Tropescilloscope: Only Known by Their Nickname

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Is Serious Business Parental Substitute Flipping the Bird Zombie Stories Distracted by the Sexy Our Vampires Are Different Tranquil Fury Intrepid Reporter Ship Tease Adaptation Distillation Not Even Bothering with the Accent Disappeared Dad Adaptational Villainy Disney Villain Death The Casanova Broken Pedestal Meaningful Background Event Broken Bird Even Evil Has Standards Retired Badass Suspiciously Similar Substitute Evil Sounds Deep Our Zombies Are Different Whole Plot Reference Improbable Weapon User Animal Motifs Cowboy Cop Tap on the Head Men Are the Expendable Gender Covers Always Lie No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Jump Scare Pragmatic Adaptation Ghost Fiction Heroic BSoD Book-Ends The Bad Guy Wins Closed Circle Call-Back Meet Cute Politically Incorrect Villain Your Cheating Heart The Load Instant Death Bullet Crazy-Prepared Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Cold-Blooded Torture Arc Words Only Known by Their Nickname Male Frontal Nudity Aside Glance Black Comedy Rape Card-Carrying Villain Laser-Guided Karma Sassy Black Woman Epic Movie Hidden Depths Dirty Old Man Hell Is That Noise Beauty Is Never Tarnished Bring My Brown Pants Animal Title Index Double-Meaning Title Country Matters Really Gets Around Sci-Fi Horror Hoist by His Own Petard Evil Brit Manic Pixie Dream Girl Artistic License – Geography Demonic Possession Big Brother Instinct Rewatch Bonus Berserk Button Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Heterosexual Life-Partners Say My Name Dark Action Girl Retcon Bowdlerise Bloodless Carnage NO INDOOR VOICE Dramatic Gun Cock Death Glare Darkest Hour Antagonist Title The Smart Guy Vampire Fiction Mistaken for Gay Expy Bunny-Ears Lawyer Music Stories Dogged Nice Guy Babies Ever After Playing Gertrude Karma Houdini Driven to Suicide Scenery Gorn The Cavalry Calling the Old Man Out Spanner in the Works Stealth Pun One-Man Army Butt-Monkey The Stoic Insane Troll Logic Character Development Guile Hero Heel–Face Turn Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Wham Shot Properly Paranoid Alas, Poor Villain All Men Are Perverts Undying Loyalty Affably Evil A Father to His Men Riddle for the Ages Lighter and Softer Psycho for Hire The '70s Insult Backfire "Shaggy Dog" Story Only Sane Man Bottomless Magazines Bi the Way Vitriolic Best Buds War Is Hell Informed Ability Anachronism Stew Jerkass Has a Point Amusing Injuries Sacrificial Lion Neck Lift The Ghost Captain Obvious La Résistance Annoying Younger Sibling Rich Bitch Hypocrite The Lost Lenore Would Hit a Girl Despair Event Horizon Abhorrent Admirer Those Two Guys For the Evulz Evil Plan Curb-Stomp Battle Artistic License – Gun Safety Insistent Terminology Breaking the Fourth Wall Kids Are Cruel Leave the Camera Running Reckless Gun Usage From Nobody to Nightmare Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Wicked Cultured "The Reason You Suck" Speech Crapsack World British Films Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Self-Deprecation Badass Grandpa The Cameo Mystery and Detective Films Overprotective Dad A Date with Rosie Palms Wrong Genre Savvy Fanservice Jitter Cam The Oner The Lancer Title Drop Composite Character Death by Adaptation Genre Throwback Historical-Domain Character As the Good Book Says... 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Truth in Television Ms. Fanservice Brutal Honesty Older Than They Look Parental Neglect Ax-Crazy The Sociopath Body Horror Mythology Gag Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Dark Reprise Parental Abandonment Leaning on the Fourth Wall Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Posthumous Character Central Theme Amoral Attorney Rousing Speech Running Gag Token Minority Dual Wielding Evil Is Petty Martial Arts Movie Silence Is Golden Dull Surprise Wretched Hive Advertised Extra Fiery Redhead Honor Before Reason Immune to Bullets Kick the Son of a Bitch Trailers Always Spoil Big Fancy House Dropped a Bridge on Him He Who Fights Monsters Room Full of Crazy Ungrateful Bastard Jerkass Shell-Shocked Veteran Broken Aesop Fan Disservice Drowning My Sorrows Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Heroes Want Redheads Bond One-Liner Face Death with Dignity Took a Level in Badass Mercy Kill BFG Maybe Ever After Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Attempted Rape One Steve Limit Gratuitous English Military and Warfare Films Groin Attack Oh, Crap! Not Using the "Z" Word Scare Chord All There in the Manual Smoking Is Cool Cruel and Unusual Death Rule of Cool "Awesome McCool" Name Femme Fatale Damsel in Distress Mighty Whitey Captain Ersatz Peek-a-Boo Corpse Historical Villain Upgrade Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Show Within a Show It Will Never Catch On The Starscream Laughing Mad Dying Moment of Awesome Training Montage Early Installment Weirdness Hong Kong Films Never Trust a Trailer Sinister Minister Mood Whiplash Moment Killer Fantastic Racism Brainless Beauty Crazy Jealous Guy Hero Antagonist Greater-Scope Villain Curse Cut Short Did Not Get the Girl Man on Fire Fanservice Extra Extreme Doormat Didn't Think This Through Black Best Friend Batman Gambit Reality Is Unrealistic Sequel Escalation Needs Wiki Magic Love Offscreen Teleportation The Vamp A.I. 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Epilogue Action Genre The Alleged Car Smug Snake Slashed Throat Facial Horror Stylistic Suck Police Brutality No Antagonist Nothing Is Scarier Historical In-Joke Does Not Like Shoes Homage Revenge Fingore Camp Gay Ominous Latin Chanting One-Word Title Sir Swears-a-Lot Decoy Protagonist Refuge in Audacity Major Injury Underreaction Brick Joke Faking the Dead No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Belligerent Sexual Tension My God, What Have I Done? Well-Intentioned Extremist Manchild Bound and Gagged Blood Knight Framing Device Ascended Extra Eureka Moment Reality Has No Subtitles True Companions Authority Equals Asskicking Superhero Badass Longcoat Author Appeal I Need a Freaking Drink Villain Protagonist Unreliable Narrator Death Seeker Meaningful Name Does This Remind You of Anything? 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