Tropescilloscope: Properly Paranoid

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

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Is Serious Business Bait-and-Switch Aside Glance Defiant to the End Aluminum Christmas Trees Pretty Little Headshots Drowning My Sorrows Evil Laugh The Big Guy And Starring The Quiet One Meaningful Background Event Anyone Can Die The '50s Big Brother Instinct Plucky Comic Relief Drill Sergeant Nasty You Have Failed Me Neck Lift Attempted Rape Action Girl Slashed Throat Jitter Cam Historical Hero Upgrade Death Glare Daylight Horror Leaning on the Fourth Wall The Load Room Full of Crazy Arch-Enemy Ascended Extra Your Head A-Splode N-Word Privileges The Stoner Our Vampires Are Different Eye Scream Anachronic Order Corpsing Villain Protagonist Awesome, but Impractical Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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Bloodier and Gorier Bittersweet Ending Suddenly SHOUTING! Eureka Moment Camp Gay Ironic Echo Made of Iron Wham Shot Parental Incest Death by Sex Christmas Movies Index Break the Cutie The Reveal Disney Villain Death In Name Only Arc Words Scary Black Man Demoted to Extra Pragmatic Adaptation Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Gone Horribly Right Posthumous Character Properly Paranoid Artistic License – Military Back from the Dead "Well Done, Son!" Guy Captain Obvious Henpecked Husband Gainax Ending Slasher Movie Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Beauty Is Never Tarnished Match Cut Dropped a Bridge on Him Gory Discretion Shot Naïve Newcomer The Cavalry Left the Background Music On I Have Your Wife Dark Action Girl Five-Man Band Grey and Gray Morality Karmic Death Curb-Stomp Battle Would Hurt a Child Anguished Declaration of Love Gratuitous English Sassy Black Woman Neck Snap Artistic License – Gun Safety Men Are the Expendable Gender Outrun the Fireball Vitriolic Best Buds Double Entendre Martial Arts Movie Sole Survivor Adaptation Expansion Those Two Bad Guys Random Events Plot Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Country Matters What You Are in the Dark Fat Bastard Kids Are Cruel All for Nothing Redshirt Army Killed Mid-Sentence Punny Name Action Genre Ship Tease Silence Is Golden Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Not Quite Dead Faking the Dead Bury Your Gays Diabolus ex Machina Overly Long Gag Gilligan Cut Mr. Exposition Retired Badass Cassandra Truth Kick the Son of a Bitch Man on Fire Darker and Edgier Hong Kong Films What the Hell, Hero? 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Fate Worse than Death Demonic Possession Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Real Life Writes the Plot Beta Couple Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Big Eater Mistaken for Gay The Bully Call-Back Alpha Bitch Asshole Victim Dying Moment of Awesome Distracted by the Sexy How We Got Here Alas, Poor Villain Getting Crap Past the Radar Took a Level in Badass Rule of Symbolism Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Reality Has No Subtitles Once More, with Clarity! Bi the Way Parental Abandonment Bar Brawl Unwitting Instigator of Doom A Date with Rosie Palms Police Brutality Covers Always Lie Hollywood Darkness Humans Are Bastards Thriller Small Name, Big Ego The Atoner Sanity Slippage Not So Stoic Annoying Younger Sibling Hypocrite Empathic Environment The Musical Never Trust a Trailer Groin Attack Cool Shades Rule of Funny Frame-Up Index of Film Westerns I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The Power of Love Intergenerational Friendship Unusually Uninteresting Sight Ass Shove Leitmotif Mooks Meet Cute Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Double-Meaning Title Green-Eyed Monster World of Ham Blackmail Fantastic Racism Idiot Ball Really Gets Around Eagleland Male Gaze Cluster F-Bomb Ms. Fanservice I Did What I Had to Do Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Determinator aka: The Determinator Dirty Cop Jump Scare Pay Evil unto Evil Sports Stories Papa Wolf Light Is Not Good Pet the Dog Abusive Parents MacGuffin Big Damn Heroes Star-Crossed Lovers Badass Bookworm Tap on the Head Scenery Gorn Big Bad An Axe to Grind Rule of Three Drives Like Crazy Yandere Even Evil Has Standards Informed Ability Guile Hero Laughing Mad Maybe Ever After Pretty in Mink He Who Fights Monsters Foregone Conclusion Happily Married "Shaggy Dog" Story Bald of Evil Jerkass Race Against the Clock Video Credits Twist Ending Artistic License – Geography Affably Evil Totally Radical Implacable Man Stylistic Suck Based on a True Story Cool Car '80s Hair Dies Wide Open Developing Doomed Characters The Remake Truth in Television folderlabel The Voiceless Epic Fail Historical In-Joke Bullying a Dragon Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Fiery Redhead Actually Pretty Funny Blatant Lies All Men Are Perverts Meaningful Name Brutal Honesty Stealth Hi/Bye An Aesop Card-Carrying Villain Heroes Want Redheads Television Movie Index Let's Get Dangerous! Wrong Genre Savvy As Long as It Sounds Foreign A God Am I Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Large Ham Mugging the Monster Broken Bird Kill 'em All Unspoken Plan Guarantee Only Sane Man Breaking the Fourth Wall Amoral Attorney Adaptation Name Change Spiteful Spit Pragmatic Villainy Face–Heel Turn Plot Hole Important Haircut Evil vs. Evil Final Girl Agony of the Feet Evil Brit Sealed Evil in a Can The '70s Psychopathic Manchild Easily Forgiven 20 Minutes into the Future Accidental Murder A.I. Is a Crapshoot Disappeared Dad Black Comedy Rape Bond One-Liner Sadistic Choice All There in the Script Get Out! Heterosexual Life-Partners Not Even Bothering with the Accent Animated Credits Opening Worthy Opponent As Himself Noodle Incident Tranquil Fury Eiffel Tower Effect Hooker with a Heart of Gold Eyepatch of Power Didn't Think This Through Logo Joke Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Death by Adaptation Deliberate Values Dissonance Nice Hat Manly Tears Earn Your Happy Ending Shout-Out Improvised Weapon Stock Footage Offscreen Moment of Awesome Mystery and Detective Films Catch-Phrase Reasonable Authority Figure The Vamp Karma Houdini Hypocritical Humor Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Bound and Gagged Coming-of-Age Story Unreliable Narrator Science Fiction Films Shower Scene Dull Surprise Loophole Abuse Rule of Cool Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The Lancer Dark Reprise Cold-Blooded Torture Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Black and Gray Morality Not So Different Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Cowboy Cop Death of a Child Exactly What It Says on the Tin Immune to Bullets Camera Abuse Never My Fault Training Montage Tagline Closed Circle Bare Your Midriff Foil Villain Ball Adaptational Heroism Award-Bait Song The Smurfette Principle Defrosting Ice Queen The X of Y There Is No Kill Like Overkill Imagine Spot Femme Fatale