Tropescilloscope: She Cleans Up Nicely

A shower, some fabulous new clothes, dental work, and makeup, and they're beautiful! (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Animated Credits Opening Catapult Nightmare Hooker with a Heart of Gold Those Two Guys I Need a Freaking Drink Sequel Escalation Naïve Newcomer It Will Never Catch On Maybe Ever After Dying Moment of Awesome Faking the Dead Nice Hat Bar Brawl Jump Scare Pyrrhic Victory Every Car Is a Pinto Beard of Evil Air-Vent Passageway Spared by the Adaptation Truth in Television All Men Are Perverts Woman in White Badass Longcoat Your Head A-Splode Getting Crap Past the Radar Bi the Way Creator Cameo The Alleged Car Chekhov's Gun Posthumous Character Badass Bookworm Only Known by Their Nickname What the Hell, Hero? Hoist by His Own Petard Shipper on Deck Hollywood Law Nice Guy Sanity Slippage Would Hurt a Child The Atoner The Smart Guy Bloodier and Gorier Film Noir timeperiod Amoral Attorney Cold-Blooded Torture Bring My Brown Pants Neck Lift Adaptation Distillation As You Know Ungrateful Bastard Mighty Whitey Cassandra Truth Random Events Plot Taking the Bullet Stealth Pun Japanese Films The Lancer Soft Glass Knife Nut Adults Are Useless Cloudcuckoolander Wounded Gazelle Gambit Mr. Fanservice Revenge Domestic Abuse Camera Abuse Married to the Job Gilligan Cut Worthy Opponent Fiery Redhead Casting Gag Bottomless Magazines Stylistic Suck Kubrick Stare Not What It Looks Like Body Horror Destination Defenestration Dwindling Party Male Frontal Nudity "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Gratuitous English An Axe to Grind Foil Badass Boast All There in the Manual Leitmotif The Hero Dies Eye Scream Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Load Bloody Hilarious Rousing Speech Artistic License – Law Black and Gray Morality Thriller Blatant Lies Gorn Male Gaze Flashback Genre Shift Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Public Domain Feature Films Aside Glance Villainous Breakdown Rated M for Manly La Résistance Beta Couple Cool Old Guy Fate Worse than Death Really Gets Around Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Red Shirt Based on a True Story Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Boom, Headshot! Children Are Innocent Alas, Poor Villain Country Matters Retcon Badass Normal Agony of the Feet Film Noir Index Take That! 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They Really Do Love Each Other In Medias Res Title Drop The Casanova Ripped from the Headlines Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Badass in a Nice Suit Tranquil Fury Alpha Bitch Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" The Musical Rewatch Bonus Slashed Throat The Stinger Shirtless Scene Police Brutality All Girls Want Bad Boys Eldritch Abomination Artistic License – Physics Heroes Want Redheads Cool Car Noodle Incident Throwing Your Sword Always Works Catch-Phrase Wham Line Famous Last Words Determinator The Vamp Did Not Get the Girl Mexican Standoff Dual Wielding Brutal Honesty Took a Level in Badass Broken Pedestal An Aesop Broken Bird Big Eater Outrun the Fireball Amusing Injuries The Place Idiot Ball Fake Shemp Ax-Crazy Grievous Bottley Harm Blood Knight After the End It Can Think Bait-and-Switch Sinister Minister Manly Tears Storming the Castle Auto Erotica Heterosexual Life-Partners Abhorrent Admirer Parental Substitute Eyepatch of Power Mooks Animal Title Index Unusual Euphemism Protagonist Title Extreme Doormat Overprotective Dad Dirty Old Man Be Careful What You Wish For Armor-Piercing Question Taking You with Me Line-of-Sight Name Stock Footage Serious Business 20 Minutes into the Future Car Fu Bad "Bad Acting" Epic Fail Cool Shades Darker and Edgier My Greatest Failure Accidental Misnaming Killed Mid-Sentence Chekhov's Skill Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Crazy Jealous Guy Our Vampires Are Different Light Is Not Good Bald of Evil The '70s I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Police are Useless Disguised in Drag Say My Name Not Quite Dead How We Got Here Cluster F-Bomb Suspiciously Specific Denial Alliterative Name Easily Forgiven Advertised Extra Frame-Up Mistaken for Gay Never Found the Body Brick Joke Author Avatar Shut Up, Hannibal! 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