Tropescilloscope: Shown Their Work

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Demonic Possession Big Applesauce Rape as Drama Kick the Dog Manipulative Bastard Dogged Nice Guy Hong Kong Films Action Genre Bound and Gagged Not So Above It All Apocalypse How Heterosexual Life-Partners Gone Horribly Right Mystery and Detective Films Ship Tease Hooker with a Heart of Gold The '70s Man on Fire Black Comedy Rape Honor Before Reason Accidental Misnaming Slasher Movie Eye Scream Shoot the Shaggy Dog Greater-Scope Villain Meaningful Name Card-Carrying Villain Humans Are Bastards NO INDOOR VOICE Bloody Hilarious Once More, with Clarity! Be Careful What You Wish For Trailers Always Spoil Line-of-Sight Name Badass Normal Exactly What It Says on the Tin You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Credits Gag Big "NO!" Mexican Standoff Shout-Out Motor Mouth Bottomless Magazines Heel Realization Stepford Smiler The Cavalry She's Got Legs Last-Name Basis Dirty Cop Slap-Slap-Kiss Chekhov's Gunman The Stinger Red Herring Nice Hat Punny Name Noodle Incident Room Full of Crazy Madness Mantra Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Hypocrite Mistaken for Gay Television Movie Index Humiliation Conga Hollywood Law Faux Affably Evil Irony Badass in a Nice Suit Action Survivor Papa Wolf Fan Disservice Meaningful Background Event Affably Evil Fanservice Extra Not Quite Dead Death Glare Red Right Hand Flipping the Bird Big Bad The Chick MacGuffin Shirtless Scene Eldritch Abomination Training Montage Cassandra Truth Video Credits Bavarian Fire Drill Pragmatic Villainy Advertised Extra Politically Incorrect Villain Annoying Younger Sibling Unwitting Instigator of Doom Thriller Black and Gray Morality Loads and Loads of Characters Chase Scene It Will Never Catch On Artistic License – Physics Naïve Newcomer Alpha Bitch Captain Ersatz Stealth Hi/Bye Shower Scene Guile Hero Faking the Dead Non-Indicative Name Ms. Fanservice Moment Killer Mood Whiplash The Place Narrator Decoy Protagonist Storming the Castle Sci-Fi Horror Adaptational Villainy Badass Bookworm Alliterative Name As Himself Loophole Abuse Disney Death Shell-Shocked Veteran Defiant to the End Does Not Like Shoes Didn't Think This Through Black Dude Dies First Christmas Movies Index Your Head A-Splode No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Coming-of-Age Story Cain and Abel The '90s La Résistance Epic Fail Henpecked Husband Documentary timeperiod Action Girl Arc Words Fiery Redhead Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Guns Akimbo Author Appeal Badass Boast Plucky Comic Relief Dwindling Party Race Against the Clock Mythology Gag Stock Footage Adaptational Attractiveness Adaptation Name Change Cluster F-Bomb Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Tap on the Head Parental Incest Broken Aesop The Great Depression Depraved Bisexual Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Abusive Parents Funny Foreigner Unreliable Narrator Evil Counterpart Historical Hero Upgrade Works Set in World War II Off-into-the-Distance Ending The Smurfette Principle Cool Shades Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Bait-and-Switch Dumb Blonde Screw This, I'm Outta Here! The Voiceless "Well Done, Son!" Guy Only a Flesh Wound Daylight Horror Stalker with a Crush Easily Forgiven Soundtrack Dissonance Animated Credits Opening The Cameo Obviously Evil Destination Defenestration Historical In-Joke All for Nothing Ascended Extra Death of a Child He Knows Too Much Freeze-Frame Bonus Big Eater Chekhov's Skill Death Seeker Spared by the Adaptation Fate Worse than Death Those Two Guys Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Anti-Hero Villain Song Film Noir Throwing Your Sword Always Works And I Must Scream Kick the Son of a Bitch Big Fancy House Jump Scare Laughing Mad Bury Your Gays Fish out of Water Unresolved Sexual Tension Dirty Coward Precision F-Strike Silence Is Golden Sealed Evil in a Can Antagonist Title Green-Eyed Monster Famous Last Words Missing Mom Punch-Clock Villain Call-Back As the Good Book Says... 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And the Adventure Continues The '60s Sadistic Choice Authority Equals Asskicking Dissonant Serenity There Is No Kill Like Overkill Drowning My Sorrows Music Stories Ripped from the Headlines Retired Badass Blatant Lies The Film of the Book Ambiguous Ending Kill 'em All Time Skip Woman in White Overprotective Dad Kids Are Cruel N-Word Privileges Creative Closing Credits Abhorrent Admirer Composite Character Kill It with Fire The Casanova Babies Ever After Sir Swears-a-Lot Leitmotif I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Love at First Sight Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Downer Ending Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Based on a True Story The Lancer Self-Deprecation The Stoic Becoming the Mask Cool Old Lady You Killed My Father Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Cool Car Adult Fear Toplessness from the Back How We Got Here Gainax Ending Jerk Jock Enemy Mine Gratuitous English I Need a Freaking Drink Evil Is Petty Mad Scientist Japanese Films All Girls Want Bad Boys A God Am I Ironic Echo The Hero Mooks Casting Gag Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Brainless Beauty Daddy's Girl Small Name, Big Ego O.O.C. Is Serious Business Not So Stoic Animal Motifs Awesome, but Impractical From Bad to Worse Serial Killer Bloodless Carnage Taking You with Me Together in Death Chekhov's Gun Attempted Rape Anti-Villain Fatal Flaw Star-Crossed Lovers Blood Knight Calling the Old Man Out What You Are in the Dark Failed a Spot Check Rule of Cool folderlabel The Bad Guy Wins Brother–Sister Incest Only in It for the Money Cold-Blooded Torture Take That! Foreshadowing Corpsing Hypocritical Humor Improbable Aiming Skills Bare Your Midriff A Minor Kidroduction Car Fu Even Evil Has Loved Ones Amusing Injuries Genre Throwback In the Back Older Than They Look Hidden Depths Leave the Camera Running In Name Only No OSHA Compliance Totally Radical Not What It Looks Like Rated M for Manly Parental Neglect Dark and Troubled Past Men Are the Expendable Gender Face–Heel Turn Idiot Ball Curb-Stomp Battle Outrun the Fireball Scenery Gorn Too Dumb to Live Diabolus ex Machina Love Triangle Biopic Handicapped Badass Camera Abuse Break the Haughty Wrong Genre Savvy Half the Man He Used to Be Empathic Environment Asshole Victim Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Butt-Monkey Protagonist Title Horror Comedy The Dog Bites Back Meet Cute Lampshade Hanging Pretty in Mink One Steve Limit Aluminum Christmas Trees Hell Is That Noise Translation Convention Fainting Auto Erotica The Sociopath Mighty Whitey The Mafia Stylistic Suck Dramedy Armor-Piercing Question Dressing as the Enemy Villain Opening Scene Very Loosely Based on a True Story Imagine Spot Jerkass Has a Point Ass Shove Fatal Family Photo Nothing Is Scarier Reckless Gun Usage Boom, Headshot! Revenge Dual Wielding Our Zombies Are Different Chewing the Scenery Mundane Made Awesome Heroic BSoD Wounded Gazelle Gambit The Atoner Russian Films Insult Backfire Badass Grandpa Paper-Thin Disguise Berserk Button Gory Discretion Shot Match Cut Visual Pun Everyone Has Standards Index of Film Westerns The End... Or Is It? Ominous Latin Chanting Actor Allusion Jerk with a Heart of Gold Disguised in Drag Dark Reprise Major Injury Underreaction This Is Gonna Suck Artistic License – Biology Tempting Fate Cruel and Unusual Death Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The Chessmaster She Cleans Up Nicely Genre Savvy Stealth Pun Creepy Child Age Lift All Men Are Perverts Fingore Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Bond One-Liner Ax-Crazy The Remake Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Public Domain Feature Films Martial Arts Movie Military and Warfare Films Killed Mid-Sentence Made of Iron Random Events Plot Mr. Exposition Exact Words Dies Wide Open Heroes Want Redheads Race Lift Sole Survivor Suspiciously Similar Substitute Big Damn Heroes He Who Fights Monsters Groin Attack Your Cheating Heart My Greatest Failure Crucified Hero Shot Pimped-Out Dress Five-Man Band Batman Gambit Malevolent Masked Men The Brute Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Vitriolic Best Buds Ambiguous Disorder Recycled IN SPACE! 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Novelization The Big Guy Maybe Ever After Italian Films Instant Death Bullet Not Using the "Z" Word Reasonable Authority Figure Heel–Face Turn An Aesop Extreme Doormat As You Know Broken Pedestal Conspicuous CG British Films Spell My Name with an "S" Nice Guy Soft Glass Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Slasher Smile 20 Minutes into the Future Expy Superhero Character Development Country Matters As Long as It Sounds Foreign A Date with Rosie Palms A.I. Is a Crapshoot Red Oni, Blue Oni Offscreen Teleportation Beard of Evil Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Sports Stories Eyepatch of Power Funny Background Event Better to Die than Be Killed Not So Different Scare Chord Put on a Bus Celebrity Paradox Sexy Discretion Shot Wretched Hive Hate Sink Belligerent Sexual Tension No Name Given B-Movie From Nobody to Nightmare Deus ex Machina And Starring Affectionate Parody Immune to Bullets Determinator Dark Is Not Evil My God, What Have I Done? 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