Tropescilloscope: Reality Has No Subtitles

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They Really Do Love Each Other Cowboy Cop Downer Ending Cluster F-Bomb Fanservice Intrepid Reporter Blood Knight Ominous Latin Chanting Overprotective Dad Kill It with Fire He Knows Too Much Improbable Weapon User Ascended Extra Creepy Child Historical In-Joke Bunny-Ears Lawyer Mercy Kill As the Good Book Says... Catch-Phrase Breaking the Fourth Wall No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Random Events Plot Broken Pedestal The Big Guy Catapult Nightmare Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Five-Man Band Boom, Headshot! Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Stylistic Suck Title Drop Villain Ball Actually Pretty Funny Batman Gambit Sassy Black Woman Took a Level in Jerkass Peek-a-Boo Corpse The Great Depression Bitch in Sheep's Clothing You Killed My Father NO INDOOR VOICE Papa Wolf Ambiguous Disorder Affectionate Parody I Did What I Had to Do Twist Ending Freeze-Frame Bonus Wrong Genre Savvy Kick the Dog Death Glare For the Evulz It's All About Me All for Nothing Due to the Dead Black Comedy Truth in Television Thriller Body Horror Toplessness from the Back Shout-Out Same Language Dub All Girls Want Bad Boys Red Oni, Blue Oni Noodle Incident Too Dumb to Live N-Word Privileges It's Personal Wicked Cultured Grey and Gray Morality Drill Sergeant Nasty Only Sane Man Adaptational Badass Wretched Hive For Want of a Nail A Date with Rosie Palms The Alcoholic Throwing Your Sword Always Works Hell Is That Noise Slasher Movie No-Sell Smoking Is Cool Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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