Tropescilloscope: She Cleans Up Nicely

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They Really Do Love Each Other Jump Scare Deal with the Devil Dramatic Gun Cock Narrator Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Freudian Excuse Rule of Funny Death Glare Face Death with Dignity Ms. Fanservice In Name Only Manipulative Bastard "The Reason You Suck" Speech Fantasy Films She's Got Legs Black Comedy Enemy Mine Not Even Bothering with the Accent Precision F-Strike Slap-Slap-Kiss Corrupt Corporate Executive Adaptational Heroism For the Evulz Film Noir Index The Bully Alpha Bitch No Ending One-Word Title Neck Lift Does This Remind You of Anything? I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Despair Event Horizon Black Best Friend Nice Guy From Bad to Worse Accidental Misnaming Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Superhero The Alleged Car Men Are the Expendable Gender Vacation Films Big Damn Heroes Jerkass Has a Point Shipper on Deck Does Not Like Shoes Badass Normal Danny Peary Cult Movies List Distracted by the Sexy Anti-Hero Christmas Movies Index Woman in White Fat Bastard Car Fu What You Are in the Dark Alliterative Name Sanity Slippage Awesome, but Impractical Arch-Enemy Laser-Guided Karma Fate Worse than Death Major Injury Underreaction Would Hit a Girl Mooks Informed Ability Naked People Are Funny Needs Wiki Magic Love Jerk Jock Foil Bilingual Bonus Annoying Younger Sibling Only One Name Black and Gray Morality Kill It with Fire Intrepid Reporter Heroes Want Redheads Intergenerational Friendship Cold-Blooded Torture Overprotective Dad Redshirt Army Woman Scorned Kick the Son of a Bitch Bland-Name Product "Shaggy Dog" Story I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Ass Shove Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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B-Movie Logo Joke Re-Cut Camp Gay Antagonist Title Artistic License – History Dirty Coward Dying Moment of Awesome Tranquil Fury Epic Fail Handicapped Badass The Stoner Adaptational Villainy Not So Stoic NO INDOOR VOICE Artistic License – Law The Ditz The Un-Reveal German Films Red Eyes, Take Warning As You Know Up to Eleven Cat Fight Cain and Abel Deliberately Monochrome Bad "Bad Acting" All Just a Dream Romantic Comedy Costume Porn Dogged Nice Guy Deadpan Snarker French Films Soft Glass Parental Incest Put on a Bus Curse Cut Short Bait-and-Switch Heel–Face Turn Mighty Whitey Blood Knight Faux Affably Evil A.I. Is a Crapshoot Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Knife Nut Heterosexual Life-Partners Film Noir Military and Warfare Films Rated M for Manly Gone Horribly Right You Killed My Father Evil vs. Evil Auto Erotica As the Good Book Says... 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Double-Meaning Title Not So Different Eiffel Tower Effect Drowning My Sorrows Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Improvised Weapon Adorkable Black Comedy Rape timeperiod Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Betty and Veronica Male Gaze 20 Minutes into the Future Would Hurt a Child He Who Fights Monsters Almost Kiss Hoist by His Own Petard Tap on the Head Advertised Extra I Did What I Had to Do Action Survivor Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Kick the Dog Not Quite Dead No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Babies Ever After The Atoner Villain Opening Scene Hollywood Law The Oner Biopic Good Is Not Nice Suddenly SHOUTING! Creative Closing Credits Loophole Abuse Canadian Movies Retirony Nothing Is Scarier Man on Fire Leave the Camera Running Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Daddy's Girl What the Hell, Hero? 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Brother–Sister Incest Reasonable Authority Figure Getting Crap Past the Radar Evil Sounds Deep Gory Discretion Shot '80s Hair Let's Get Dangerous! Big Eater Running Gag Framing Device Freeze-Frame Bonus Bavarian Fire Drill Works Set in World War II Disney Death Toplessness from the Back Asshole Victim Breaking the Fourth Wall Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Anachronic Order Dramedy The Stoic Dressing as the Enemy Blatant Lies Berserk Button Facial Horror Foregone Conclusion Instant Death Bullet Expy Butt-Monkey Never My Fault Police Brutality Unusually Uninteresting Sight Anachronism Stew Rule of Three Token Minority Bring My Brown Pants Insistent Terminology Stuff Blowing Up Insult Backfire Determinator aka: The Determinator As Himself Chase Scene Drives Like Crazy Defiant to the End Wretched Hive Diabolus ex Machina No-Sell Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Red Herring Cowboy Cop Pretty Little Headshots World of Ham Jerk with a Heart of Gold Silence Is Golden Black Dude Dies First Demonic Possession Fanservice Extra Large Ham Historical In-Joke Protagonist Title Genre Savvy La Résistance Henpecked Husband The Smart Guy Our Vampires Are Different Outrun the Fireball "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Evil-Detecting Dog Kill 'em All Match Cut Alas, Poor Villain Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Crazy-Prepared Recycled IN SPACE! Face–Heel Turn The Dragon Very Loosely Based on a True Story Fun with Acronyms Sassy Black Woman Dutch Angle Fish out of Water Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Canon Foreigner Drill Sergeant Nasty Slashed Throat Race Lift Pragmatic Adaptation Totally Radical Those Two Bad Guys Malevolent Masked Men A Date with Rosie Palms Abusive Parents Stealth Hi/Bye Fan Disservice Apocalypse How Pimped-Out Dress Poor Communication Kills Adaptation Name Change Ambiguously Gay Stepford Smiler Extreme Doormat Bloodier and Gorier Knight Templar "Well Done, Son!" Guy The Remake Redemption Equals Death The Smurfette Principle The Place Brutal Honesty Beware the Nice Ones Moment Killer Artistic License – Physics Hypocritical Humor Missing Mom Sexy Discretion Shot Historical Villain Upgrade Killed Mid-Sentence Deliberate Values Dissonance Dark and Troubled Past Fake Shemp Camera Abuse Call-Back Artistic License – Geography Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The '50s Villainous Breakdown Eldritch Abomination Guile Hero Faking the Dead Vampire Fiction Sports Stories Creepy Child Novelization Beta Couple Properly Paranoid Decoy Protagonist Vitriolic Best Buds The Chessmaster Batman Gambit Genre Throwback Fainting Deconstruction Adaptation Expansion Dramatic Irony May–December Romance Character Development Adaptation Distillation Body Horror And I Must Scream Early-Bird Cameo Domestic Abuse Scary Black Man Star-Crossed Lovers Armor-Piercing Question Vomit Discretion Shot Mr. Exposition The '80s Plot Hole Ripped from the Headlines Defrosting Ice Queen One Steve Limit Taking the Bullet Your Head A-Splode Small Name, Big Ego Only Sane Man Get Out! Super Strength Flashback Word of God Irony Pragmatic Villainy Dual Wielding Cassandra Truth Hate Sink Fingore Implacable Man Red Oni, Blue Oni Twist Ending Abhorrent Admirer Not So Above It All Immune to Bullets The Reveal Anyone Can Die Reality Has No Subtitles Bottomless Magazines Real Life Writes the Plot Big-Bad Ensemble O.O.C. Is Serious Business Department of Redundancy Department Combat Pragmatist Shout-Out Composite Character Damsel in Distress Action Genre Mistaken for Gay All There in the Script Bond Villain Stupidity Better to Die than Be Killed Bullying a Dragon A God Am I Smug Snake Evil Is Hammy Central Theme Big Fancy House Back from the Dead Rule of Symbolism Married to the Job Broken Bird Jerkass Mundane Made Awesome Adaptation Dye-Job Well-Intentioned Extremist Celebrity Paradox Disney Villain Death Bowdlerise In Medias Res Cat Scare Brainless Beauty Fanservice Award-Bait Song As Long as It Sounds Foreign Off with His Head! Took a Level in Badass Real Life Male Frontal Nudity Truth in Television Gilligan Cut It Can Think Time Skip Italian Films Cluster F-Bomb Say My Name Made of Explodium Dull Surprise Hypocrite Evil Laugh Grey and Gray Morality Hope Spot Downer Ending Room Full of Crazy Bound and Gagged The Quiet One Left the Background Music On Everyone Has Standards Death of a Child Catapult Nightmare Reckless Gun Usage Offscreen Teleportation Papa Wolf Ship Tease Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Curb-Stomp Battle Market-Based Title Gratuitous English Obfuscating Stupidity Lampshade Hanging Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Dark Action Girl Book-Ends Politically Incorrect Villain Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Double Entendre Dirty Old Man Did Not Get the Girl Evil Plan How We Got Here The Hero Storming the Castle Once More, with Clarity! Mythology Gag Sole Survivor Didn't Think This Through Gorn Dies Wide Open Mind Screw Rape as Drama Sadistic Choice Badass Longcoat No Antagonist Make It Look Like an Accident Offscreen Moment of Awesome Coming-of-Age Story Broken Aesop Death by Irony Bi the Way Blood from the Mouth Cool Car Plucky Comic Relief Spell My Name with an "S" "Awesome McCool" Name Country Matters Adapted Out Oh, Crap! I Need a Freaking Drink Hell Is That Noise Chewing the Scenery Easily Forgiven Cool Old Lady For Want of a Nail Big Brother Instinct Honor Before Reason Ambiguous Disorder Demoted to Extra Taking You with Me Psychological Thriller