Tropescilloscope: Pre-Asskicking One-Liner

To do a One-Liner right before you beat someone up. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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You Killed My Father The Faceless Vitriolic Best Buds Black Comedy Bald of Evil From Bad to Worse Italian Films Christmas Movies Index Disappeared Dad Evil Is Petty Anachronism Stew Chase Scene Very Loosely Based on a True Story Scare Chord Rich Bitch Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Dramedy A God Am I Combat Pragmatist Works Set in World War II The '70s Toplessness from the Back Artistic License – History Noodle Incident The Hero Funny Foreigner No-Sell Nothing Is Scarier Hollywood Law Bolivian Army Ending Dirty Old Man Punny Name All Men Are Perverts Silence Is Golden Children Are Innocent Casting Gag Shipper on Deck Abusive Parents Adaptation Dye-Job Adaptational Attractiveness Rape as Drama Jitter Cam Death by Adaptation Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Big Applesauce Adorkable Epic Fail Re-Cut Anachronic Order Cassandra Truth Leave the Camera Running Soundtrack Dissonance Punch-Clock Villain Cool Shades Good Is Not Nice Drowning My Sorrows Dark and Troubled Past Parental Incest Facial Horror Drugs Are Bad Lighter and Softer Bar Brawl The Lancer Military and Warfare Films Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Cat Fight Historical In-Joke Martial Arts Movie No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Not So Above It All Getting Crap Past the Radar Scenery Gorn Everyone Has Standards Mercy Kill Did Not Get the Girl Loophole Abuse Deliberately Monochrome War Is Hell Dull Surprise Make It Look Like an Accident Romantic Comedy Heterosexual Life-Partners The Casanova Real Life Hair-Trigger Temper I Did What I Had to Do Undying Loyalty Based on a True Story BFG Genre Shift The Stoner Beta Couple Bound and Gagged Slashed Throat And the Adventure Continues Smoking Is Cool Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Deliberate Values Dissonance Brutal Honesty Suspiciously Similar Substitute The Un-Reveal The Chick Mystery and Detective Films The Mafia Ripped from the Headlines No Celebrities Were Harmed Cool Guns Belligerent Sexual Tension Chewing the Scenery Match Cut Morality Pet Running Gag Sole Survivor Downer Ending Sexy Discretion Shot Double-Meaning Title Well-Intentioned Extremist Villain with Good Publicity Body Horror '80s Hair No OSHA Compliance Your Head A-Splode Gold Digger Black and Gray Morality Asshole Victim Irony Recycled IN SPACE! 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Is Serious Business Costume Porn Sealed Evil in a Can Brick Joke Animal Motifs Developing Doomed Characters Fiery Redhead Bring My Brown Pants Line-of-Sight Name Card-Carrying Villain Never Found the Body Precision F-Strike Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Dissonant Serenity Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Not What It Looks Like Visual Pun Dramatic Gun Cock Nice Guy Fun with Acronyms Moment Killer The Reveal Improbable Aiming Skills Ghost Fiction Action Genre Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Smug Snake Historical Hero Upgrade Suspiciously Specific Denial Foil Death by Sex Armor-Piercing Question Translation Convention Narrator Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Red Right Hand I Need a Freaking Drink The Bad Guy Wins Spiteful Spit Retired Badass Early-Bird Cameo Gory Discretion Shot Bad "Bad Acting" Beauty Is Never Tarnished Hoist by His Own Petard It Will Never Catch On It's Personal Genre Throwback Overly Long Gag Manipulative Bastard Car Fu Bare Your Midriff Not Even Bothering with the Accent May–December Romance Bad Boss Pimped-Out Dress Extreme Doormat Horror Films Funny Background Event Logo Joke Manic Pixie Dream Girl Bittersweet Ending Retirony Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Not So Stoic Defrosting Ice Queen Shower Scene Canon Foreigner Jerk with a Heart of Gold Fourth Date Marriage Redemption Equals Death Men Are the Expendable Gender Eiffel Tower Effect Even Evil Has Standards Anyone Can Die Black Comedy Rape Every Car Is a Pinto Fingore Together in Death Affably Evil From Nobody to Nightmare Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Break the Cutie timeperiod Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Fatal Family Photo Spared by the Adaptation Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Face Death with Dignity British Films Straight Gay Drill Sergeant Nasty Genre Savvy Babies Ever After Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Action Girl Love Triangle Take a Third Option Superhero Deadpan Snarker In the Back Shoot the Shaggy Dog Rule of Funny Be Careful What You Wish For Fanservice Continuity Nod Call-Forward La Résistance Back from the Dead Red Herring Refuge in Audacity Death by Irony Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Love at First Sight Bond Villain Stupidity Unspoken Plan Guarantee Knife Nut The Load The Quiet One Wrong Genre Savvy Attempted Rape Fatal Flaw Cool Old Lady I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Sports Stories Your Cheating Heart "Shaggy Dog" Story Neck Lift Sassy Black Woman Chekhov's Skill Let's Get Dangerous! 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Faking the Dead Dying Moment of Awesome Crapsack World Science Fiction Films Dual Wielding Russian Films Badass Normal Dark Is Not Evil Immune to Bullets Henpecked Husband Only Known by Their Nickname Agony of the Feet Shown Their Work Interrupted Suicide World of Ham Better to Die than Be Killed Public Domain Feature Films Curb-Stomp Battle Captain Ersatz Karmic Death Ambiguous Ending Spiritual Successor A.I. Is a Crapshoot Taking You with Me Honor Before Reason Expy Insult Backfire Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Ironic Echo Vomit Discretion Shot Due to the Dead Psycho for Hire Protagonist Title Evil Sounds Deep Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Hope Spot Animal Title Index Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! As You Know In Medias Res Artistic License – Physics The Vamp Half the Man He Used to Be Pay Evil unto Evil Flipping the Bird Pyrrhic Victory Up to Eleven German Films Hero of Another Story Would Hurt a Child