Tropescilloscope: Reality Has No Subtitles

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