Tropescilloscope: Race Lift

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Is a Crapshoot Bare Your Midriff The Smart Guy Anguished Declaration of Love Drill Sergeant Nasty Chekhov's Gunman No-Sell Destination Defenestration Implacable Man Affectionate Parody Bunny-Ears Lawyer Only in It for the Money Arch-Enemy Cloudcuckoolander Self-Deprecation Face Death with Dignity Action Survivor She's Got Legs Pragmatic Adaptation Eldritch Abomination The Big Guy Bi the Way Artistic License – Geography Italian Films Psychological Thriller Evil Counterpart Shout-Out Nice Hat Maybe Ever After Superhero The Brute Sequel Hook Eye Scream Almost Kiss Closed Circle Covers Always Lie Face–Heel Turn Psychopathic Manchild Brainless Beauty The '80s Tap on the Head Fourth Date Marriage Anti-Hero Re-Cut Intrepid Reporter Accidental Misnaming Bullying a Dragon Defiant to the End Blatant Lies Film Series Wounded Gazelle Gambit Toplessness from the Back Crazy-Prepared Femme Fatale War Is Hell Obstructive Bureaucrat Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Big-Bad Ensemble My Beloved Smother More Dakka Hong Kong Films Despair Event Horizon Badass Normal Obfuscating Stupidity Jerk with a Heart of Gold The Chick Suddenly SHOUTING! Red Right Hand Fire-Forged Friends Evil Plan Race Lift Bavarian Fire Drill Friend to All Children Dirty Cop Video Credits Damsel in Distress Big Bad Duumvirate Due to the Dead Enemy Mine Expository Hairstyle Change Adaptation Distillation Whole Plot Reference Celebrity Paradox Irony Naked People Are Funny The Hero Dies Ms. Fanservice All Just a Dream Batman Gambit Determinator aka: The Determinator Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds What the Hell, Hero? Translation Convention The Casanova Stylistic Suck The Reveal Historical-Domain Character Canon Foreigner There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Un-Reveal The '60s Bound and Gagged Call-Forward Refuge in Audacity Anyone Can Die Badass in a Nice Suit Bilingual Bonus Funny Foreigner Adapted Out Sadistic Choice Heroic Sacrifice Alpha Bitch Adaptation Expansion Alas, Poor Villain Epic Movie Made of Explodium Determinator Fun with Acronyms Recycled IN SPACE! Anachronism Stew Green-Eyed Monster Horror Films Adaptational Heroism Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Television Movie Index Cowboy Cop Show Within a Show Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Ripped from the Headlines Get Out! Hope Spot Product Placement Spanner in the Works Hypocritical Humor Captain Obvious Off-into-the-Distance Ending The Alleged Car Dropped a Bridge on Him Genre Shift The Chessmaster Reality Is Unrealistic Good Is Not Nice All for Nothing Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Adaptation Name Change The Mole Last-Name Basis Stepford Smiler Death of a Child Only One Name Death Seeker Married to the Job The Vamp The Stoic Unspoken Plan Guarantee Up to Eleven Deliberately Monochrome Hair-Trigger Temper Fatal Family Photo Stuff Blowing Up Our Vampires Are Different An Aesop Morality Pet Taking the Bullet Cruel and Unusual Death Unusually Uninteresting Sight Black Best Friend Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Henpecked Husband Villainous Breakdown Biopic Animal Title Index Japanese Films Intergenerational Friendship Reasonable Authority Figure 20 Minutes into the Future Needs Wiki Magic Love What You Are in the Dark Wrong Genre Savvy Comically Missing the Point Disguised in Drag Kids Are Cruel Parental Abandonment Men Are the Expendable Gender Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Big Bad Country Matters Kill It with Fire Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The Mafia N-Word Privileges Fan Disservice No Celebrities Were Harmed Be Careful What You Wish For Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Pre-Mortem One-Liner Light Is Not Good Knife Nut Dogged Nice Guy Laser-Guided Karma Call-Back Empathic Environment I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Extremely Short Timespan Your Cheating Heart The Alcoholic Flipping the Bird Serial Killer Retirony Mystery and Detective Films "Shaggy Dog" Story The Load Here We Go Again! Documentary Guile Hero Belligerent Sexual Tension Honor Before Reason Fainting Artistic License – Military Black Comedy Cool Old Guy Manipulative Bastard Mugging the Monster Riddle for the Ages Visual Pun Suspiciously Similar Substitute Developing Doomed Characters Wicked Cultured A Minor Kidroduction Fanservice Military and Warfare Films A Father to His Men Car Fu The End... Or Is It? No OSHA Compliance One-Man Army Mercy Kill Spiteful Spit Adaptation Dye-Job The Musical Dwindling Party B-Movie Bring My Brown Pants Blood Knight Offscreen Teleportation No Antagonist All Girls Want Bad Boys Dull Surprise The Sociopath For Want of a Nail Overly Long Gag Epic Fail Kick the Dog Jerkass Smug Snake Decoy Protagonist Love at First Sight Film Noir Index Foreshadowing Spiritual Successor Names to Run Away from Really Fast He Knows Too Much Faux Affably Evil How We Got Here Music Stories Woman Scorned Dual Wielding It Can Think Central Theme Diabolus ex Machina Catapult Nightmare Does This Remind You of Anything? Didn't Think This Through Cool Old Lady I Have Your Wife Extreme Doormat The '50s Throwing Your Sword Always Works Bond One-Liner Mr. Fanservice The Power of Love Artistic License – Physics Properly Paranoid Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Epilogue And the Adventure Continues Villain with Good Publicity Adult Fear Instant Death Bullet Everyone Has Standards Meet Cute An Axe to Grind Straight Gay Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Ascended Extra Curse Cut Short Big Applesauce All There in the Script Sole Survivor Attempted Rape Kill 'em All Becoming the Mask Butt-Monkey One-Word Title Artistic License – History Too Dumb to Live Important Haircut Mythology Gag Fantastic Racism Jitter Cam From Bad to Worse Not What It Looks Like Daddy's Girl Handicapped Badass Beta Couple As Long as It Sounds Foreign Never My Fault Public Domain Feature Films Beware the Nice Ones Downer Ending Retcon Ass Shove Corrupt Corporate Executive "Awesome McCool" Name Defrosting Ice Queen Rasputinian Death Your Head A-Splode Non-Indicative Name Chewing the Scenery Meaningful Name Expy The Ditz Bittersweet Ending Back from the Dead Authority Equals Asskicking Exactly What It Says on the Tin Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Male Frontal Nudity Broken Aesop Only a Flesh Wound Insistent Terminology Off with His Head! "Well Done, Son!" 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