Tropescilloscope: Properly Paranoid

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

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Gratuitous English This Is Gonna Suck The Oner Anyone Can Die Stock Footage Hooker with a Heart of Gold The Stoner Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Homage Spared by the Adaptation Non-Indicative Name Kill 'em All Disproportionate Retribution Romantic False Lead folderlabel Darkest Hour Blackmail Roaring Rampage of Revenge Mind Screw Translation Convention Batman Gambit Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Alliterative Name Drives Like Crazy Novelization Neck Snap A Date with Rosie Palms Stalker with a Crush Dark and Troubled Past Bury Your Gays Ghost Fiction Eyepatch of Power "The Reason You Suck" Speech My God, What Have I Done? Hero Antagonist You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Here We Go Again! 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