Tropescilloscope: Properly Paranoid

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

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The Ace Face Death with Dignity Line-of-Sight Name Loads and Loads of Characters World of Ham Stepford Smiler Stylistic Suck Obfuscating Stupidity Shown Their Work "The Reason You Suck" Speech Framing Device The X of Y All Men Are Perverts Silence Is Golden Worthy Opponent Bowdlerise Dramatic Irony Jerkass Has a Point Early Installment Weirdness Be Careful What You Wish For Shell-Shocked Veteran Dumb Blonde Australian Movies Revenge Green-Eyed Monster It Will Never Catch On The Dragon Auto Erotica As the Good Book Says... Affectionate Parody Wham Shot Works Set in World War II Cool Guns Rape as Drama Scary Black Man Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Aww, Look! 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