Tropescilloscope: Only a Flesh Wound

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Cold-Blooded Torture Sinister Minister Refuge in Audacity Book-Ends The Load Love Triangle Gender Flip Knife Nut Precision F-Strike Superhero Heroic BSoD Parental Neglect Meaningful Background Event Eiffel Tower Effect Lampshade Hanging Hong Kong Films Humiliation Conga Not So Above It All Wounded Gazelle Gambit "Shaggy Dog" Story Obfuscating Stupidity Berserk Button Poor Communication Kills Every Car Is a Pinto Hidden Depths Central Theme Married to the Job Rape as Drama Stock Footage Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Overly Long Gag Love at First Sight Rewatch Bonus Bunny-Ears Lawyer Disney Death It Will Never Catch On Redshirt Army Does Not Like Shoes Dark Is Not Evil Establishing Character Moment Nice Guy Ax-Crazy Male Gaze Dies Wide Open Bi the Way Biopic Not What It Looks Like Driven to Suicide Video Credits A Date with Rosie Palms A God Am I From Nobody to Nightmare Death by Irony Suspiciously Similar Substitute Works Set in World War II Bavarian Fire Drill Dual Wielding Make It Look Like an Accident Sadistic Choice Dressing as the Enemy Face–Heel Turn Imagine Spot Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil BFG Demoted to Extra Protagonist Title Whole Plot Reference You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Big Eater Hero of Another Story Manchild Kick the Dog Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold The Atoner Face Death with Dignity Off with His Head! Mood Whiplash N-Word Privileges Intergenerational Friendship Deal with the Devil Dogged Nice Guy The Smart Guy Disguised in Drag Gold Digger And Starring Dissonant Serenity Jump Scare Outrun the Fireball Twist Ending Epic Movie Department of Redundancy Department Big Bad Duumvirate Bullying a Dragon Sci-Fi Horror No OSHA Compliance My Greatest Failure Manic Pixie Dream Girl Not Using the "Z" Word Intrepid Reporter Crucified Hero Shot Pragmatic Adaptation Recycled IN SPACE! Frame-Up All Girls Want Bad Boys Really Gets Around Dying Moment of Awesome The '80s Suddenly SHOUTING! Roaring Rampage of Revenge Villain Opening Scene Anachronism Stew Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Butt-Monkey Gorn Neck Lift Empathic Environment Big Bad Spared by the Adaptation Took a Level in Jerkass In Medias Res And I Must Scream Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Neck Snap Author Avatar Romantic False Lead Deadpan Snarker Rule of Three Greater-Scope Villain Accidental Murder Black Comedy Loophole Abuse Aside Glance Pretty Little Headshots Drugs Are Bad Vomit Discretion Shot Mr. Exposition Race Lift Leave the Camera Running Crazy Jealous Guy The Casanova This Is Gonna Suck Made of Explodium Back from the Dead Paper-Thin Disguise Death of a Child Skewed Priorities Hair-Trigger Temper He Who Fights Monsters Affably Evil Never My Fault Advertised Extra Chase Scene Bond One-Liner A Minor Kidroduction Domestic Abuse Ungrateful Bastard Scare Chord Age Lift No-Sell Wretched Hive Alas, Poor Villain Brainless Beauty Cluster F-Bomb Spanner in the Works Peek-a-Boo Corpse No Antagonist Offscreen Teleportation Beware the Nice Ones Meaningful Echo The Mafia What the Hell, Hero? Italian Films Badass Grandpa Defrosting Ice Queen Despair Event Horizon Dull Surprise Truth in Television Worthy Opponent Match Cut Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Thriller Costume Porn Flipping the Bird Jerk with a Heart of Gold Grey and Gray Morality Facial Horror Big Damn Heroes Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Bland-Name Product Hypocrite Downer Ending Darkest Hour Determinator Hoist by His Own Petard Super Strength Film Series Mind Screw Action Girl Well-Intentioned Extremist Implacable Man Enemy Mine Big Brother Instinct Badass in a Nice Suit Black Best Friend "Well Done, Son!" Guy Fan Disservice Took a Level in Badass Evil Brit Batman Gambit Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Hate Sink Kill It with Fire Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Offscreen Moment of Awesome Motor Mouth The Dragon Villain Protagonist Villain with Good Publicity Small Name, Big Ego Never Trust a Trailer The Cameo Rule of Funny Narrator Drives Like Crazy Psycho for Hire Shirtless Scene Manipulative Bastard Badass Longcoat Animal Motifs Reality Ensues She's Got Legs Major Injury Underreaction Riddle for the Ages Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Karmic Death Not So Stoic Composite Character Only Sane Man The Big Guy Badass Boast Cowboy Cop From Bad to Worse Mundane Made Awesome Kids Are Cruel Comically Missing the Point Yandere Title Drop Unusual Euphemism Freeze-Frame Bonus Canadian Movies Lighter and Softer The Stinger All Men Are Perverts Unreliable Narrator Vomit Indiscretion Shot Diabolus ex Machina Gone Horribly Right Slashed Throat Politically Incorrect Villain Artistic License – History Mythology Gag Romantic Comedy Gratuitous English Logo Joke Evil Plan Evil Sounds Deep Action Prologue Four-Temperament Ensemble Soundtrack Dissonance Arch-Enemy Unspoken Plan Guarantee The Alcoholic Plot Hole Authority Equals Asskicking Beta Couple Fun with Acronyms How We Got Here Destination Defenestration Naked People Are Funny Black Comedy Rape Up to Eleven Morality Pet Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Not Even Bothering with the Accent Historical Hero Upgrade The Faceless Put on a Bus Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Red Right Hand Funny Background Event Moment Killer Better to Die than Be Killed I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Scary Black Man Spiritual Successor Mugging the Monster Market-Based Title Artistic License – Physics Dark Action Girl Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism It's All About Me No Name Given Only a Flesh Wound Mystery and Detective Films The Stoner Bald of Evil Oh, Crap! Wicked Cultured Exact Words Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The Chick Light Is Not Good Overprotective Dad Be Careful What You Wish For Call-Forward Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Fate Worse than Death Stealth Pun Public Domain Feature Films Green-Eyed Monster Artistic License – Biology Fantasy Films Antagonist Title Calling the Old Man Out Didn't Think This Through Tranquil Fury Rousing Speech The Dreaded Throwing Your Sword Always Works Word of God Foregone Conclusion Slasher Movie Black and Gray Morality Heroic Sacrifice Man on Fire Ms. Fanservice The '70s No Celebrities Were Harmed Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Undying Loyalty Annoying Younger Sibling Cool Old Guy Dutch Angle Too Dumb to Live Punch-Clock Villain Jerkass Reality Is Unrealistic Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Shout-Out Blackmail Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Broken Aesop Red Oni, Blue Oni Sanity Slippage Corrupt Corporate Executive Adaptational Attractiveness I Have Your Wife Early Installment Weirdness Crazy-Prepared Dramedy Ship Tease Cruel and Unusual Death Those Wacky Nazis Hell Is That Noise Broken Bird Taking the Bullet Almost Kiss Same Language Dub Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Historical In-Joke Honor Before Reason Wham Shot The Quiet One Dark Reprise The Hero Dies Sealed Evil in a Can Unusually Uninteresting Sight Creative Closing Credits Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Red Eyes, Take Warning Rule of Symbolism Earn Your Happy Ending Everyone Has Standards Hollywood Law Cassandra Truth Casting Gag Pragmatic Villainy Stylistic Suck The Chessmaster Mama Bear O.O.C. Is Serious Business Spell My Name with an "S" Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! The Vamp Captain Obvious Celebrity Paradox One Steve Limit Final Girl The Starscream Dwindling Party Guns Akimbo Missing Mom Pet the Dog Parental Substitute Ghost Fiction Evil vs. Evil Tempting Fate Bloodier and Gorier Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Self-Deprecation No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Idiot Ball Music Stories Only in It for the Money Cool Shades Foil Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Off-into-the-Distance Ending Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other True Companions Soft Glass Spiteful Spit Anti-Hero Insistent Terminology What Happened to the Mouse? Faux Affably Evil Cat Scare folderlabel Corpsing What You Are in the Dark Heel Realization The Smurfette Principle Sole Survivor Genre Savvy Mighty Whitey The Bully Belligerent Sexual Tension The Bad Guy Wins Random Events Plot Evil Laugh The Place Character Development The Voiceless Jitter Cam All There in the Manual Death Glare timeperiod Creator Cameo Last-Name Basis Bottomless Magazines Kubrick Stare Would Hurt a Child Shipper on Deck Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Serious Business Our Zombies Are Different Big Applesauce Adorkable Big Fancy House The Film of the Book Cain and Abel Author Appeal The '90s Cloudcuckoolander Conspicuous CG Decoy Protagonist "Awesome McCool" Name Re-Cut Air-Vent Passageway Documentary MacGuffin Posthumous Character Ascended Extra Time Skip Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Suspiciously Specific Denial Police are Useless Ironic Echo Covers Always Lie Straight Gay Leaning on the Fourth Wall Blatant Lies "The Reason You Suck" Speech Call-Back Pretty in Mink Grievous Bottley Harm Fourth Date Marriage Artistic License – Gun Safety Artistic License – Law Auto Erotica Chekhov's Gun "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Training Montage An Aesop Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Broken Pedestal Victoria's Secret Compartment Fiery Redhead Curse Cut Short No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Bowdlerise Rich Bitch Affectionate Parody Animal Title Index Fantastic Racism Awesome, but Impractical Death by Sex Improbable Weapon User A.I. Is a Crapshoot Tap on the Head Meaningful Name Cool Old Lady Credits Gag Translation Convention The X of Y Adaptation Name Change Not Quite Dead Male Frontal Nudity Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Martial Arts Movie An Axe to Grind Adults Are Useless 20 Minutes into the Future Police Brutality Gory Discretion Shot Lock and Load Montage Arranged Marriage Horror Films Deus ex Machina Pimped-Out Dress Eyepatch of Power Shut Up, Hannibal! The Reveal Improvised Weapon Tagline Would Hit a Girl Race Against the Clock Abhorrent Admirer Brutal Honesty Important Haircut Award-Bait Song Vacation Films Bury Your Gays The Power of Love Made of Iron Naïve Newcomer Playing Gertrude Rasputinian Death Ambiguously Gay Fainting Totally Radical Mad Scientist Brick Joke Dirty Coward Contrived Coincidence Revenge Card-Carrying Villain Pyrrhic Victory Bolivian Army Ending Cat Fight Reasonable Authority Figure Those Two Guys Retired Badass Eldritch Abomination Your Head A-Splode Never Found the Body Insult Backfire Kick the Son of a Bitch Sir Swears-a-Lot Adapted Out Hooker with a Heart of Gold Country Matters Deliberately Monochrome Artistic License – Military Evil Counterpart Exactly What It Says on the Tin Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Ambiguous Ending Killed Mid-Sentence The Ditz Smug Snake Mooks There Is No Kill Like Overkill Christmas Movies Index Anyone Can Die Reckless Gun Usage Darker and Edgier Did Not Get the Girl Action Genre Knight Templar She Cleans Up Nicely Parental Incest Shoot the Shaggy Dog Developing Doomed Characters Heroes Want Redheads Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Room Full of Crazy The Ace Disney Villain Death Creepy Child Fanservice Disappeared Dad As Long as It Sounds Foreign Eye Scream Jerkass Has a Point The Lost Lenore NO INDOOR VOICE You Have Failed Me You Killed My Father Loads and Loads of Characters Adaptation Dye-Job All There in the Script Bar Brawl Animated Credits Opening Not So Different The Great Depression Show Within a Show Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Black Dude Dies First He Knows Too Much Evil-Detecting Dog Sequel Hook The Cavalry Bittersweet Ending The End... Or Is It? Does This Remind You of Anything? Russian Films The Lancer Non-Indicative Name The Brute Redemption Equals Death Defiant to the End The Alleged Car Guile Hero And the Adventure Continues The Sociopath Retcon Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Take That! Expy Badass Normal Canon Foreigner Storming the Castle Vitriolic Best Buds Slasher Smile Accidental Misnaming Epic Fail Expository Hairstyle Change Adult Fear Setting Update Boom, Headshot! Death Seeker Chiaroscuro Scenery Gorn The Un-Reveal For Want of a Nail Sports Stories Bare Your Midriff I Did What I Had to Do I Need a Freaking Drink Heel–Face Turn Left the Background Music On My Beloved Smother Babies Ever After Break the Haughty No Ending It Can Think One-Word Title Humans Are Bastards Camera Abuse German Films Car Fu Shell-Shocked Veteran Sexy Discretion Shot Sassy Black Woman Eureka Moment My God, What Have I Done? Aluminum Christmas Trees Adaptational Heroism Abusive Parents Dramatic Irony Alpha Bitch Curb-Stomp Battle Gilligan Cut The Hero Fish out of Water Evil Is Petty British Films Rated M for Manly Bring My Brown Pants Military and Warfare Films Agony of the Feet Stalker with a Crush Catch-Phrase The '50s Monumental Damage Real Life Horror Comedy Men Are the Expendable Gender Apocalypse How Insane Troll Logic Chekhov's Skill Amusing Injuries Badass Bookworm Double Entendre Only One Name The '60s Informed Ability Bond Villain Stupidity Ambiguous Disorder Hope Spot The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Here We Go Again! Obviously Evil Ominous Latin Chanting Drill Sergeant Nasty Reality Has No Subtitles Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Based on a True Story Children Are Innocent Extremely Short Timespan Science Fiction Films Dramatic Gun Cock Wrong Genre Savvy Kill 'em All Mistaken for Gay Fatal Family Photo Say My Name Chewing the Scenery Framing Device Unresolved Sexual Tension Instant Death Bullet Daddy's Girl Fake Shemp Let's Get Dangerous! Happily Married Handicapped Badass Meet Cute Combat Pragmatist Femme Fatale Bait-and-Switch May–December Romance Dirty Old Man Visual Pun Real Life Writes the Plot Adaptation Distillation Hollywood Darkness Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Red Shirt I'm a Humanitarian Our Vampires Are Different Japanese Films Hero Antagonist Genre Shift Fingore Very Loosely Based on a True Story Woman in White All for Nothing Big-Bad Ensemble Deliberate Values Dissonance In Name Only Interrupted Suicide All Just a Dream Nothing Is Scarier Fire-Forged Friends Fanservice Extra Psychological Thriller Pay Evil unto Evil Product Placement Manly Tears Wham Line Demonic Possession Homage Malevolent Masked Men In the Back Older Than They Look Half the Man He Used to Be Actor Allusion Fat Bastard Big "NO!" I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Mexican Standoff French Films Anti-Villain Anachronic Order Silent Movie Coming-of-Age Story Sequel Escalation Plucky Comic Relief As You Know Crapsack World Star-Crossed Lovers Taking You with Me An Arm and a Leg Maybe Ever After Alliterative Name A Father to His Men Ass Shove Woman Scorned Novelization Extreme Doormat Leitmotif Immune to Bullets Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Bound and Gagged Armor-Piercing Question Nice Hat Hypocritical Humor Shown Their Work The Mole Bloody Hilarious Your Cheating Heart Catapult Nightmare Running Gag Obstructive Bureaucrat Chekhov's Gunman Action Survivor One-Man Army Punctuated! For! Emphasis! The Ghost Beauty Is Never Tarnished La Résistance Take a Third Option Closed Circle Toplessness from the Back Camp Gay Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Together in Death Ripped from the Headlines Smoking Is Cool Historical Villain Upgrade Vampire Fiction Freudian Excuse After the End Fatal Flaw Papa Wolf Gainax Ending Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome World of Ham Pre-Mortem One-Liner Mercy Kill Large Ham Scenery Porn Anguished Declaration of Love Villain Ball Adaptational Villainy Zombie Stories Funny Foreigner Determinator aka: The Determinator '80s Hair Blood from the Mouth Distracted by the Sexy Those Two Bad Guys Drowning My Sorrows You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Famous Last Words Flashback Even Evil Has Loved Ones Break the Cutie Film Noir Index Names to Run Away from Really Fast Betty and Veronica War Is Hell Mr. Fanservice Sacrificial Lion Karma Houdini Slap-Slap-Kiss Stepford Smiler The Musical Daylight Horror Parental Abandonment The Remake Have a Gay Old Time Shower Scene Laughing Mad Only Known by Their Nickname Henpecked Husband Dark and Troubled Past Noodle Incident Becoming the Mask Villain Song Depraved Bisexual Failed a Spot Check B-Movie Good Is Not Nice Easily Forgiven Groin Attack Red Herring Needs Wiki Magic Love Captain Ersatz It's Personal Australian Movies As Himself Even Evil Has Standards Unwitting Instigator of Doom Breaking the Fourth Wall More Dakka Friend to All Children Genre Throwback Deconstruction Laser-Guided Karma The Oner Double-Meaning Title Bilingual Bonus Disproportionate Retribution Madness Mantra Bloodless Carnage Asshole Victim Film Noir Cool Car Dumb Blonde Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Irony Rule of Cool Due to the Dead Serial Killer Retirony Brother–Sister Incest Blood Knight Death by Adaptation Beard of Evil Dirty Cop Bad Boss Psychopathic Manchild Line-of-Sight Name Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Actually Pretty Funny Historical-Domain Character Adaptational Badass Dropped a Bridge on Him Television Movie Index Attempted Rape Cool Guns Heterosexual Life-Partners Body Horror Foreshadowing Get Out! Amoral Attorney Jerk Jock Trailers Always Spoil Five-Man Band Properly Paranoid Token Minority Stuff Blowing Up Evil Is Hammy Danny Peary Cult Movies List Artistic License – Geography Damsel in Distress The Dog Bites Back Index of Film Westerns Silence Is Golden Faking the Dead Continuity Nod Adaptation Expansion Improbable Aiming Skills Punny Name Bad "Bad Acting" The Stoic Stealth Hi/Bye As the Good Book Says... Ugly Guy, Hot Wife For the Evulz Villainous Breakdown Getting Crap Past the Radar