Tropescilloscope: Police Brutality

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Riddle for the Ages Flipping the Bird Gainax Ending Actually Pretty Funny Naïve Newcomer Ambiguous Disorder Establishing Character Moment Needs Wiki Magic Love Moment Killer Parental Substitute Face–Heel Turn Big Applesauce Serial Killer Gorn Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Blood Knight Never Found the Body Mr. Exposition Artistic License – Biology Dark and Troubled Past Not So Above It All How We Got Here Sir Swears-a-Lot Femme Fatale Worthy Opponent Advertised Extra Death Seeker Suspiciously Similar Substitute Protagonist Title Manipulative Bastard Drugs Are Bad Defiant to the End The Hero Dies Chekhov's Gun Faux Affably Evil Tap on the Head Rated M for Manly Bloody Hilarious Crucified Hero Shot Totally Radical Children Are Innocent Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Dutch Angle Beauty Is Never Tarnished Major Injury Underreaction Daddy's Girl Victoria's Secret Compartment Aside Glance In Name Only Stepford Smiler Action Prologue A God Am I Evil Brit Bond One-Liner Token Minority Scary Black Man Historical-Domain Character Gold Digger Bar Brawl Adaptation Name Change Chiaroscuro Russian Films Shell-Shocked Veteran Adapted Out I'm a Humanitarian Artistic License – Physics Jump Scare Historical Hero Upgrade Mood Whiplash Daylight Horror Canadian Movies Distracted by the Sexy Pre-Mortem One-Liner Guns Akimbo Race Against the Clock Blackmail Refuge in Audacity Made of Iron Parental Abandonment The Stoic Time Skip A.I. Is a Crapshoot Maybe Ever After Foil My Beloved Smother Spiritual Successor Bad Boss Red Oni, Blue Oni A Father to His Men Oh, Crap! Bittersweet Ending La Résistance Overprotective Dad Big Eater Race Lift Tagline Ironic Echo For the Evulz Earn Your Happy Ending Big-Bad Ensemble Slashed Throat Documentary Mad Scientist Nothing Is Scarier Twist Ending Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Groin Attack Call-Forward Adaptation Expansion Informed Ability Face Death with Dignity Mugging the Monster Anti-Hero Spanner in the Works The Chessmaster Precision F-Strike Drives Like Crazy Romantic Comedy And I Must Scream Double-Meaning Title Small Name, Big Ego Implacable Man Motor Mouth The Casanova Closed Circle He Who Fights Monsters Apocalypse How Pretty Little Headshots Rewatch Bonus Toplessness from the Back Unwitting Instigator of Doom Genre Throwback Meaningful Name Whole Plot Reference Vacation Films Black Best Friend Dogged Nice Guy Instant Death Bullet Meaningful Echo I Have Your Wife Eyepatch of Power Hero of Another Story Affably Evil Important Haircut Australian Movies Bloodless Carnage Crapsack World True Companions Antagonist Title Took a Level in Jerkass Reality Ensues Karmic Death What the Hell, Hero? 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Epilogue Central Theme Breaking the Fourth Wall Famous Last Words Obfuscating Stupidity Sealed Evil in a Can The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Deal with the Devil Dramedy My God, What Have I Done? Truth in Television Stealth Pun Framing Device Demoted to Extra The Reveal Villain Song Sacrificial Lion Asshole Victim Smoking Is Cool Improvised Weapon Hollywood Darkness Henpecked Husband Despair Event Horizon Auto Erotica Mercy Kill Does Not Like Shoes The Alleged Car Cassandra Truth What Happened to the Mouse? Wham Shot Insistent Terminology Kill 'em All Badass Normal Failed a Spot Check Arch-Enemy Cool Guns The Dog Bites Back Brainless Beauty May–December Romance Curb-Stomp Battle Enemy Mine Big Fancy House Only a Flesh Wound Ungrateful Bastard Beard of Evil Gender Flip Big Brother Instinct Military and Warfare Films Evil vs. Evil Adaptational Badass Artistic License – Geography Hollywood Law Anachronism Stew Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Death of a Child Villain with Good Publicity Pretty in Mink Irony Hate Sink Chase Scene Male Frontal Nudity Genre Shift The Lost Lenore Madness Mantra Nice Hat Deus ex Machina The Remake Ambiguous Ending Slasher Smile Taking the Bullet Male Gaze An Axe to Grind You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Unusually Uninteresting Sight Only in It for the Money Humans Are Bastards The X of Y Pyrrhic Victory Poor Communication Kills Really Gets Around Chekhov's Gunman Easily Forgiven "Well Done, Son!" Guy Dirty Cop All There in the Manual Works Set in World War II Bi the Way Beta Couple Brutal Honesty Revenge Handicapped Badass Evil Laugh Mooks Determinator aka: The Determinator Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! I Want My Beloved to Be Happy It's All About Me Disproportionate Retribution Would Hurt a Child Sequel Escalation Pet the Dog Mystery and Detective Films World of Ham Wicked Cultured Retirony Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Love at First Sight Frame-Up Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Canon Foreigner Honor Before Reason I Just Shot Marvin in the Face German Films Villain Protagonist Abhorrent Admirer Monumental Damage Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Exact Words Rasputinian Death The '70s As the Good Book Says... 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Straight Gay Composite Character Neck Lift Character Development Freudian Excuse The Ghost I Need a Freaking Drink Unusual Euphemism Real Life Writes the Plot Blatant Lies Action Genre Outrun the Fireball Novelization Horror Comedy Tranquil Fury Fire-Forged Friends Malevolent Masked Men Mr. Fanservice The Smurfette Principle Spiteful Spit Destination Defenestration The Cameo Covers Always Lie Card-Carrying Villain Large Ham Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Self-Deprecation Plot Hole Genre Savvy Pragmatic Adaptation Taking You with Me Artistic License – History Only Known by Their Nickname Unreliable Narrator Dark Reprise Undying Loyalty Grievous Bottley Harm Green-Eyed Monster Big Damn Heroes Annoying Younger Sibling Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Deliberate Values Dissonance Coming-of-Age Story Decoy Protagonist As You Know Shut Up, Hannibal! Put on a Bus The Bad Guy Wins The Faceless Not So Different Sports Stories timeperiod It Will Never Catch On Celebrity Paradox Comically Missing the Point The Quiet One Ascended Extra Shout-Out The '60s Villain Ball Fingore Beware the Nice Ones Cowboy Cop Accidental Misnaming Vampire Fiction Facial Horror Fantasy Films Evil Sounds Deep Crazy Jealous Guy Broken Aesop Fish out of Water Interrupted Suicide Scenery Gorn Dissonant Serenity Silence Is Golden Psychological Thriller Fake Shemp Cat Scare The Load A Minor Kidroduction Fan Disservice Music Stories Artistic License – Military Visual Pun Disney Villain Death Four-Temperament Ensemble Show Within a Show Japanese Films Cool Old Lady Heel Realization Captain Obvious "Awesome McCool" Name Actor Allusion Pragmatic Villainy Catapult Nightmare Cat Fight All Men Are Perverts Does This Remind You of Anything? The Mole Psycho for Hire Hoist by His Own Petard Rule of Funny Mexican Standoff The Big Guy Better to Die than Be Killed One-Word Title Offscreen Moment of Awesome Laser-Guided Karma Black Comedy Drill Sergeant Nasty Bottomless Magazines Obviously Evil Badass Grandpa The Great Depression Humiliation Conga Morality Pet Shown Their Work Big Bad Duumvirate The Oner Action Girl Title Drop One Steve Limit Conspicuous CG Alliterative Name You Have Failed Me Redshirt Army All Just a Dream Missing Mom Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Berserk Button Friend to All Children Sci-Fi Horror Sole Survivor Chewing the Scenery From Nobody to Nightmare The Ditz The Un-Reveal Man on Fire Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The Place Belligerent Sexual Tension Lighter and Softer Domestic Abuse The Bully Costume Porn Arranged Marriage Too Dumb to Live Deadpan Snarker Training Montage Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! This Is Gonna Suck Playing Gertrude Make It Look Like an Accident Properly Paranoid Stock Footage Anti-Villain Kids Are Cruel Nice Guy All Girls Want Bad Boys Authority Equals Asskicking War Is Hell Lock and Load Montage Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Manic Pixie Dream Girl Greater-Scope Villain Light Is Not Good Happily Married Agony of the Feet Rule of Cool The Voiceless Fanservice I Did What I Had to Do Disappeared Dad Book-Ends Even Evil Has Loved Ones Scenery Porn In Medias Res Awesome, but Impractical Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Author Avatar Shirtless Scene Kill It with Fire Cool Car Posthumous Character Affectionate Parody Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Wham Line No-Sell Almost Kiss Sadistic Choice Dies Wide Open Death by Adaptation Air-Vent Passageway Badass Longcoat Get Out! Not So Stoic Gratuitous English Evil Is Petty Reality Is Unrealistic Drowning My Sorrows Betty and Veronica An Aesop Shipper on Deck Dual Wielding Hero Antagonist Kick the Son of a Bitch '80s Hair Foreshadowing French Films Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Extremely Short Timespan Say My Name Roaring Rampage of Revenge Arc Words Immune to Bullets Only One Name The Lancer Dramatic Gun Cock The Starscream Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Good Is Not Nice Evil Plan MacGuffin Anachronic Order Obstructive Bureaucrat Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome For Want of a Nail Adorkable Only Sane Man Off-into-the-Distance Ending Funny Foreigner Slasher Movie Rousing Speech Expy The '80s The Dragon Names to Run Away from Really Fast Artistic License – Law Bolivian Army Ending Calling the Old Man Out The Dreaded Exactly What It Says on the Tin Setting Update Hypocrite Once More, with Clarity! NO INDOOR VOICE Foregone Conclusion Even Evil Has Standards Slap-Slap-Kiss You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Pay Evil unto Evil Spell My Name with an "S" The Sociopath Villain Opening Scene Red Shirt Did Not Get the Girl Blood from the Mouth Corrupt Corporate Executive Badass Bookworm Same Language Dub Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Abusive Parents Bunny-Ears Lawyer Super Strength Redemption Equals Death She's Got Legs Demonic Possession Freeze-Frame Bonus Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Sequel Hook Author Appeal Darkest Hour Anguished Declaration of Love From Bad to Worse Public Domain Feature Films Bland-Name Product Ripped from the Headlines Storming the Castle Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Skewed Priorities The Power of Love Ms. Fanservice Police Brutality Ugly Guy, Hot Wife There Is No Kill Like Overkill Black Dude Dies First Film Noir Badass in a Nice Suit Word of God Big Bad In the Back Heroic BSoD Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Mythology Gag B-Movie Smug Snake Cold-Blooded Torture Thriller Bowdlerise Double Entendre Those Two Bad Guys Car Fu Bait-and-Switch Parental Neglect Red Right Hand Credits Gag Line-of-Sight Name Manchild Woman Scorned The Musical Dying Moment of Awesome Well-Intentioned Extremist Expository Hairstyle Change Not Even Bothering with the Accent Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Horror Films No Name Given Dirty Coward Idiot Ball Kubrick Stare Animal Motifs Depraved Bisexual Tempting Fate O.O.C. Is Serious Business Bilingual Bonus Fate Worse than Death Grey and Gray Morality Creative Closing Credits Insane Troll Logic Country Matters Serious Business Sinister Minister Fourth Date Marriage Getting Crap Past the Radar Those Two Guys She Cleans Up Nicely Martial Arts Movie Bond Villain Stupidity Wretched Hive Disguised in Drag Trailers Always Spoil Body Horror Ghost Fiction Bavarian Fire Drill Wounded Gazelle Gambit Red Eyes, Take Warning Chekhov's Skill Romantic False Lead Jitter Cam Disney Death Silent Movie Mighty Whitey N-Word Privileges Batman Gambit Naked People Are Funny Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Film Series Hong Kong Films Psychopathic Manchild Evil Is Hammy Fatal Family Photo Your Head A-Splode Mind Screw Not What It Looks Like No Antagonist Men Are the Expendable Gender No Ending Curse Cut Short Contrived Coincidence The Film of the Book The Hero Last-Name Basis Knife Nut An Arm and a Leg Together in Death Danny Peary Cult Movies List Karma Houdini Love Triangle Biopic Guile Hero Hooker with a Heart of Gold Rape as Drama Peek-a-Boo Corpse Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Mistaken for Gay Break the Haughty Shower Scene Plucky Comic Relief Rich Bitch Room Full of Crazy The End... Or Is It? Overly Long Gag Deliberately Monochrome Ambiguously Gay Mama Bear Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Deconstruction Dwindling Party Never Trust a Trailer Intrepid Reporter Downer Ending Wrong Genre Savvy Heroic Sacrifice What You Are in the Dark Rule of Three Match Cut Hypocritical Humor Adaptational Villainy Recycled IN SPACE! Punch-Clock Villain Ax-Crazy As Long as It Sounds Foreign Adult Fear Black and Gray Morality Animated Credits Opening Eiffel Tower Effect Re-Cut Everyone Has Standards The Ace Driven to Suicide Corpsing Amoral Attorney Dull Surprise Film Noir Index Let's Get Dangerous! Christmas Movies Index Manly Tears