Tropescilloscope: Silence Is Golden
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Your Head A-Splode
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It Can Think
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Redemption Equals Death
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It's All About Me
An Axe to Grind
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She Cleans Up Nicely
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
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Taking You with Me
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Even Evil Has Standards
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A God Am I
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Red Eyes, Take Warning
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Taking the Bullet
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Covers Always Lie
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Becoming the Mask
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Toplessness from the Back
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Easily Forgiven
Evil Is Hammy
Danny Peary Cult Movies List
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Recycled IN SPACE!
Rich Bitch
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All Just a Dream
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My Greatest Failure
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Malevolent Masked Men
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Put on a Bus
No OSHA Compliance
Retired Badass
Refuge in Audacity
Calling the Old Man Out
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Every Car Is a Pinto
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Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
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Leave the Camera Running
The Bad Guy Wins
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I Need a Freaking Drink
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Fat Bastard
Aluminum Christmas Trees
Big "NO!"
Would Hurt a Child
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Large Ham
Names to Run Away from Really Fast
The Sociopath
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones
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Hollywood Darkness
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Needs Wiki Magic Love
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Room Full of Crazy
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All There in the Manual
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Good Is Not Nice
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
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Nothing Is Scarier
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Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Children Are Innocent
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Black Best Friend
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
Intergenerational Friendship
There Is No Kill Like Overkill
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Earn Your Happy Ending
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All There in the Script
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
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Boom, Headshot!
Evil Is Petty
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Our Vampires Are Different
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
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Never My Fault
Dies Wide Open
Never Trust a Trailer
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Older Than They Look
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Only a Flesh Wound
Break the Haughty
Properly Paranoid
Fun with Acronyms
Anti-Hero
Improbable Weapon User
Defrosting Ice Queen
Dark and Troubled Past
Advertised Extra
Real Life Writes the Plot
My God, What Have I Done?
Death by Adaptation
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Reckless Gun Usage
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
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Nice Guy
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Off with His Head!
Bare Your Midriff
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The Great Depression
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aka: The Determinator
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Cat Fight
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Anachronism Stew
Silence Is Golden
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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Coming-of-Age Story
Skewed Priorities
Bloodier and Gorier
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I Have Your Wife
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Hypocrite
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Knife Nut
Soundtrack Dissonance
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Too Dumb to Live
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Babies Ever After
Your Cheating Heart
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Make It Look Like an Accident
Running Gag
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Biopic
Naked People Are Funny
Never Found the Body
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Slap-Slap-Kiss
Gone Horribly Right
All for Nothing
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Guile Hero
Darkest Hour
20 Minutes into the Future
Villain Opening Scene
Ass Shove
Back from the Dead
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Four-Temperament Ensemble
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After the End
Fatal Flaw
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Defiant to the End
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Historical In-Joke
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Stuff Blowing Up
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NO INDOOR VOICE
Manchild
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As the Good Book Says...
Shut Up, Hannibal!
Despair Event Horizon
Jerkass
Meaningful Name
Dark Action Girl
Pyrrhic Victory
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Idiot Ball
Pun
aka: Incredibly Lame Pun
The Hero
Novelization
Cluster F-Bomb
Victoria's Secret Compartment
Whole Plot Reference
Comically Missing the Point
Let's Get Dangerous!
Papa Wolf
The Vamp
Mighty Whitey
Abusive Parents
Bound and Gagged
Have a Gay Old Time
Loophole Abuse
Final Girl
Male Frontal Nudity
Light Is Not Good
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Mind Screw
No Ending
Throwing Your Sword Always Works
No Celebrities Were Harmed
Karmic Death
Rape as Drama
Mythology Gag
The Cavalry
Drowning My Sorrows
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Disney Death
Psychological Thriller
Jitter Cam
Casting Gag
Fantasy Films
Very Loosely Based on a True Story
What the Hell, Hero?
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Made of Iron
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Dying Moment of Awesome
Match Cut
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Not What It Looks Like
The Cameo
Television Movie Index
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As You Know
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Early-Bird Cameo
Betty and Veronica
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Ms. Fanservice
Cool Old Guy
Fan Disservice
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Adults Are Useless
Lock and Load Montage
Beard of Evil
The Un-Reveal
Jerkass Has a Point
Hero of Another Story
Vacation Films
Canon Foreigner
Dissonant Serenity
Distracted by the Sexy
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!
Didn't Think This Through
Dressing as the Enemy
Historical Villain Upgrade
Insult Backfire
The X of Y
Smug Snake
Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Butt-Monkey
Bond One-Liner
Arranged Marriage
Homage
Early Installment Weirdness
Fanservice
Those Wacky Nazis
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Shipper on Deck
Flipping the Bird
Fire-Forged Friends
The Film of the Book
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Police are Useless
The Dragon
Villainous Breakdown
Femme Fatale
Cruel and Unusual Death
Christmas Movies Index
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Obfuscating Stupidity
Smoking Is Cool
Not So Above It All
Reality Is Unrealistic
Punch-Clock Villain
Ax-Crazy
N-Word Privileges
Rewatch Bonus
Irony
Take That!
The Smart Guy
Corrupt Corporate Executive
Grievous Bottley Harm
Based on a True Story
From Bad to Worse
Tranquil Fury
Obviously Evil
Those Two Guys
I Did What I Had to Do
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Bait-and-Switch
Only Known by Their Nickname
Serious Business
Not So Stoic
Driven to Suicide
Would Hit a Girl
Market-Based Title
Evil Counterpart
Air-Vent Passageway
Improbable Aiming Skills
Visual Pun
Pet the Dog
Word of God
Ascended Extra
Blood from the Mouth
Animal Motifs
Animated Credits Opening
Dropped a Bridge on Him
Male Gaze
Determinator
Does Not Like Shoes
Deliberate Values Dissonance
Well-Intentioned Extremist
Hong Kong Films
In the Back
Fingore
Artistic License Law
Random Events Plot
Evil vs. Evil
Wretched Hive
Parental Abandonment
Sci-Fi Horror
Freeze-Frame Bonus
Not Using the "Z" Word
Never Trust a Trailer
aka: Trailers Always Lie
Plucky Comic Relief
Eureka Moment
Broken Pedestal
Adaptation Dye-Job
In Name Only
Blatant Lies
Self-Deprecation
The Dog Bites Back
Trailers Always Spoil
The Quiet One
True Companions
Psychopathic Manchild
The Ditz
Depraved Bisexual
Pragmatic Adaptation
Truth in Television
Bring My Brown Pants
Badass Grandpa
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Tap on the Head
Lighter and Softer
Implacable Man
Took a Level in Badass
Breaking the Fourth Wall
Broken Aesop
Offscreen Teleportation
Riddle for the Ages
Big Damn Heroes
Berserk Button
Suspiciously Specific Denial
As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Hidden Depths
Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Mad Scientist
Henpecked Husband
Gilligan Cut
Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Ironic Echo
Attempted Rape
Cool Guns
Red Oni, Blue Oni
Crazy-Prepared
Parental Incest
A Minor Kidroduction
Evil Laugh
Ambiguous Disorder
The Bully
The Brute
The Big Guy
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
Fiery Redhead
Our Zombies Are Different
Translation Convention
Shown Their Work
Wham Line
Paper-Thin Disguise
Meaningful Echo
Redshirt Army
Pay Evil unto Evil
Eye Scream
Better to Die than Be Killed
Beware the Nice Ones
Brutal Honesty
Man on Fire
Badass Bookworm
Dirty Old Man
Reasonable Authority Figure
Ungrateful Bastard
Love Triangle