Tropescilloscope: Only a Flesh Wound

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As You Know Bring My Brown Pants Big Bad Duumvirate True Companions Say My Name Russian Films Sadistic Choice Canadian Movies No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Abusive Parents Large Ham Handicapped Badass Final Girl Composite Character Scenery Gorn Offscreen Moment of Awesome Getting Crap Past the Radar Manchild Those Two Bad Guys Hooker with a Heart of Gold Captain Obvious Face Death with Dignity The Remake Broken Bird Only Sane Man The Brute Big Damn Heroes Slashed Throat Stylistic Suck Interrupted Suicide Sinister Minister Rule of Symbolism Killed Mid-Sentence Disney Villain Death Hypocrite No Antagonist Gorn Dramatic Irony Central Theme Call-Back Jerkass Adaptation Name Change Funny Foreigner Slasher Movie Due to the Dead Naïve Newcomer Put on a Bus Fingore Fan Disservice Unwitting Instigator of Doom Sexy Discretion Shot Death by Adaptation Improbable Aiming Skills Logo Joke I Have Your Wife French Films Martial Arts Movie Gratuitous English Poor Communication Kills Body Horror No OSHA Compliance Rasputinian Death Hollywood Darkness And the Adventure Continues Camera Abuse BFG Laser-Guided Karma Hidden Depths The Cavalry Brother–Sister Incest Rule of Three Police Brutality Casting Gag Well-Intentioned Extremist Chekhov's Skill Too Dumb to Live Anyone Can Die War Is Hell Heroic BSoD Wham Line Unspoken Plan Guarantee Malevolent Masked Men Naked People Are Funny Adaptational Villainy Rape as Drama Foregone Conclusion It Can Think The '50s Obfuscating Stupidity This Is Gonna Suck Missing Mom Rule of Funny Meet Cute Ass Shove The Oner The Hero Actually Pretty Funny Combat Pragmatist Five-Man Band The Starscream Sequel Hook Mundane Made Awesome Genre Throwback Henpecked Husband Better to Die than Be Killed Manic Pixie Dream Girl Cool Old Guy Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Asshole Victim Unresolved Sexual Tension Recycled IN SPACE! 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Guy Eldritch Abomination The Dog Bites Back Rated M for Manly Deliberate Values Dissonance N-Word Privileges Adaptation Dye-Job Mind Screw Taking the Bullet Country Matters Foreshadowing Dressing as the Enemy Improbable Weapon User Dogged Nice Guy Novelization Christmas Movies Index Evil Counterpart Vitriolic Best Buds Artistic License – Biology Adaptation Expansion The Place Nice Guy Off-into-the-Distance Ending Fiery Redhead Deadpan Snarker All There in the Script Our Zombies Are Different Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass The Vamp Gainax Ending Mr. Fanservice Reality Has No Subtitles Sci-Fi Horror Dies Wide Open More Dakka Black Comedy Rape Idiot Ball Pragmatic Adaptation Documentary Nice Hat The Film of the Book Disproportionate Retribution folderlabel Police are Useless Random Events Plot Affably Evil Celebrity Paradox Instant Death Bullet Bond Villain Stupidity Deus ex Machina Ragtag Bunch of Misfits One-Word Title Badass Grandpa Conspicuous CG Tagline Cloudcuckoolander Artistic License – Physics Those Wacky Nazis Kids Are Cruel Based on a True Story Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Berserk Button Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Wounded Gazelle Gambit Romantic False Lead Soundtrack Dissonance You Killed My Father Corrupt Corporate Executive Dirty Old Man Shown Their Work Redshirt Army Loophole Abuse Made of Explodium Left the Background Music On Slap-Slap-Kiss Wham Shot Amoral Attorney Men Are the Expendable Gender Pyrrhic Victory Overly Long Gag Light Is Not Good Re-Cut Calling the Old Man Out Kubrick Stare Darker and Edgier Real Life Back from the Dead Aww, Look! 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Epilogue Love at First Sight Deconstruction As Himself Love Triangle Bad "Bad Acting" Bound and Gagged Cool Guns Good Is Not Nice Villain Ball Exactly What It Says on the Tin Victoria's Secret Compartment Action Survivor The '70s Depraved Bisexual Dark Is Not Evil Hypocritical Humor Blackmail Vomit Indiscretion Shot Car Fu Authority Equals Asskicking Dirty Cop Obviously Evil Chase Scene Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Eagleland Scenery Porn Reality Ensues Death Glare Hair-Trigger Temper Horror Films Romantic Comedy For Want of a Nail Fatal Flaw Easily Forgiven Hero of Another Story The Musical Hell Is That Noise Groin Attack Only Known by Their Nickname Took a Level in Jerkass Riddle for the Ages As the Good Book Says... Grey and Gray Morality German Films Race Lift Disney Death Developing Doomed Characters Neck Lift Grievous Bottley Harm Badass Normal Oh, Crap! 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Is a Crapshoot Last-Name Basis Creator Cameo Truth in Television There Is No Kill Like Overkill Mr. Exposition Ripped from the Headlines Famous Last Words Blood Knight Heterosexual Life-Partners Never Found the Body Scary Black Man Exact Words Implacable Man Red Shirt Mugging the Monster Bavarian Fire Drill Death by Irony Lock and Load Montage Training Montage Breaking the Fourth Wall Word of God Chiaroscuro Green-Eyed Monster Crazy Jealous Guy Worthy Opponent The Un-Reveal Totally Radical Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Gone Horribly Right Lighter and Softer Sacrificial Lion Corpsing Hate Sink Smoking Is Cool Insult Backfire Beauty Is Never Tarnished Deliberately Monochrome Break the Haughty He Who Fights Monsters No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Hong Kong Films The Mole The Lost Lenore Madness Mantra Fanservice From Nobody to Nightmare Big Applesauce Cool Old Lady Reckless Gun Usage Male Gaze Big Bad Homage Funny Background Event Parental Abandonment Ungrateful Bastard Self-Deprecation Bilingual Bonus Annoying Younger Sibling Redemption Equals Death Big "NO!" Death of a Child Retcon Dirty Coward Refuge in Audacity Taking You with Me Maybe Ever After Revenge Sequel Escalation Adult Fear Red Oni, Blue Oni Ghost Fiction Black Best Friend Epic Movie Shell-Shocked Veteran Ironic Echo Artistic License – Law Soft Glass Sanity Slippage Stuff Blowing Up Intrepid Reporter Title Drop Genre Shift The Big Guy Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Arc Words Sole Survivor One Steve Limit Super Strength Shoot the Shaggy Dog Gilligan Cut Mercy Kill Off with His Head! Insistent Terminology Character Development Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Woman Scorned Kick the Dog Bloodless Carnage Scare Chord What the Hell, Hero? 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