Tropescilloscope: Pay Evil unto Evil

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