Tropescilloscope: Overly Long Gag

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It's Personal Crazy Jealous Guy The Dog Bites Back Rewatch Bonus Superhero Evil Counterpart Big Brother Instinct Adult Fear Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Horror Films Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Recycled IN SPACE! Lampshade Hanging As the Good Book Says... Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Green-Eyed Monster Destination Defenestration Antagonist Title Ascended Extra British Films Henpecked Husband Grey and Gray Morality Vampire Fiction Calling the Old Man Out Jerkass Has a Point Shipper on Deck One Steve Limit Gorn Left the Background Music On Canadian Movies Laughing Mad He Knows Too Much No Ending Red Oni, Blue Oni Training Montage Card-Carrying Villain Get Out! Foreshadowing Domestic Abuse Early-Bird Cameo Kill 'em All Pimped-Out Dress Deconstruction Covers Always Lie Lock and Load Montage Cowboy Cop Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Is Serious Business Death by Irony Adorkable Stuff Blowing Up Older Than They Look Casting Gag May–December Romance Martial Arts Movie Ironic Echo Disguised in Drag Parental Neglect Psychopathic Manchild All Men Are Perverts Bavarian Fire Drill Broken Pedestal Apocalypse How Overprotective Dad Blatant Lies Historical In-Joke Paper-Thin Disguise Smoking Is Cool Danny Peary Cult Movies List Loads and Loads of Characters It's All About Me Exact Words Evil Is Hammy Conspicuous CG Hell Is That Noise Villain Ball Logo Joke The Lancer Catapult Nightmare Take That! Malevolent Masked Men Self-Deprecation Retired Badass Ghost Fiction The Dreaded '80s Hair Soundtrack Dissonance Jitter Cam Brutal Honesty Sir Swears-a-Lot Central Theme Pay Evil unto Evil Determinator Product Placement Mood Whiplash A God Am I It Will Never Catch On Author Avatar Disappeared Dad Does This Remind You of Anything? 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For! Emphasis! Bury Your Gays The '90s Evil-Detecting Dog Genre Throwback Insistent Terminology Creepy Child Fingore Crapsack World Revenge Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Is a Crapshoot I Have Your Wife No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Ambiguous Ending Science Fiction Films Anguished Declaration of Love Tagline Big Fancy House Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Parental Substitute You Killed My Father Adaptation Dye-Job Karmic Death Dressing as the Enemy Token Minority Fat Bastard Fiery Redhead Silence Is Golden No Antagonist She Cleans Up Nicely Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping The Alcoholic Double Entendre Major Injury Underreaction Vomit Discretion Shot Irony Rape as Drama War Is Hell Celebrity Paradox Your Cheating Heart Dark Is Not Evil The Un-Reveal Woman Scorned Greater-Scope Villain The Bad Guy Wins Re-Cut The Mole Captain Ersatz Corpsing Bilingual Bonus Up to Eleven Accidental Murder Manly Tears The Big Guy Romantic False Lead The Sociopath Mundane Made Awesome Chiaroscuro Air-Vent Passageway Expository Hairstyle Change Cain and Abel Age Lift The Dragon "Where Are They Now?" 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Red Shirt Dark Action Girl Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Psychological Thriller Made of Iron Killed Mid-Sentence Famous Last Words Comically Missing the Point Toplessness from the Back Gender Flip Bottomless Magazines And Starring World of Ham Due to the Dead Bunny-Ears Lawyer Music Stories Dirty Cop Rule of Symbolism Blackmail Break the Haughty Informed Ability An Aesop Ass Shove MacGuffin Hong Kong Films Television Movie Index Chekhov's Skill Wham Line Historical Villain Upgrade Authority Equals Asskicking Fate Worse than Death Gilligan Cut There Is No Kill Like Overkill Manipulative Bastard Captain Obvious Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Affectionate Parody Black Dude Dies First Retirony Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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