Tropescilloscope: Sealed Evil in a Can

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

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