Tropescilloscope: Romantic Comedy

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