming the Mask There Is No Kill Like Overkill Karma Houdini Toplessness from the Back Scenery Porn Hair-Trigger Temper As You Know Extremely Short Timespan Improbable Weapon User Cassandra Truth Heroes Want Redheads Death by Adaptation Expy Actor Allusion Distracted by the Sexy N-Word Privileges Conspicuous CG Rule of Symbolism Ungrateful Bastard Suddenly SHOUTING! She's Got Legs The Hero The Bad Guy Wins Hollywood Law Missing Mom Good Is Not Nice Soft Glass The '50s The Smart Guy Yandere Say My Name One Steve Limit Contrived Coincidence Author Appeal Lighter and Softer Depraved Bisexual Ambiguous Disorder Insane Troll Logic Smoking Is Cool Pretty in Mink Token Minority Woman Scorned Rewatch Bonus Unreliable Narrator Driven to Suicide Didn't Think This Through Badass Grandpa Get Out! Hero of Another Story Woman in White Dramedy One-Man Army Really Gets Around An Aesop Grievous Bottley Harm Russian Films Playing Gertrude Deconstruction Shut Up, Hannibal! The Load Evil Sounds Deep Adults Are Useless Not Quite Dead Cowboy Cop Chiaroscuro Cold-Blooded Torture Sole Survivor The X of Y Break the Haughty Celebrity Paradox Improbable Aiming Skills Deal with the Devil Only in It for the Money Broken Pedestal Bi the Way Politically Incorrect Villain Big Fancy House Kick the Son of a Bitch Destination Defenestration Red Oni, Blue Oni Hong Kong Films Eiffel Tower Effect Damsel in Distress Setting Update The Stoner The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite The Reveal How We Got Here A.I. Is a Crapshoot Mr. Fanservice Informed Ability Guns Akimbo Intergenerational Friendship Fat Bastard Historical Villain Upgrade Maybe Ever After Love at First Sight Red Eyes, Take Warning Nice Hat All Just a Dream Fantastic Racism The '90s Retcon All Men Are Perverts Dirty Old Man Serious Business Hero Antagonist A Minor Kidroduction Undying Loyalty Kubrick Stare The Place Evil Laugh Artistic License – Military Darker and Edgier No Ending Word of God Idiot Ball Cruel and Unusual Death Animal Motifs Race Against the Clock Man on Fire My Greatest Failure Scenery Gorn Gilligan Cut Artistic License – Physics Evil Is Hammy Cloudcuckoolander My God, What Have I Done? Noodle Incident Film Noir Novelization Only Known by Their Nickname Hoist by His Own Petard Translation Convention Stealth Hi/Bye Television Movie Index You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Chekhov's Gunman The Cameo Your Head A-Splode Left the Background Music On Beta Couple Honor Before Reason Made of Explodium Horror Films Once More, with Clarity! Retired Badass No Antagonist The Lost Lenore Slasher Movie Male Gaze War Is Hell Manly Tears Shirtless Scene Catapult Nightmare Dissonant Serenity Not So Stoic Handicapped Badass Freeze-Frame Bonus Paper-Thin Disguise Central Theme Men Are the Expendable Gender Reasonable Authority Figure Sanity Slippage Establishing Character Moment Psychopathic Manchild "Well Done, Son!" Guy Match Cut Unresolved Sexual Tension Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Imagine Spot Spiritual Successor Defrosting Ice Queen Off with His Head! Implacable Man Not Even Bothering with the Accent Artistic License – Gun Safety Facial Horror Kill 'em All Skewed Priorities Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Stuff Blowing Up Loophole Abuse Mooks Adapted Out Important Haircut Batman Gambit Determinator aka: The Determinator The Stoic Badass Boast Canadian Movies Gorn Laser-Guided Karma Beware the Nice Ones It's Personal Papa Wolf Room Full of Crazy Romantic False Lead Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Not What It Looks Like Better to Die than Be Killed Dull Surprise Artistic License – Biology MacGuffin Daylight Horror Asshole Victim Love Triangle Insult Backfire Chekhov's Skill Index of Film Westerns O.O.C. Is Serious Business Beauty Is Never Tarnished Unspoken Plan Guarantee Curb-Stomp Battle Grey and Gray Morality Humiliation Conga Adult Fear Everyone Has Standards Crazy Jealous Guy From Nobody to Nightmare Dwindling Party Adorkable Pay Evil unto Evil Death Seeker Badass Normal Insistent Terminology Scary Black Man Epic Fail Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Re-Cut Dumb Blonde Actually Pretty Funny Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience In Medias Res Whole Plot Reference The Great Depression Cool Car La Résistance Retirony Took a Level in Badass As Long as It Sounds Foreign Slashed Throat Here We Go Again! Tagline Ghost Fiction Non-Indicative Name Call-Back Kick the Dog Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The Brute Fire-Forged Friends Bond Villain Stupidity Authority Equals Asskicking Historical Hero Upgrade Eldritch Abomination Drill Sergeant Nasty Needs Wiki Magic Love Big Eater Costume Porn Amoral Attorney Japanese Films Bring My Brown Pants Alas, Poor Villain Heroic Sacrifice "The Reason You Suck" Speech Psycho for Hire Vomit Indiscretion Shot From Bad to Worse Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane For the Evulz Irony Logo Joke Unusual Euphemism Empathic Environment Karmic Death Sadistic Choice Even Evil Has Loved Ones And the Adventure Continues Badass Longcoat Serial Killer Off-into-the-Distance Ending Determinator All Girls Want Bad Boys Face–Heel Turn Morality Pet She Cleans Up Nicely Bavarian Fire Drill Ironic Echo Never Found the Body Villain with Good Publicity Brutal Honesty Award-Bait Song You Killed My Father Adaptation Distillation Black Best Friend British Films Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Artistic License – History Cain and Abel The Ghost Straight Gay Camera Abuse The Alcoholic Demoted to Extra For Want of a Nail Fiery Redhead Historical-Domain Character Did Not Get the Girl Death of a Child Took a Level in Jerkass Hooker with a Heart of Gold Fish out of Water Parental Incest Plot Hole Would Hurt a Child Pet the Dog Made of Iron Film Series Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass No-Sell Superhero Continuity Nod The Musical Malevolent Masked Men Manchild Friend to All Children Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Fainting Nothing Is Scarier Adaptational Villainy Artistic License – Law Action Survivor All There in the Manual Awesome, but Impractical Stealth Pun The Hero Dies Drowning My Sorrows Manic Pixie Dream Girl Totally Radical Crapsack World Eagleland Fingore Vitriolic Best Buds Leave the Camera Running No Celebrities Were Harmed Bare Your Midriff Broken Bird Death Glare Ugly Guy, Hot Wife One-Word Title Only One Name The Bully Manipulative Bastard Never My Fault I Have Your Wife Downer Ending Up to Eleven Aluminum Christmas Trees Male Frontal Nudity Does Not Like Shoes Dutch Angle Anti-Villain The Un-Reveal Narrator Drugs Are Bad Villainous Breakdown Blackmail B-Movie Belligerent Sexual Tension Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies A Father to His Men Dark Reprise Double Entendre The Film of the Book Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy An Arm and a Leg timeperiod 20 Minutes into the Future Meaningful Background Event Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Artistic License – Geography Big Bad Duumvirate The Mole Freudian Excuse Fanservice Extra Rule of Cool Bitch in Sheep's Clothing I'm a Humanitarian The Ace Shoot the Shaggy Dog Funny Background Event Department of Redundancy Department Nice Guy Alpha Bitch Book-Ends Brainless Beauty Red Shirt Creator Cameo World of Ham Have a Gay Old Time Roaring Rampage of Revenge Death by Sex Large Ham Bury Your Gays Disney Death Sexy Discretion Shot Demonic Possession Almost Kiss Reality Has No Subtitles Ambiguous Ending Obviously Evil Dogged Nice Guy Parental Abandonment Tranquil Fury Half the Man He Used to Be Mad Scientist Bloodier and Gorier It Can Think Kids Are Cruel Guile Hero The '80s Let's Get Dangerous! Together in Death Lock and Load Montage French Films Monumental Damage Put on a Bus Flashback More Dakka All for Nothing Easily Forgiven It's All About Me Parental Substitute Thriller Title Drop Last-Name Basis Call-Forward Would Hit a Girl Anachronic Order Silent Movie And Starring Obstructive Bureaucrat Posthumous Character Body Horror Dramatic Irony In the Back Action Genre Car Fu Getting Crap Past the Radar Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Stock Footage Real Life Writes the Plot The Chessmaster Show Within a Show Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Captain Obvious Back from the Dead The Power of Love Italian Films Parental Neglect Cat Scare "Awesome McCool" Name Children Are Innocent In Name Only Pre-Mortem One-Liner Annoying Younger Sibling Sealed Evil in a Can Deliberate Values Dissonance Silence Is Golden Epic Movie Black and Gray Morality Femme Fatale Blood Knight No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Animal Title Index Laughing Mad Peek-a-Boo Corpse Properly Paranoid Arc Words Fatal Family Photo Vomit Discretion Shot Exact Words Evil-Detecting Dog Adaptation Dye-Job Decoy Protagonist Corpsing Hope Spot Super Strength Light Is Not Good Brother–Sister Incest No OSHA Compliance Bullying a Dragon Romantic Comedy Christmas Movies Index Vampire Fiction Tempting Fate Combat Pragmatist Overprotective Dad Rule of Three Despair Event Horizon Hidden Depths Catch-Phrase Scare Chord Be Careful What You Wish For Disappeared Dad I Need a Freaking Drink Big Brother Instinct Random Events Plot Animated Credits Opening Pragmatic Villainy It Will Never Catch On Abhorrent Admirer Pragmatic Adaptation Ass Shove Camp Gay Hypocritical Humor The Mafia Slap-Slap-Kiss Extreme Doormat Immune to Bullets Knife Nut Cluster F-Bomb The Cavalry Race Lift Sequel Hook Eye Scream All There in the Script Protagonist Title Mercy Kill Dark and Troubled Past Heterosexual Life-Partners Big Applesauce After the End Babies Ever After Precision F-Strike Based on a True Story Psychological Thriller Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Bar Brawl Reckless Gun Usage Mr. Exposition Breaking the Fourth Wall Real Life Homage Dropped a Bridge on Him Butt-Monkey Neck Lift Crucified Hero Shot Boom, Headshot! Riddle for the Ages Early-Bird Cameo Greater-Scope Villain A God Am I He Who Fights Monsters Arch-Enemy Reality Is Unrealistic Unusually Uninteresting Sight Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Fatal Flaw Chewing the Scenery Air-Vent Passageway Suspiciously Specific Denial As the Good Book Says... A Date with Rosie Palms As Himself Documentary Jerk with a Heart of Gold Gold Digger Never Trust a Trailer Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Groin Attack Taking You with Me Agony of the Feet Foregone Conclusion Four-Temperament Ensemble Bolivian Army Ending Cool Guns Film Noir Index Earn Your Happy Ending Wham Shot Developing Doomed Characters The Chick Storming the Castle Pre-Asskicking One-Liner The Stinger Faking the Dead Not So Different Abusive Parents Alliterative Name Comically Missing the Point Bloodless Carnage Poor Communication Kills Disney Villain Death Mythology Gag Blatant Lies Fan Disservice The Big Guy Auto Erotica No Name Given Unwitting Instigator of Doom Bad "Bad Acting" Music Stories Does This Remind You of Anything? Death by Irony Cool Shades Interrupted Suicide Meaningful Echo Bowdlerise Naïve Newcomer May–December Romance The Lancer Fourth Date Marriage Fake Shemp Revenge Motor Mouth Video Credits Genre Shift Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Meet Cute Accidental Murder Chase Scene Frame-Up Bunny-Ears Lawyer Older Than They Look Historical In-Joke Spiteful Spit Funny Foreigner Amusing Injuries Visual Pun Foil The Dog Bites Back Final Girl Creative Closing Credits Badass Bookworm I Did What I Had to Do Gender Flip The Starscream Armor-Piercing Question Darkest Hour Danny Peary Cult Movies List Dying Moment of Awesome Affectionate Parody Rousing Speech Married to the Job The Oner I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Early Installment Weirdness Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Berserk Button Horror Comedy Naked People Are Funny Police Brutality Black Dude Dies First Coming-of-Age Story Genre Savvy Cool Old Lady Exactly What It Says on the Tin Ms. Fanservice Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Dual Wielding Meaningful Name Faux Affably Evil Villain Opening Scene Biopic Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Victoria's Secret Compartment Offscreen Moment of Awesome Rasputinian Death Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Worthy Opponent Attempted Rape Advertised Extra Disproportionate Retribution Only Sane Man Accidental Misnaming Creepy Child The Ditz Adaptational Heroism Bottomless Magazines Action Prologue Casting Gag Gone Horribly Right An Axe to Grind Cat Fight Green-Eyed Monster Fun with Acronyms Anyone Can Die Bald of Evil Anguished Declaration of Love Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Daddy's Girl Dark Action Girl Rich Bitch Evil vs. Evil Hell Is That Noise Take That! Names to Run Away from Really Fast Instant Death Bullet Shout-Out Country Matters Black Comedy Rape Big-Bad Ensemble Author Avatar Eureka Moment Henpecked Husband Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! What You Are in the Dark Bait-and-Switch The Quiet One Those Two Guys Our Zombies Are Different Hypocrite Well-Intentioned Extremist "Shaggy Dog" Story Running Gag Leaning on the Fourth Wall Sinister Minister Evil Counterpart Beard of Evil Overly Long Gag Adaptation Name Change Stylistic Suck Self-Deprecation Dark Is Not Evil Killed Mid-Sentence The '70s Public Domain Feature Films Major Injury Underreaction Eyepatch of Power Adaptational Attractiveness Adaptation Expansion Gratuitous English Famous Last Words Deus ex Machina Drives Like Crazy Due to the Dead Antagonist Title Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Zombie Stories Truth in Television Ripped from the Headlines Deliberately Monochrome No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Taking the Bullet Spell My Name with an "S" Your Cheating Heart Punch-Clock Villain Police are Useless Mundane Made Awesome Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Jerk Jock Intrepid Reporter Character Development The End... Or Is It? Product Placement Redshirt Army The Vamp Diabolus ex Machina Villain Protagonist folderlabel Refuge in Audacity What Happened to the Mouse? Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Dirty Cop Only a Flesh Wound Twist Ending Credits Gag Red Right Hand Aside Glance Mexican Standoff Gory Discretion Shot Military and Warfare Films Kill It with Fire Dramatic Gun Cock Our Vampires Are Different Humans Are Bastards Composite Character Shell-Shocked Veteran Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Blood from the Mouth Curse Cut Short Australian Movies Foreshadowing The Voiceless Ship Tease Neck Snap The Dreaded Disguised in Drag Pimped-Out Dress Take a Third Option Wicked Cultured Same Language Dub Affably Evil Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Enemy Mine The Alleged Car Jump Scare Pretty Little Headshots Pyrrhic Victory Red Herring Sassy Black Woman Expository Hairstyle Change What the Hell, Hero? Bound and Gagged NO INDOOR VOICE Double-Meaning Title The Faceless This Is Gonna Suck Defiant to the End Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Line-of-Sight Name Flipping the Bird Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Card-Carrying Villain Martial Arts Movie Trailers Always Spoil Heroic BSoD Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Works Set in World War II Shower Scene Fantasy Films Smug Snake Bloody Hilarious Sacrificial Lion Those Two Bad Guys Corrupt Corporate Executive Lampshade Hanging You Have Failed Me Offscreen Teleportation Big "NO!" Heel Realization Covers Always Lie Apocalypse How Chekhov's Gun Punny Name Ominous Latin Chanting Calling the Old Man Out Oh, Crap! Crazy-Prepared Rape as Drama Bond One-Liner Mistaken for Gay True Companions Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The Atoner Badass in a Nice Suit Rated M for Manly Madness Mantra Make It Look Like an Accident Dressing as the Enemy Deadpan Snarker Moment Killer The Remake '80s Hair Wounded Gazelle Gambit Anti-Hero Throwing Your Sword Always Works BFG Sequel Escalation Canon Foreigner Brick Joke Not Using the "Z" Word Reality Ensues The Casanova Soundtrack Dissonance Dies Wide Open Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Plucky Comic Relief Leitmotif Tap on the Head Slasher Smile Wham Line Redemption Equals Death Market-Based Title Training Montage Very Loosely Based on a True Story Anachronism Stew Stalker with a Crush Jitter Cam And I Must Scream Fanservice Hollywood Darkness Evil Plan Evil Is Petty The Sociopath Closed Circle Villain Song Bittersweet Ending Mood Whiplash Wrong Genre Savvy Vacation Films Recycled IN SPACE! Star-Crossed Lovers