Tropescilloscope: Put on a Bus

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Bloodier and Gorier What You Are in the Dark The Hero This Is Gonna Suck Break the Cutie Ripped from the Headlines Killed Mid-Sentence Mood Whiplash Tap on the Head Gilligan Cut Spanner in the Works Honor Before Reason Film Series Epic Movie Red Herring The '60s Jerk with a Heart of Gold Corrupt Corporate Executive Hidden Depths Bavarian Fire Drill Meaningful Name Dropped a Bridge on Him You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Darkest Hour Silence Is Golden Punch-Clock Villain Early-Bird Cameo Unreliable Narrator I Need a Freaking Drink The Casanova Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Chase Scene Dirty Old Man Dying Moment of Awesome Hero Antagonist "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue The Load Exactly What It Says on the Tin Gorn Costume Porn Victoria's Secret Compartment Manly Tears Greater-Scope Villain Pre-Mortem One-Liner Bolivian Army Ending Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Unspoken Plan Guarantee Gold Digger Man on Fire Suspiciously Specific Denial Villain Ball Trailers Always Spoil Evil Plan Tranquil Fury Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Earn Your Happy Ending Ironic Echo Sci-Fi Horror It Can Think My God, What Have I Done? Kick the Son of a Bitch B-Movie Danny Peary Cult Movies List Hair-Trigger Temper Mundane Made Awesome Real Life Writes the Plot Dual Wielding Shell-Shocked Veteran Fanservice Extra As the Good Book Says... Fourth Date Marriage Adaptational Badass Eye Scream Older Than They Look Final Girl Match Cut War Is Hell Aluminum Christmas Trees Heroes Want Redheads Canon Foreigner Bury Your Gays Cat Scare Corpsing Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Power of Love Red Shirt Creepy Child Butt-Monkey Morality Pet Batman Gambit Overly Long Gag Wrong Genre Savvy Crapsack World Diabolus ex Machina No OSHA Compliance Your Cheating Heart Sacrificial Lion Meet Cute Frame-Up Authority Equals Asskicking Big Fancy House Fish out of Water He Knows Too Much Better to Die than Be Killed timeperiod Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Evil Laugh Slasher Movie Brainless Beauty Loads and Loads of Characters Russian Films Anyone Can Die Not So Different Pragmatic Adaptation Historical-Domain Character Those Wacky Nazis Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Drugs Are Bad Word of God Slasher Smile Protagonist Title Karma Houdini Logo Joke Light Is Not Good Film Noir Friend to All Children Those Two Guys Half the Man He Used to Be Exact Words Romantic Comedy Gory Discretion Shot Revenge Only a Flesh Wound German Films Television Movie Index Enemy Mine Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Disney Death Dressing as the Enemy Children Are Innocent Eagleland Action Prologue Getting Crap Past the Radar Affably Evil The Brute Irony Arc Words Drowning My Sorrows Dark Action Girl Visual Pun He Who Fights Monsters Handicapped Badass The Reveal Large Ham No Name Given Your Head A-Splode Only Sane Man Missing Mom Creative Closing Credits Kill 'em All In the Back Take That! Evil Sounds Deep Knight Templar Neck Snap The Alcoholic The Cameo Smug Snake Kubrick Stare Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Storming the Castle Flipping the Bird Death Glare Brutal Honesty Advertised Extra Dumb Blonde The Lancer Foregone Conclusion Noodle Incident Bond One-Liner Silent Movie Extremely Short Timespan Girl-on-Girl Is Hot '80s Hair Totally Radical The Remake Fatal Flaw Famous Last Words Woman in White Recycled IN SPACE! Laughing Mad Death by Sex Body Horror Defrosting Ice Queen Didn't Think This Through Even Evil Has Standards Idiot Ball Faux Affably Evil Anachronic Order Villain with Good Publicity All Men Are Perverts As Long as It Sounds Foreign Bad Boss All Girls Want Bad Boys Cold-Blooded Torture Bland-Name Product You Have Failed Me Boom, Headshot! Author Appeal Badass Longcoat Drill Sergeant Nasty Lighter and Softer Psycho for Hire Made of Explodium Dirty Cop Ambiguous Disorder NO INDOOR VOICE Get Out! A.I. Is a Crapshoot Destination Defenestration Rasputinian Death Eyepatch of Power Imagine Spot Facial Horror As Himself Break the Haughty Insistent Terminology Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? A Father to His Men Berserk Button Drives Like Crazy Vitriolic Best Buds Outrun the Fireball Black and Gray Morality Artistic License – Biology Heroic BSoD Made of Iron Not Using the "Z" Word Historical Hero Upgrade Hollywood Law Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Malevolent Masked Men Manipulative Bastard Determinator Sequel Hook Cain and Abel Never My Fault Air-Vent Passageway Never Trust a Trailer Running Gag The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite "Well Done, Son!" 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Broken Pedestal Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Bowdlerise Bloodless Carnage How We Got Here Here We Go Again! Double-Meaning Title Plucky Comic Relief Hypocritical Humor Bring My Brown Pants Laser-Guided Karma Artistic License – Physics Animal Title Index Small Name, Big Ego Wounded Gazelle Gambit Japanese Films Author Avatar Becoming the Mask Vampire Fiction Nice Hat Fingore Dissonant Serenity Actually Pretty Funny Important Haircut Actor Allusion Let's Get Dangerous! Adaptation Name Change Every Car Is a Pinto Combat Pragmatist Loophole Abuse Those Two Bad Guys One-Word Title Not So Stoic And the Adventure Continues Reality Is Unrealistic Fainting Faking the Dead Epic Fail Show Within a Show Award-Bait Song Foreshadowing The Voiceless Off with His Head! Anachronism Stew Smoking Is Cool Unusual Euphemism Mexican Standoff Parental Neglect Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The Atoner Ghost Fiction Stepford Smiler Arch-Enemy Kick the Dog Police are Useless Sadistic Choice Mooks I'm a Humanitarian Male Gaze Funny Background Event Motor Mouth Shipper on Deck Fun with Acronyms Psychological Thriller Red Eyes, Take Warning Domestic Abuse Did Not Get the Girl Villain Song Karmic Death Expy Determinator aka: The Determinator Military and Warfare Films Romantic False Lead Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Character Development Grey and Gray Morality Science Fiction Films All for Nothing The Big Guy Tempting Fate Extreme Doormat Spiteful Spit Dull Surprise Artistic License – History Self-Deprecation She's Got Legs What Happened to the Mouse? Even Evil Has Loved Ones Depraved Bisexual The Bully No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Sociopath Well-Intentioned Extremist Expository Hairstyle Change Damsel in Distress Insult Backfire Refuge in Audacity Non-Indicative Name Dramedy Face–Heel Turn The End... Or Is It? Retirony Action Genre Ax-Crazy The Lost Lenore Improvised Weapon Homage Big Damn Heroes Take a Third Option Evil-Detecting Dog From Bad to Worse Spell My Name with an "S" Big Brother Instinct Rich Bitch Mythology Gag Unwitting Instigator of Doom Easily Forgiven Daddy's Girl Rule of Cool Reasonable Authority Figure Random Events Plot Index of Film Westerns Fantasy Films Kill It with Fire Love at First Sight Off-into-the-Distance Ending Hate Sink Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Big Applesauce Beta Couple Antagonist Title Sequel Escalation Early Installment Weirdness Intergenerational Friendship Anti-Villain Reality Ensues Names to Run Away from Really Fast Comically Missing the Point Up to Eleven Age Lift Broken Bird Annoying Younger Sibling Blackmail In Medias Res Gratuitous English I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Cool Old Guy Race Against the Clock Mistaken for Gay Wretched Hive Make It Look Like an Accident Monumental Damage Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Death of a Child The Chessmaster Horror Comedy N-Word Privileges Due to the Dead Abusive Parents Mind Screw Villainous Breakdown Bi the Way Unusually Uninteresting Sight Adaptational Villainy Dutch Angle Ambiguously Gay Knife Nut The X of Y Married to the Job One-Man Army Rule of Symbolism Flashback Title Drop World of Ham Stalker with a Crush Ms. Fanservice Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Pretty Little Headshots Naked People Are Funny Film Noir Index Framing Device Agony of the Feet Fat Bastard Alliterative Name Re-Cut Politically Incorrect Villain Video Credits Artistic License – Geography No Antagonist The Chick Only One Name What the Hell, Hero? 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Big Bad Serious Business Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Undying Loyalty Hell Is That Noise Bittersweet Ending Took a Level in Jerkass Almost Kiss Cool Old Lady Translation Convention Have a Gay Old Time Our Vampires Are Different Heterosexual Life-Partners Femme Fatale A God Am I Chekhov's Skill Demonic Possession Shout-Out Shower Scene Not So Above It All Action Survivor Fire-Forged Friends The '80s Italian Films Narrator Beard of Evil Spared by the Adaptation Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Naïve Newcomer Death Seeker Mr. Exposition Evil Is Petty Driven to Suicide Fate Worse than Death One Steve Limit Dirty Coward Chewing the Scenery Documentary Aside Glance Black Comedy Rape Crazy-Prepared Meaningful Background Event Daylight Horror Ambiguous Ending Dark Is Not Evil Fantastic Racism Continuity Nod Hope Spot Contrived Coincidence True Companions No Ending Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Reckless Gun Usage You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Only in It for the Money Rule of Funny Eiffel Tower Effect Bait-and-Switch Pay Evil unto Evil Informed Ability Cool Shades Rape as Drama Scare Chord Dwindling Party Bald of Evil Based on a True Story Genre Throwback Taking You with Me Training Montage Babies Ever After All There in the Script Ship Tease Conspicuous CG Twist Ending Our Zombies Are Different Real Life Adaptation Dye-Job I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Toplessness from the Back Call-Forward Parental Abandonment Disguised in Drag All Just a Dream Artistic License – Law Interrupted Suicide Race Lift Deus ex Machina The '50s Improbable Aiming Skills Does This Remind You of Anything? O.O.C. Is Serious Business Properly Paranoid Product Placement 20 Minutes into the Future Psychopathic Manchild Stealth Hi/Bye Same Language Dub Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Accidental Misnaming Death by Adaptation Amoral Attorney The Cavalry Pet the Dog Badass in a Nice Suit Developing Doomed Characters Bottomless Magazines Amusing Injuries Soundtrack Dissonance Fiery Redhead Jitter Cam Last-Name Basis Would Hurt a Child Poor Communication Kills Adorkable The Dragon Would Hit a Girl A Date with Rosie Palms Black Comedy Humiliation Conga Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Badass Normal Disappeared Dad Four-Temperament Ensemble Moment Killer Setting Update Apocalypse How Beauty Is Never Tarnished Tagline Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Jerk Jock Downer Ending Cool Car Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The Faceless Distracted by the Sexy Horror Films Historical Villain Upgrade Deal with the Devil The Dog Bites Back Oh, Crap! Blatant Lies Cluster F-Bomb Eldritch Abomination Kids Are Cruel Casting Gag Ominous Latin Chanting Credits Gag Line-of-Sight Name Stuff Blowing Up Evil Brit Hoist by His Own Petard Artistic License – Military Adaptational Heroism Covers Always Lie Coming-of-Age Story Guns Akimbo Happily Married She Cleans Up Nicely Implacable Man Redemption Equals Death Freeze-Frame Bonus Central Theme Disproportionate Retribution Together in Death Playing Gertrude Bound and Gagged Only Known by Their Nickname The Oner Obviously Evil Papa Wolf Alpha Bitch Eureka Moment Be Careful What You Wish For Grievous Bottley Harm Soft Glass Henpecked Husband Fake Shemp Jump Scare Worthy Opponent Manchild Affectionate Parody Stealth Pun Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Parental Substitute Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Adaptation Distillation Immune to Bullets Police Brutality Too Dumb to Live Superhero Decoy Protagonist Gender Flip Abhorrent Admirer Leaning on the Fourth Wall Country Matters Skewed Priorities Double Entendre Suspiciously Similar Substitute Five-Man Band Hero of Another Story Demoted to Extra Sealed Evil in a Can Adapted Out The Vamp Breaking the Fourth Wall Green-Eyed Monster Asshole Victim Woman Scorned Red Right Hand The Stoner From Nobody to Nightmare Big Eater The Bad Guy Wins Funny Foreigner Sinister Minister Shoot the Shaggy Dog The Alleged Car Instant Death Bullet Nice Guy Alas, Poor Villain Rule of Three The Mafia Adaptation Expansion Works Set in World War II Bullying a Dragon The Stinger Establishing Character Moment Mercy Kill Neck Lift Paper-Thin Disguise Dogged Nice Guy Rewatch Bonus The Ditz Intrepid Reporter Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Time Skip Major Injury Underreaction