Tropescilloscope: Police Brutality

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It Can Think Reality Is Unrealistic Amusing Injuries No OSHA Compliance Adaptational Badass Facial Horror Film Noir Animated Credits Opening Hair-Trigger Temper All Men Are Perverts Scare Chord Gorn Exactly What It Says on the Tin Green-Eyed Monster Irony Disappeared Dad Love Triangle Funny Background Event Cruel and Unusual Death Spiteful Spit Apocalypse How A Date with Rosie Palms Hero of Another Story Genre Shift Together in Death Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Morality Pet Composite Character Hooker with a Heart of Gold I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Developing Doomed Characters In the Back After the End Offscreen Moment of Awesome The Hero Silence Is Golden Last-Name Basis Ironic Echo Mighty Whitey Pimped-Out Dress Drill Sergeant Nasty "Shaggy Dog" Story Villain Ball Agony of the Feet Never My Fault Only in It for the Money A God Am I Serial Killer Obstructive Bureaucrat Meaningful Echo Brutal Honesty Guns Akimbo Riddle for the Ages No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Light Is Not Good Hate Sink Bullying a Dragon Bowdlerise Daddy's Girl Disproportionate Retribution The Un-Reveal Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Deus ex Machina Star-Crossed Lovers A.I. Is a Crapshoot Those Two Bad Guys Bloodier and Gorier Big Brother Instinct Deal with the Devil Public Domain Feature Films All There in the Script Bavarian Fire Drill Took a Level in Jerkass Roaring Rampage of Revenge Moment Killer Instant Death Bullet Bloody Hilarious Cool Car timeperiod Dark and Troubled Past The Mafia Homage Only a Flesh Wound Author Appeal Imagine Spot Cain and Abel Men Are the Expendable Gender Never Trust a Trailer Bait-and-Switch Australian Movies Greater-Scope Villain Real Life Writes the Plot Establishing Character Moment Those Wacky Nazis The Voiceless An Axe to Grind Four-Temperament Ensemble The Alcoholic Ungrateful Bastard Chewing the Scenery Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Babies Ever After Danny Peary Cult Movies List The Smart Guy Logo Joke Unusual Euphemism Jerkass Has a Point Manipulative Bastard Deadpan Snarker Title Drop Better to Die than Be Killed Rewatch Bonus The Chick Black Best Friend Cool Old Lady Offscreen Teleportation Sexy Discretion Shot The Ghost Your Cheating Heart Not What It Looks Like Missing Mom Affably Evil Worthy Opponent Double Entendre Neck Snap Chekhov's Gun I Need a Freaking Drink Re-Cut Show Within a Show Nice Hat Red Right Hand All Just a Dream Punch-Clock Villain Eagleland Would Hurt a Child Bland-Name Product Loads and Loads of Characters The Casanova Failed a Spot Check Kids Are Cruel Blood Knight Product Placement I'm a Humanitarian Dies Wide Open Your Head A-Splode Self-Deprecation Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Freeze-Frame Bonus Whole Plot Reference Body Horror Dumb Blonde Adaptational Attractiveness Totally Radical In Medias Res Book-Ends Fantastic Racism Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Five-Man Band Big Bad Duumvirate The Stoner Nice Guy Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Red Shirt All Girls Want Bad Boys Training Montage Names to Run Away from Really Fast Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Crapsack World She's Got Legs Expository Hairstyle Change Badass Longcoat Bury Your Gays You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Horror Comedy Dark Is Not Evil Deconstruction Fate Worse than Death Shipper on Deck Fanservice Extra Shell-Shocked Veteran Badass Grandpa Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Fainting Japanese Films Shout-Out Older Than They Look Those Two Guys Even Evil Has Loved Ones Artistic License – Law Blatant Lies Fantasy Films Italian Films Annoying Younger Sibling All for Nothing Hollywood Darkness Outrun the Fireball Russian Films Even Evil Has Standards Word of God Drugs Are Bad "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Running Gag Death of a Child Destination Defenestration Narrator Shoot the Shaggy Dog Freudian Excuse Wounded Gazelle Gambit Too Dumb to Live Dirty Old Man Oh, Crap! Dull Surprise Becoming the Mask Took a Level in Badass Christmas Movies Index The Stinger Combat Pragmatist Creator Cameo Improbable Weapon User Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Rape as Drama Action Survivor Sports Stories French Films Bare Your Midriff Black and Gray Morality British Films Gainax Ending Casting Gag Mexican Standoff Television Movie Index Call-Forward Zombie Stories Death by Sex Beauty Is Never Tarnished Pragmatic Villainy Country Matters Conspicuous CG Dying Moment of Awesome Groin Attack Parental Incest Sinister Minister Fish out of Water Military and Warfare Films Novelization Insane Troll Logic Sci-Fi Horror No-Sell B-Movie Punny Name Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Boom, Headshot! Expy Catapult Nightmare German Films Henpecked Husband Match Cut Dissonant Serenity Cowboy Cop Adaptational Heroism Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Kick the Dog Stock Footage Batman Gambit As the Good Book Says... 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It's All About Me Fake Shemp Demoted to Extra True Companions For Want of a Nail Mood Whiplash Ambiguously Gay Thriller Bond One-Liner Plucky Comic Relief Vitriolic Best Buds Jitter Cam Amoral Attorney Alliterative Name Deliberately Monochrome Soundtrack Dissonance Chiaroscuro Card-Carrying Villain Villainous Breakdown I Have Your Wife Retired Badass Random Events Plot Red Herring The Remake The Bully Big Applesauce What the Hell, Hero? Psychopathic Manchild And I Must Scream O.O.C. Is Serious Business Plot Hole Wicked Cultured Does Not Like Shoes Early Installment Weirdness Implacable Man The Faceless More Dakka Cold-Blooded Torture Scenery Gorn Crucified Hero Shot Slasher Smile Broken Bird Slasher Movie Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Shirtless Scene Woman in White Tranquil Fury Adaptation Expansion Anti-Hero You Have Failed Me Rasputinian Death Woman Scorned Setting Update Dutch Angle Poor Communication Kills Eldritch Abomination Big Fancy House Suspiciously Similar Substitute Determinator Ghost Fiction Drives Like Crazy Badass Bookworm Betty and Veronica As You Know Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Mama Bear Red Eyes, Take Warning Mercy Kill Canon Foreigner Visual Pun Cat Scare Flashback Contrived Coincidence Leave the Camera Running All There in the Manual Daylight Horror Humiliation Conga Pretty Little Headshots Bound and Gagged Almost Kiss Evil Is Petty Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality In Name Only Karma Houdini Malevolent Masked Men Suspiciously Specific Denial Villain with Good Publicity Aluminum Christmas Trees Jerk with a Heart of Gold Cassandra Truth Eureka Moment Have a Gay Old Time Adorkable Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Heroic Sacrifice Distracted by the Sexy No Antagonist Disney Villain Death Accidental Murder Parental Neglect Antagonist Title Suddenly SHOUTING! 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The Big Guy Anguished Declaration of Love My Beloved Smother Good Is Not Nice Not Using the "Z" Word Room Full of Crazy You Killed My Father Trailers Always Spoil Curse Cut Short Brother–Sister Incest Covers Always Lie Extremely Short Timespan Blackmail Idiot Ball Very Loosely Based on a True Story Arc Words Revenge Major Injury Underreaction Hoist by His Own Petard Exact Words Camp Gay The '60s Cloudcuckoolander Framing Device Left the Background Music On Red Oni, Blue Oni Air-Vent Passageway Artistic License – Gun Safety Obviously Evil Black Comedy Market-Based Title Earn Your Happy Ending Adaptation Name Change Rich Bitch Twist Ending Kill 'em All Unwitting Instigator of Doom Vacation Films Hypocrite Curb-Stomp Battle Call-Back Break the Haughty Abusive Parents Fan Disservice Manly Tears Madness Mantra Politically Incorrect Villain Heel Realization Damsel in Distress Friend to All Children Only One Name Really Gets Around Sassy Black Woman Adapted Out Parental Abandonment Mythology Gag Laughing Mad Sole Survivor Shown Their Work Big-Bad Ensemble Defiant to the End Cool Guns La Résistance An Aesop Historical-Domain Character Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Insistent Terminology Reasonable Authority Figure Blood from the Mouth Disney Death Hero Antagonist Ominous Latin Chanting He Knows Too Much Accidental Misnaming Bunny-Ears Lawyer No Name Given Villain Protagonist Half the Man He Used to Be Grievous Bottley Harm Final Girl No Ending The Dragon Dwindling Party Put on a Bus Rule of Three Abhorrent Admirer Taking You with Me Epic Movie Truth in Television Foregone Conclusion Shut Up, Hannibal! 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