Tropescilloscope: Sealed Evil in a Can

Villain is imprisoned somewhere. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Redemption Equals Death Freeze-Frame Bonus Soundtrack Dissonance Belligerent Sexual Tension Deus ex Machina Names to Run Away from Really Fast Video Credits No OSHA Compliance All Men Are Perverts Mood Whiplash La Résistance Evil Plan Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Film Series Red Oni, Blue Oni Funny Background Event Market-Based Title No Antagonist Arranged Marriage Comically Missing the Point Yandere You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Deconstruction The Stinger Daddy's Girl It Can Think Catch-Phrase Shipper on Deck Reality Is Unrealistic The Smart Guy Butt-Monkey Psychopathic Manchild The X of Y The '60s Logo Joke Narrator Does Not Like Shoes Taking You with Me Adaptational Villainy Attempted Rape Captain Ersatz Leaning on the Fourth Wall Throwing Your Sword Always Works Historical Villain Upgrade Casting Gag No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Cloudcuckoolander Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Blood from the Mouth My Greatest Failure Epic Movie Psychological Thriller Didn't Think This Through Crucified Hero Shot Men Are the Expendable Gender Cain and Abel I Have Your Wife Match Cut Irony Noodle Incident Reality Ensues Homage Scary Black Man Lighter and Softer Creator Cameo Black Comedy Deliberate Values Dissonance Early Installment Weirdness Trailers Always Spoil Disguised in Drag Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Motor Mouth Dirty Old Man NO INDOOR VOICE You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Only a Flesh Wound Naïve Newcomer Guile Hero Missing Mom Unusually Uninteresting Sight Toplessness from the Back Black and Gray Morality As Long as It Sounds Foreign Curse Cut Short An Aesop Credits Gag Aside Glance Captain Obvious Revenge Foregone Conclusion Hidden Depths Idiot Ball The Alleged Car Maybe Ever After The Stoic Animal Title Index Those Two Guys Imagine Spot Blonde, Brunette, Redhead 20 Minutes into the Future Action Survivor Not Quite Dead Big Bad Genre Throwback Red Right Hand Fatal Flaw Bound and Gagged Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass I'm a Humanitarian Disney Death Police are Useless Book-Ends Daylight Horror Dark Action Girl Straight Gay Karma Houdini The Ace Mr. Fanservice Punny Name Retcon Really Gets Around Authority Equals Asskicking Dropped a Bridge on Him Hair-Trigger Temper Bury Your Gays Antagonist Title Danny Peary Cult Movies List Pet the Dog Sassy Black Woman Meaningful Echo Groin Attack Paper-Thin Disguise Insistent Terminology Anti-Hero Extreme Doormat True Companions Re-Cut The Quiet One Television Movie Index Morality Pet Instant Death Bullet Sequel Escalation Brother–Sister Incest Hollywood Law Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Biopic Faux Affably Evil Composite Character Christmas Movies Index The Mafia Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Implacable Man No Celebrities Were Harmed Lock and Load Montage Improvised Weapon Martial Arts Movie Mooks Sealed Evil in a Can Pragmatic Adaptation Jitter Cam Word of God Our Zombies Are Different Stuff Blowing Up Title Drop Drugs Are Bad In the Back Those Wacky Nazis Suspiciously Specific Denial Victoria's Secret Compartment Cassandra Truth Humiliation Conga Same Language Dub Hoist by His Own Petard Knight Templar Have a Gay Old Time The Big Guy Award-Bait Song timeperiod Corpsing Gory Discretion Shot Vitriolic Best Buds Those Two Bad Guys Public Domain Feature Films Your Cheating Heart Badass Normal Agony of the Feet Worthy Opponent Drowning My Sorrows Meet Cute "The Reason You Suck" Speech Jerk Jock Fish out of Water "Shaggy Dog" Story The Ghost How We Got Here Demonic Possession Kubrick Stare The Vamp Retirony After the End Abusive Parents Evil Is Hammy Auto Erotica Cool Car Destination Defenestration Reckless Gun Usage Totally Radical Twist Ending Laughing Mad Romantic False Lead Woman in White Real Life Writes the Plot I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Mad Scientist The End... 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Everyone Has Standards Interrupted Suicide Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Conspicuous CG Gratuitous English The Bully Dull Surprise Did Not Get the Girl As Himself Deliberately Monochrome Horror Comedy Bottomless Magazines Exact Words Grievous Bottley Harm Dwindling Party Roaring Rampage of Revenge Star-Crossed Lovers Tranquil Fury Disappeared Dad Evil Brit I Need a Freaking Drink Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Arc Words Line-of-Sight Name The Mole Bunny-Ears Lawyer Driven to Suicide Affectionate Parody Parental Substitute I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Spared by the Adaptation Insult Backfire Once More, with Clarity! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Setting Update Offscreen Moment of Awesome Nice Hat Central Theme Playing Gertrude Male Frontal Nudity Jerk with a Heart of Gold Psycho for Hire Ass Shove Catapult Nightmare There Is No Kill Like Overkill Chiaroscuro Skewed Priorities Slasher Smile Unwitting Instigator of Doom Serious Business Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Rule of Cool It's All About Me Curb-Stomp Battle Broken Aesop Drives Like Crazy Suspiciously Similar Substitute Henpecked Husband Double-Meaning Title Immune to Bullets Accidental Murder Mistaken for Gay Cat Fight Smoking Is Cool Adaptational Heroism Rated M for Manly The Chessmaster Nice Guy Jerkass Real Life Police Brutality Animated Credits Opening Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Evil Laugh This Is Gonna Suck Bavarian Fire Drill Product Placement Precision F-Strike Adult Fear And I Must Scream Non-Indicative Name Dogged Nice Guy Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Friend to All Children Undying Loyalty The Great Depression All There in the Script Domestic Abuse Bring My Brown Pants Handicapped Badass Historical In-Joke An Axe to Grind Double Entendre Big Brother Instinct Becoming the Mask War Is Hell Super Strength Kids Are Cruel Villain Protagonist Fainting Shirtless Scene Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Bi the Way Even Evil Has Standards Dramedy Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Sexy Discretion Shot Peek-a-Boo Corpse Sanity Slippage As You Know Wicked Cultured The Faceless Improbable Weapon User Shout-Out Abhorrent Admirer Heroic Sacrifice A Father to His Men O.O.C. Is Serious Business Evil Is Petty The Alcoholic Extremely Short Timespan B-Movie Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Oh, Crap! 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