Tropescilloscope: Properly Paranoid

Characters suspect that somebody is after them. They're right. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Fish out of Water Mama Bear Earn Your Happy Ending Brother–Sister Incest The Starscream Fun with Acronyms Even Evil Has Standards Spanner in the Works Does This Remind You of Anything? Men Are the Expendable Gender The Faceless Darker and Edgier Parental Abandonment Gorn The Chessmaster Bittersweet Ending Dissonant Serenity Auto Erotica Black Best Friend Ripped from the Headlines Agony of the Feet Mundane Made Awesome Hell Is That Noise Made of Iron Translation Convention Determinator Imagine Spot Fatal Family Photo Mr. Exposition Once More, with Clarity! Bavarian Fire Drill Abhorrent Admirer Shown Their Work Chiaroscuro One-Man Army Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? After the End Jerk Jock Retired Badass Ambiguously Gay Romantic Comedy Mercy Kill Star-Crossed Lovers Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Homage Hong Kong Films Gratuitous English From Nobody to Nightmare Gone Horribly Right Sports Stories Slasher Movie Big Brother Instinct Heroic BSoD Toplessness from the Back 20 Minutes into the Future Funny Background Event Never My Fault Redshirt Army Parental Substitute Cowboy Cop Well-Intentioned Extremist Woman Scorned She's Got Legs It's Personal Cat Scare Face Death with Dignity Failed a Spot Check Plot Hole Butt-Monkey Slap-Slap-Kiss Broken Pedestal Worthy Opponent Superhero BFG Major Injury Underreaction Meaningful Background Event Immune to Bullets Mugging the Monster French Films Antagonist Title What the Hell, Hero? Informed Ability Dirty Coward Be Careful What You Wish For The Hero Dies Sacrificial Lion Guns Akimbo In Medias Res Intrepid Reporter Cain and Abel Hate Sink Smoking Is Cool Pretty Little Headshots Alpha Bitch I Did What I Had to Do Kick the Dog The '90s Actor Allusion Fatal Flaw Combat Pragmatist Nothing Is Scarier Big Damn Heroes Silent Movie Funny Foreigner Put on a Bus Advertised Extra Extreme Doormat The Un-Reveal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Non-Indicative Name Obviously Evil Names to Run Away from Really Fast Super Strength Television Movie Index Adaptational Badass Meaningful Name Horror Comedy Costume Porn Crapsack World Politically Incorrect Villain Victoria's Secret Compartment Artistic License – Gun Safety Pet the Dog Works Set in World War II Femme Fatale Famous Last Words The Voiceless Scenery Porn Spiritual Successor The Smurfette Principle Red Oni, Blue Oni Tempting Fate It's All About Me Maybe Ever After And the Adventure Continues Shell-Shocked Veteran Reality Ensues Drugs Are Bad The Stoner Betty and Veronica Alliterative Name Dwindling Party Exact Words Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Kubrick Stare The Brute Bolivian Army Ending Artistic License – Biology Dirty Old Man Improbable Aiming Skills Obfuscating Stupidity Slasher Smile Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Driven to Suicide Green-Eyed Monster Evil Laugh Retcon Bottomless Magazines "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Badass Longcoat Humiliation Conga Rape as Drama For the Evulz Parental Incest Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Psychological Thriller As You Know Cool Guns Author Appeal Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Not Using the "Z" Word Action Genre Ungrateful Bastard Everyone Has Standards Rewatch Bonus Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Creepy Child Epic Movie Zombie Stories Five-Man Band The Quiet One Ass Shove Malevolent Masked Men Covers Always Lie Training Montage Science Fiction Films Film Series All There in the Manual Dressing as the Enemy Cat Fight Hypocritical Humor Title Drop Wham Line Wounded Gazelle Gambit Soft Glass The '50s Hypocrite Spell My Name with an "S" Catapult Nightmare Creator Cameo Oh, Crap! My Beloved Smother Arranged Marriage Mighty Whitey Beard of Evil Death of a Child And Starring Shout-Out Blood from the Mouth Central Theme Suspiciously Similar Substitute Pre-Mortem One-Liner Say My Name Running Gag Fate Worse than Death Male Frontal Nudity Dumb Blonde Blackmail Developing Doomed Characters Villain Song Animated Credits Opening Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Gilligan Cut Time Skip Never Found the Body Corrupt Corporate Executive Fourth Date Marriage Blood Knight Enemy Mine Double Entendre Destination Defenestration Dramatic Gun Cock Music Stories Logo Joke Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Determinator aka: The Determinator Love at First Sight Military and Warfare Films Dies Wide Open Babies Ever After Product Placement Call-Forward Self-Deprecation Disney Villain Death Belligerent Sexual Tension Not What It Looks Like Boom, Headshot! 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Due to the Dead Kick the Son of a Bitch Historical In-Joke Trailers Always Spoil Manly Tears All There in the Script Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Fiery Redhead Canon Foreigner No Antagonist Disguised in Drag Black Comedy The Oner Horror Films Take a Third Option Apocalypse How Deal with the Devil Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Scenery Gorn Stealth Pun Loophole Abuse Pragmatic Adaptation Revenge Country Matters Spared by the Adaptation Greater-Scope Villain Vomit Indiscretion Shot No Celebrities Were Harmed Attempted Rape Those Two Bad Guys Despair Event Horizon I'm a Humanitarian The Atoner Bi the Way Spiteful Spit Artistic License – Law Ship Tease Brick Joke Riddle for the Ages Overly Long Gag Bloodier and Gorier La Résistance Biopic Race Against the Clock Truth in Television Knife Nut One Steve Limit Bilingual Bonus Badass in a Nice Suit The Alleged Car Card-Carrying Villain Not Quite Dead Bond One-Liner Big "NO!" 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