Tropescilloscope: She Cleans Up Nicely

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Film Series Rule of Symbolism Adaptational Heroism NO INDOOR VOICE Antagonist Title Large Ham Break the Haughty Vomit Discretion Shot Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Trailers Always Spoil Pimped-Out Dress You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Bullying a Dragon No Name Given Call-Forward Paper-Thin Disguise Camera Abuse In the Back Tagline Cruel and Unusual Death Retcon "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Laughing Mad Asshole Victim Arranged Marriage Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Everyone Has Standards Line-of-Sight Name Be Careful What You Wish For I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Translation Convention Once More, with Clarity! 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Action Prologue Disguised in Drag Historical Villain Upgrade Man on Fire Didn't Think This Through Truth in Television Horror Films One Steve Limit Accidental Murder Retirony Early Installment Weirdness Disney Villain Death Fan Disservice Sinister Minister Dirty Coward Despair Event Horizon Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Better to Die than Be Killed Composite Character Cool Shades Pretty in Mink Black and Gray Morality All Men Are Perverts Woman in White Genre Savvy Foregone Conclusion I Did What I Had to Do Big Brother Instinct MacGuffin Artistic License – Biology Dull Surprise Bilingual Bonus Wham Line Meaningful Echo You Have Failed Me Extremely Short Timespan Unusually Uninteresting Sight Manly Tears German Films Break the Cutie Historical-Domain Character Took a Level in Badass Plucky Comic Relief Straight Gay Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Have a Gay Old Time Disney Death Scary Black Man Heroes Want Redheads Daddy's Girl Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Broken Pedestal Token Minority Off with His Head! Adaptational Attractiveness The Lost Lenore Improbable Weapon User Betty and Veronica Deliberate Values Dissonance Hero of Another Story Decoy Protagonist In Medias Res All There in the Script Video Credits Peek-a-Boo Corpse Drives Like Crazy Bloodier and Gorier Drugs Are Bad The Great Depression Zombie Stories Black Comedy Rape Fantasy Films Insistent Terminology Only Sane Man Visual Pun Suspiciously Specific Denial Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Dramatic Irony Guile Hero Hollywood Law Fatal Flaw Take That! Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Smoking Is Cool Camp Gay Neck Lift Due to the Dead Parental Substitute Evil Sounds Deep Shoot the Shaggy Dog Big Eater Ghost Fiction Eye Scream Alliterative Name Put on a Bus Card-Carrying Villain Good Is Not Nice Bottomless Magazines Humans Are Bastards Intrepid Reporter Author Appeal Did Not Get the Girl The Alcoholic Costume Porn Psychological Thriller No Antagonist Punny Name More Dakka Title Drop O.O.C. Is Serious Business Lock and Load Montage Amoral Attorney Lighter and Softer Evil Counterpart Butt-Monkey Music Stories Action Survivor Redshirt Army Adaptation Name Change Karmic Death Cool Car Riddle for the Ages Suspiciously Similar Substitute Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Faking the Dead May–December Romance The Quiet One Market-Based Title Big Bad Duumvirate The Reveal Slashed Throat Missing Mom Names to Run Away from Really Fast Cluster F-Bomb Woman Scorned Defrosting Ice Queen Accidental Misnaming The Casanova The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Pre-Mortem One-Liner Call-Back Serial Killer Crucified Hero Shot Body Horror Re-Cut Roaring Rampage of Revenge Pretty Little Headshots Adaptation Distillation 20 Minutes into the Future Meaningful Name Manipulative Bastard The Atoner Tempting Fate He Who Fights Monsters The Starscream And I Must Scream Nice Hat Comically Missing the Point Race Lift Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Interrupted Suicide Greater-Scope Villain Lampshade Hanging Chase Scene My Greatest Failure Eldritch Abomination Bland-Name Product Plot Hole Corpsing Product Placement Deconstruction Kick the Son of a Bitch The Big Guy Bolivian Army Ending Dying Moment of Awesome The End... 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The Cavalry Naked People Are Funny Not So Stoic Crazy-Prepared Fanservice Extra Slap-Slap-Kiss Black Best Friend Cold-Blooded Torture Gold Digger Fanservice Dumb Blonde Ship Tease "The Reason You Suck" Speech An Aesop Hate Sink Canadian Movies Ragtag Bunch of Misfits No Celebrities Were Harmed Dual Wielding Ironic Echo Immune to Bullets Spared by the Adaptation Conspicuous CG Sadistic Choice After the End Wrong Genre Savvy Chiaroscuro Cool Old Guy Anyone Can Die Fat Bastard Red Oni, Blue Oni Hoist by His Own Petard Fate Worse than Death Unusual Euphemism Obviously Evil As Long as It Sounds Foreign Politically Incorrect Villain Cowboy Cop Dissonant Serenity Big "NO!" Kids Are Cruel Madness Mantra Russian Films Reality Is Unrealistic Your Head A-Splode Mr. Exposition Dark Reprise Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Sealed Evil in a Can Your Cheating Heart Get Out! Hell Is That Noise Gorn Christmas Movies Index As the Good Book Says... 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Tap on the Head Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Evil Laugh Super Strength No Ending Grey and Gray Morality Action Genre Beauty Is Never Tarnished Advertised Extra The Remake The Hero Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Instant Death Bullet Throwing Your Sword Always Works Improvised Weapon Genre Shift Epic Fail Animal Title Index Air-Vent Passageway Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Double Entendre Stepford Smiler Make It Look Like an Accident Those Two Bad Guys Show Within a Show Stuff Blowing Up Not What It Looks Like Mistaken for Gay The X of Y Authority Equals Asskicking Bad "Bad Acting" As Himself Take a Third Option Broken Bird Red Eyes, Take Warning Kill 'em All Off-into-the-Distance Ending Science Fiction Films Driven to Suicide Heel–Face Turn Jerk with a Heart of Gold Genre Throwback Sports Stories Eureka Moment Never Found the Body Hero Antagonist Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Coming-of-Age Story Obstructive Bureaucrat Those Two Guys Together in Death Cain and Abel Homage Combat Pragmatist Amusing Injuries Funny Background Event Easily Forgiven Loophole Abuse The Ghost Mama Bear Maybe Ever After Continuity Nod Obfuscating Stupidity Smug Snake Age Lift Made of Iron Badass Bookworm Animal Motifs Henpecked Husband Not Quite Dead Big Applesauce Red Herring Nice Guy Overly Long Gag Affably Evil "Well Done, Son!" Guy Public Domain Feature Films Rich Bitch Last-Name Basis Leaning on the Fourth Wall Early-Bird Cameo Ax-Crazy Sequel Hook Adaptational Badass Refuge in Audacity Double-Meaning Title Department of Redundancy Department Villain Song The Smart Guy Biopic All Just a Dream Really Gets Around Car Fu Dramatic Gun Cock Superhero The Cameo Darkest Hour Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas N-Word Privileges Epic Movie Same Language Dub Bare Your Midriff Catapult Nightmare Kill It with Fire Adaptational Villainy Older Than They Look Bunny-Ears Lawyer Leitmotif Rousing Speech You Killed My Father Broken Aesop Meaningful Background Event Big-Bad Ensemble Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The '50s Irony Failed a Spot Check Freeze-Frame Bonus Closed Circle Rewatch Bonus Spell My Name with an "S" Nothing Is Scarier Pragmatic Villainy Action Girl Adult Fear Monumental Damage The Voiceless Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Never Trust a Trailer Defiant to the End Not So Different Villainous Breakdown Character Development Revenge Badass Normal Mad Scientist Sci-Fi Horror Captain Obvious Spanner in the Works Fun with Acronyms British Films Sanity Slippage Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! A Minor Kidroduction Death by Sex Well-Intentioned Extremist Credits Gag Artistic License – Gun Safety Agony of the Feet The Chick Twist Ending Apocalypse How Dark Is Not Evil Match Cut Green-Eyed Monster Disappeared Dad The Chessmaster Rated M for Manly Arc Words Covers Always Lie Novelization Properly Paranoid You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Imagine Spot No Good Deed Goes Unpunished One-Man Army An Arm and a Leg Hidden Depths Here We Go Again! Alas, Poor Villain Black Comedy Gainax Ending Badass Boast Slasher Movie The Film of the Book Unresolved Sexual Tension Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Mighty Whitey The Mole Bavarian Fire Drill Award-Bait Song Curb-Stomp Battle Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Bond One-Liner Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? There Is No Kill Like Overkill Faux Affably Evil Punch-Clock Villain Face Death with Dignity Would Hit a Girl Unspoken Plan Guarantee Meet Cute Stealth Hi/Bye What You Are in the Dark Hollywood Darkness Heroic Sacrifice Serious Business Only Known by Their Nickname As You Know Ascended Extra Villain with Good Publicity Cat Fight A Date with Rosie Palms Catch-Phrase Mercy Kill Jerkass Has a Point Film Noir Fire-Forged Friends Final Girl Depraved Bisexual Drowning My Sorrows The Alleged Car Spiteful Spit Determinator Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Gratuitous English Hooker with a Heart of Gold The '60s I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Chewing the Scenery Taking the Bullet Random Events Plot The Faceless Shirtless Scene Adapted Out Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience For Want of a Nail Hair-Trigger Temper Dies Wide Open Naïve Newcomer Taking You with Me Poor Communication Kills Death Glare One-Word Title Destination Defenestration Adaptation Dye-Job Insult Backfire Mugging the Monster Becoming the Mask Death by Irony Humiliation Conga Gilligan Cut Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Death Seeker Romantic False Lead Rule of Funny Running Gag The Brute True Companions Bar Brawl Dogged Nice Guy Children Are Innocent Training Montage Index of Film Westerns Overprotective Dad Martial Arts Movie Exactly What It Says on the Tin Shipper on Deck Wicked Cultured Say My Name Too Dumb to Live Bring My Brown Pants Handicapped Badass Room Full of Crazy Time Skip Worthy Opponent Jerk Jock Gory Discretion Shot Funny Foreigner Heel Realization Country Matters Ambiguous Disorder Shower Scene Real Life Writes the Plot Yandere The '90s Anti-Hero Film Noir Index Drill Sergeant Nasty Earn Your Happy Ending Major Injury Underreaction Back from the Dead Does This Remind You of Anything? Establishing Character Moment The Sociopath Bad Boss Flashback My Beloved Smother Attempted Rape The Oner Ambiguous Ending Police are Useless Bound and Gagged Fatal Family Photo Knife Nut Expository Hairstyle Change Men Are the Expendable Gender It Can Think Stealth Pun Slasher Smile The Ace Evil Is Petty Happily Married Leave the Camera Running Wretched Hive It Will Never Catch On Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies