Tropescilloscope: Psycho for Hire
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Mexican Standoff
Fantasy Films
Sir Swears-a-Lot
Rule of Symbolism
Lighter and Softer
Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Spanner in the Works
The Dreaded
As the Good Book Says...
The Alcoholic
Broken Bird
Dirty Cop
Mama Bear
Film Noir Index
Dutch Angle
Dark Is Not Evil
Rule of Three
Fun with Acronyms
Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Running Gag
Pragmatic Adaptation
Never Trust a Trailer
Leitmotif
Make It Look Like an Accident
Arranged Marriage
Those Two Guys
Children Are Innocent
Car Fu
The Lancer
Fake Shemp
Shell-Shocked Veteran
Truth in Television
Neck Snap
Adorkable
Reality Ensues
Made of Explodium
Failed a Spot Check
Intergenerational Friendship
Your Head A-Splode
Eiffel Tower Effect
Belligerent Sexual Tension
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Retired Badass
Immune to Bullets
Vomit Discretion Shot
Greater-Scope Villain
Be Careful What You Wish For
Slasher Smile
Real Life
For Want of a Nail
Asshole Victim
Kids Are Cruel
Foil
BrotherSister Incest
"Shaggy Dog" Story
World of Ham
The Bad Guy Wins
Off-into-the-Distance Ending
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Tap on the Head
Call-Back
Precision F-Strike
Made of Iron
Captain Ersatz
Horror Comedy
Cool Shades
Rule of Cool
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Mercy Kill
Anachronism Stew
Humans Are Bastards
Knife Nut
Recap /
RiffTrax
aka: Riff Trax Movies
Mooks
Dark Action Girl
Brainless Beauty
Captain Obvious
Canon Foreigner
Break the Haughty
You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
Beta Couple
Scenery Gorn
Really Gets Around
The Chick
Sexy Discretion Shot
Double-Meaning Title
Jerkass Has a Point
Canadian Movies
Deadpan Snarker
Dressing as the Enemy
Heel Realization
Dramatic Irony
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Nice Guy
Shoot the Shaggy Dog
All Girls Want Bad Boys
Genre Savvy
Developing Doomed Characters
Cold-Blooded Torture
Epic Movie
Fiery Redhead
Moment Killer
I'm a Humanitarian
All Just a Dream
Shipper on Deck
Vitriolic Best Buds
Vampire Fiction
Jerk with a Heart of Gold
What the Hell, Hero?
All Men Are Perverts
Central Theme
Bloodier and Gorier
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Product Placement
Meaningful Background Event
Breaking the Fourth Wall
Arc Words
Have a Gay Old Time
Neck Lift
Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Zombie Stories
Serious Business
Silent Movie
Evil Is Hammy
Face Death with Dignity
Say My Name
The Ditz
Fatal Family Photo
Mad Scientist
Romantic False Lead
All for Nothing
A Date with Rosie Palms
Body Horror
Dumb Blonde
Determinator
aka: The Determinator
Drugs Are Bad
Genre Shift
Chiaroscuro
Artistic License Gun Safety
Bi the Way
Double Entendre
And I Must Scream
Martial Arts Movie
Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Groin Attack
Black and Gray Morality
Never Found the Body
Card-Carrying Villain
No Ending
Put on a Bus
The End... Or Is It?
More Dakka
Love Triangle
O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Half the Man He Used to Be
Sequel Escalation
Never Trust a Trailer
aka: Trailers Always Lie
Break the Cutie
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
You Killed My Father
Sealed Evil in a Can
Abusive Parents
Ship Tease
You Have Failed Me
B-Movie
Guns Akimbo
Reality Is Unrealistic
Wham Line
Mood Whiplash
Hero of Another Story
Once More, with Clarity!
Broken Aesop
Covers Always Lie
Artistic License Law
Killed Mid-Sentence
Not So Above It All
Hypocrite
Jitter Cam
Adapted Out
The Great Depression
Damsel in Distress
Improbable Infant Survival
aka: Infant Immortality
Posthumous Character
Woman Scorned
Cowboy Cop
Antagonist Title
Hidden Depths
Brutal Honesty
Eureka Moment
Disney Villain Death
Politically Incorrect Villain
Spiteful Spit
Pretty Little Headshots
Guile Hero
Bond One-Liner
Drowning My Sorrows
In the Back
Bilingual Bonus
The Bully
The Un-Reveal
20 Minutes into the Future
Auto Erotica
Instant Death Bullet
Light Is Not Good
Woman in White
Abhorrent Admirer
Rape as Drama
Eagleland
Disney Death
Unresolved Sexual Tension
Action Girl
Fate Worse than Death
Dark and Troubled Past
Malevolent Masked Men
Manly Tears
Japanese Films
Character Development
The '60s
MayDecember Romance
Wounded Gazelle Gambit
The Big Guy
How We Got Here
Disguised in Drag
Ms. Fanservice
The '70s
Insane Troll Logic
After the End
Race Against the Clock
Stepford Smiler
Everyone Has Standards
I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Diabolus ex Machina
Black Comedy
Amusing Injuries
Improbable Weapon User
Big Fancy House
Overprotective Dad
In Name Only
Frame-Up
A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Knight Templar
Wicked Cultured
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience
Action Survivor
Blood Knight
Framing Device
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Index of Film Westerns
Historical In-Joke
Pragmatic Villainy
Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Heroic BSoD
Parental Neglect
Scary Black Man
Darker and Edgier
Manchild
Grievous Bottley Harm
As You Know
Serial Killer
Wrong Genre Savvy
Suspiciously Specific Denial
Psycho for Hire
Same Language Dub
Fire-Forged Friends
Bloody Hilarious
Cool Guns
Not What It Looks Like
Brick Joke
Villain Opening Scene
Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Villain with Good Publicity
Scare Chord
In Medias Res
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Adaptation Dye-Job
Animal Motifs
The Voiceless
It's Personal
Adult Fear
Protagonist Title
Better to Die than Be Killed
Adaptational Badass
Implacable Man
Anti-Villain
Hoist by His Own Petard
Cool Old Lady
Intrepid Reporter
Dirty Old Man
Not Quite Dead
Improvised Weapon
Only Sane Man
"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Red Eyes, Take Warning
Creator Cameo
Pretty in Mink
Slap-Slap-Kiss
Death of a Child
Sadistic Choice
The Chessmaster
timeperiod
It's All About Me
Enemy Mine
Only One Name
Bald of Evil
My God, What Have I Done?
Cool Old Guy
There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Blood from the Mouth
Never My Fault
Vacation Films
Anti-Hero
The Dog Bites Back
Curse Cut Short
Awesome, but Impractical
"Well Done, Son!" Guy
Psychopathic Manchild
Evil Sounds Deep
Bait-and-Switch
One-Word Title
Cat Scare
Handicapped Badass
Earn Your Happy Ending
Cloudcuckoolander
Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Redemption Equals Death
Hollywood Darkness
Evil vs. Evil
Men Are the Expendable Gender
Facial Horror
Lampshade Hanging
A Minor Kidroduction
Tempting Fate
Dies Wide Open
Logo Joke
Fanservice Extra
The Sociopath
The Stinger
Male Gaze
Left the Background Music On
Lock and Load Montage
Bond Villain Stupidity
Slashed Throat
Demonic Possession
Police Brutality
A God Am I
The Un-Favourite
aka: The Un Favorite
Jerk Jock
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Catch-Phrase
Mugging the Monster
Loads and Loads of Characters
Artistic License Military
Gone Horribly Right
Fingore
Bavarian Fire Drill
Trailers Always Spoil
Reasonable Authority Figure
Maybe Ever After
Villain Ball
Nice Hat
Bare Your Midriff
Crazy-Prepared
Fish out of Water
Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
Country Matters
Interrupted Suicide
Redshirt Army
Took a Level in Jerkass
Decoy Protagonist
All There in the Manual
What Happened to the Mouse?
Cain and Abel
Rewatch Bonus
Fantastic Racism
Back from the Dead
Whole Plot Reference
Almost Kiss
No Antagonist
The Faceless
Line-of-Sight Name
Agony of the Feet
Betty and Veronica
Combat Pragmatist
Only in It for the Money
Time Skip
The Quiet One
Overly Long Gag
Toilet Humour
aka: Toilet Humor
Call-Forward
Even Evil Has Standards
Bloodless Carnage
Public Domain Feature Films
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Continuity Nod
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Anachronic Order
Accidental Misnaming
Hate Sink
The '50s
Off with His Head!
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Major Injury Underreaction
Last-Name Basis
Villain Protagonist
The Vamp
Fanservice
Ax-Crazy
Bring My Brown Pants
Military and Warfare Films
Totally Radical
Unreliable Narrator
Soundtrack Dissonance
Apocalypse How
Boom, Headshot!
Mythology Gag
Word of God
Chekhov's Gunman
Artistic License Geography
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Ironic Echo
Bittersweet Ending
Badass Grandpa
Market-Based Title
Red Shirt
Comically Missing the Point
Kick the Dog
Karmic Death
Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
Cluster F-Bomb
Artistic License History
'80s Hair
Early Installment Weirdness
Disproportionate Retribution
Those Wacky Nazis
Air-Vent Passageway
She Cleans Up Nicely
Homage
Parental Substitute
Evil Plan
Historical-Domain Character
Here We Go Again!
Chase Scene
Pimped-Out Dress
Green-Eyed Monster
Your Cheating Heart
The Ace
Death Glare
Documentary
Film Series
Hair-Trigger Temper
Loophole Abuse
Toplessness from the Back
Shout-Out
Music Stories
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
The Mafia
Drives Like Crazy
Costume Porn
Affably Evil
Stylistic Suck
Offscreen Teleportation
Crazy Jealous Guy
Dogged Nice Guy
Five-Man Band
Suddenly SHOUTING!
Wretched Hive
Papa Wolf
Becoming the Mask
Daddy's Girl
Naked People Are Funny
Fatal Flaw
Big Damn Heroes
NO INDOOR VOICE
An Axe to Grind
Video Credits
Bunny-Ears Lawyer
The Mole
Love at First Sight
Ungrateful Bastard
Author Avatar
Only a Flesh Wound
Eyepatch of Power
Stealth Hi/Bye
Spell My Name with an "S"
Victoria's Secret Compartment
Would Hurt a Child
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
Funny Background Event
Berserk Button
La Résistance
The Lost Lenore
Funny Foreigner
Domestic Abuse
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Accidental Murder
Parental Incest
Visual Pun
Celebrity Paradox
Shower Scene
Super Strength
Spared by the Adaptation
Getting Crap Past the Radar
Television Movie Index
Conspicuous CG
Badass Boast
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Idiot Ball
Horror Films
Adaptational Heroism
One-Man Army
Motor Mouth
Author Appeal
Older Than They Look
Adaptation Expansion
Bound and Gagged
Early-Bird Cameo
Retcon
The Casanova
What You Are in the Dark
Gory Discretion Shot
The Atoner
Red Oni, Blue Oni
Aluminum Christmas Trees
Shut Up, Hannibal!
Action Prologue
Retirony
Straight Gay
Casting Gag
Mr. Fanservice
Defrosting Ice Queen
Black Dude Dies First
Heterosexual Life-Partners
The Hero Dies
Evil Brit
Butt-Monkey
Faking the Dead
Historical Hero Upgrade
Plucky Comic Relief
Get Out!
Black Comedy Rape
Deliberately Monochrome
Together in Death
Rasputinian Death
Did Not Get the Girl
Honor Before Reason
Age Lift
Big Applesauce
Anguished Declaration of Love
FaceHeel Turn
Big "NO!"
Corrupt Corporate Executive
Hell Is That Noise
Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Chewing the Scenery
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Naïve Newcomer
Foregone Conclusion
Advertised Extra
Animated Credits Opening
Romantic Comedy
She's Got Legs
One Steve Limit
Hypocritical Humor
Our Vampires Are Different
Driven to Suicide
Evil Is Petty
Improbable Aiming Skills
Soft Glass
Took a Level in Badass
Death Seeker
Oh, Crap!
The Cameo
The Stoic
Aside Glance
Superhero
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
Not So Stoic
Corpsing
Blatant Lies
Deus ex Machina
Twist Ending
Epic Fail
Sanity Slippage
Sacrificial Lion
Alliterative Name
Mr. Exposition
Tranquil Fury
Fainting
Biopic
The Reveal
Action Genre
Those Two Bad Guys
Mistaken for Gay
Mystery and Detective Films
Stuff Blowing Up
Award-Bait Song
Up to Eleven
Rule of Funny
This Is Gonna Suck
Match Cut
Take a Third Option
Big Brother Instinct
Friend to All Children
Show Within a Show
Peek-a-Boo Corpse
The Place
Crucified Hero Shot
Cruel and Unusual Death
Stock Footage
The Musical
Man on Fire
Black Best Friend
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Dropped a Bridge on Him
Establishing Character Moment
Four-Temperament Ensemble
Insistent Terminology
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Eldritch Abomination
Camp Gay
Bowdlerise
Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Exact Words
Shown Their Work
He Who Fights Monsters
Danny Peary Cult Movies List
War Is Hell
All There in the Script
Not So Different
Monumental Damage
"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Composite Character
Gold Digger
Parental Abandonment
Authority Equals Asskicking
Annoying Younger Sibling
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Dissonant Serenity
Re-Cut
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Self-Deprecation
Fourth Date Marriage
Dying Moment of Awesome
Reckless Gun Usage
Smug Snake
Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
The Smurfette Principle
Death by Adaptation
Genre Throwback
Villain Song
Karma Houdini
Downer Ending
Heroes Want Redheads
Catapult Nightmare
BFG
Training Montage
Death by Irony
Gorn
Deliberate Values Dissonance
Storming the Castle
Happily Married
The '90s
Obstructive Bureaucrat
Plot Hole
Daylight Horror
Adults Are Useless
Ghost Fiction
Bar Brawl
Reality Has No Subtitles
Curb-Stomp Battle
Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Star-Crossed Lovers
The Stoner
Bad Boss
Creepy Child
He Knows Too Much
Big-Bad Ensemble
Alpha Bitch
Due to the Dead
Title Drop
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Good Is Not Nice
Broken Pedestal
Sinister Minister
A Father to His Men
Babies Ever After
Deconstruction
Sports Stories
I Need a Freaking Drink
Taking the Bullet
Faux Affably Evil
For the Evulz
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
The Ghost
Fan Disservice
Bottomless Magazines
Male Frontal Nudity
Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Irony
Depraved Bisexual
Gainax Ending
Needs Wiki Magic Love
Smoking Is Cool
Missing Mom
Kick the Son of a Bitch
Badass Bookworm
Punny Name
Deal with the Devil
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Actor Allusion
Ascended Extra
Dirty Coward
Anyone Can Die
Bolivian Army Ending
Russian Films
Calling the Old Man Out
Imagine Spot
Hero Antagonist
Not Using the "Z" Word
Chekhov's Gun
Throwing Your Sword Always Works
Alas, Poor Villain
Manipulative Bastard
Animal Title Index
Villainous Breakdown
Badass Longcoat
Does Not Like Shoes
Translation Convention
Sequel Hook
Book-Ends
Kubrick Stare
Closed Circle
The Cavalry
Bland-Name Product
Hong Kong Films
French Films
The Hero
Expository Hairstyle Change
Recycled IN SPACE!
The Smart Guy
Department of Redundancy Department
The Alleged Car
Revenge
From Nobody to Nightmare
Insult Backfire
Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Ominous Latin Chanting
I Did What I Had to Do
Yandere
I Have Your Wife
Cassandra Truth
No Name Given
It Can Think
Real Life Writes the Plot
Extreme Doormat
Wham Shot
Silence Is Golden
Obfuscating Stupidity
Stealth Pun
Science Fiction Films
Ambiguously Gay
From Bad to Worse
Kill 'em All
Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Shirtless Scene
An Aesop
Ripped from the Headlines
Final Girl
Bury Your Gays
Artistic License Physics
Laser-Guided Karma
Rousing Speech
Artistic License Biology
Contrived Coincidence
Adaptational Villainy
And Starring
Riddle for the Ages
Laughing Mad
Armor-Piercing Question
Mundane Made Awesome
Badass Normal
Works Set in World War II
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Australian Movies
Darkest Hour
Disappeared Dad
Random Events Plot
Roger Ebert: Great Movies List
Henpecked Husband
An Arm and a Leg
Only Known by Their Nickname
The Dragon
Dark Reprise
Skewed Priorities
Heroic Sacrifice
Meaningful Echo
Gratuitous English
Poor Communication Kills
Film Noir
My Greatest Failure
Beware the Nice Ones
Our Zombies Are Different
My Beloved Smother
Based on a True Story
Famous Last Words
Setting Update
Femme Fatale
Too Dumb to Live
Evil-Detecting Dog
Morality Pet
Flashback
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!
Big Eater
Dramatic Gun Cock
The Oner
Cool Car
Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism
The Load
N-Word Privileges
Mighty Whitey
Cat Fight
Race Lift
Adaptation Name Change
Evil Laugh
Red Right Hand
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Adaptational Attractiveness
Adaptation Distillation
Jump Scare
Undying Loyalty
Scenery Porn
Destination Defenestration
Freeze-Frame Bonus
HeelFace Turn
Madness Mantra
Leave the Camera Running
Thriller
Big Bad Duumvirate
Spiritual Successor
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Extremely Short Timespan
Gilligan Cut
Actually Pretty Funny
Important Haircut
Pyrrhic Victory
Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Expy
Didn't Think This Through
Rated M for Manly
Italian Films
Hollywood Law
Stalker with a Crush
Playing Gertrude
Tagline
Jerkass
Non-Indicative Name
Demoted to Extra
Narrator
Properly Paranoid
Evil Counterpart
Police are Useless
Red Herring
MacGuffin
Foreshadowing
Historical Villain Upgrade
Flipping the Bird
Bullying a Dragon
Meet Cute
Dramedy
Batman Gambit
Worthy Opponent
Despair Event Horizon
Grey and Gray Morality
Christmas Movies Index
Kill It with Fire
Defiant to the End
The Remake
Pet the Dog
Beard of Evil
Let's Get Dangerous!
Ambiguous Ending
Empathic Environment
No OSHA Compliance
Arch-Enemy
As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Married to the Job
Mind Screw
True Companions
Attempted Rape
Drill Sergeant Nasty
Token Minority
Sole Survivor
Noodle Incident
Well-Intentioned Extremist
The X of Y
Hope Spot
The Brute
Crapsack World
Credits Gag
British Films
Psychological Thriller
Bad "Bad Acting"
Camera Abuse
Take That!
Easily Forgiven
Ass Shove
Taking You with Me
German Films
Badass in a Nice Suit
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Film of the Book
Blackmail
Rich Bitch
Coming-of-Age Story
Creative Closing Credits
Fat Bastard
No-Sell
Punch-Clock Villain
Gender Flip
Dwindling Party
Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Would Hit a Girl
Pay Evil unto Evil
Small Name, Big Ego
Chekhov's Skill
Obviously Evil
Sassy Black Woman
Meaningful Name
Death by Sex
Humiliation Conga
Amoral Attorney
The Power of Love
Refuge in Audacity
Paper-Thin Disguise
As Himself
Every Car Is a Pinto
Pun
aka: Incredibly Lame Pun
Large Ham
Ambiguous Disorder
Outrun the Fireball
And the Adventure Continues
Novelization
Room Full of Crazy
Does This Remind You of Anything?
No Celebrities Were Harmed
Distracted by the Sexy
Sci-Fi Horror
Unusual Euphemism
"Awesome McCool" Name
Eye Scream
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
The Starscream
Dull Surprise
Informed Ability
Slasher Movie
Freudian Excuse
Dual Wielding
The '80s
It Will Never Catch On
Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Big Bad
Nothing Is Scarier
Determinator
Affectionate Parody