Tropescilloscope: Only Known by Their Nickname

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