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