Tropescilloscope: Skewed Priorities

Worrying about something unimportant instead of what's more important. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Bring My Brown Pants Re-Cut The Big Guy Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Calling the Old Man Out Adaptational Attractiveness Cool Shades Evil Is Petty Improbable Aiming Skills Woman in White Parental Abandonment Laser-Guided Karma Lock and Load Montage Smoking Is Cool A Father to His Men Nice Hat Deliberately Monochrome Pretty Little Headshots Adaptation Expansion Nothing Is Scarier Married to the Job Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Apocalypse How Disney Villain Death Tagline Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Framing Device Distracted by the Sexy All Men Are Perverts Bald of Evil Ms. Fanservice Stock Footage Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Spiritual Successor Stylistic Suck Madness Mantra Sports Stories Blackmail Anachronism Stew Children Are Innocent BFG Jitter Cam Historical Hero Upgrade "Where Are They Now?" 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Is a Crapshoot Eagleland Mood Whiplash Ascended Extra The Film of the Book Epic Movie Kubrick Stare Serial Killer Retcon Historical-Domain Character Informed Ability The Smurfette Principle Intrepid Reporter Friend to All Children My God, What Have I Done? Historical In-Joke Parental Neglect Redemption Equals Death Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor In Medias Res Our Zombies Are Different The Dragon Protagonist Title Properly Paranoid Parental Substitute Loads and Loads of Characters Fainting Face–Heel Turn Improvised Weapon Anachronic Order Enemy Mine Cloudcuckoolander Extreme Doormat Deconstruction Stuff Blowing Up Recycled IN SPACE! Ambiguous Disorder Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Wicked Cultured Product Placement Double Entendre One Steve Limit Wham Shot Due to the Dead Evil Plan Fatal Family Photo Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Lighter and Softer What Happened to the Mouse? 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Green-Eyed Monster Those Wacky Nazis Cool Car Sole Survivor Not So Above It All And the Adventure Continues Developing Doomed Characters Fanservice Paper-Thin Disguise Unwitting Instigator of Doom Not Even Bothering with the Accent Woman Scorned Action Genre He Knows Too Much The Stinger Half the Man He Used to Be Interrupted Suicide Ominous Latin Chanting Documentary The Cameo Suddenly SHOUTING! The Smart Guy Central Theme The Dog Bites Back Aside Glance Gainax Ending The Musical Aluminum Christmas Trees Villain Protagonist Plucky Comic Relief Beware the Nice Ones Serious Business Bilingual Bonus Break the Haughty Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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For! Emphasis! Gorn Retired Badass She's Got Legs All There in the Script The '50s Humiliation Conga Adapted Out Stepford Smiler Chiaroscuro Dramedy Red Oni, Blue Oni Dutch Angle Get Out! 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Adaptation Name Change Bloody Hilarious Cain and Abel Manic Pixie Dream Girl Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Casting Gag Line-of-Sight Name Black Dude Dies First Abhorrent Admirer Reckless Gun Usage Gratuitous English Badass Grandpa Say My Name Cruel and Unusual Death Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Brick Joke Real Life Writes the Plot British Films Big Bad Duumvirate Sacrificial Lion Rule of Funny Early Installment Weirdness Bloodless Carnage Berserk Button Worthy Opponent Big Bad World of Ham Plot Hole Beauty Is Never Tarnished Non-Indicative Name Australian Movies Police Brutality Guile Hero Deal with the Devil Never Trust a Trailer Spell My Name with an "S" Undying Loyalty Credits Gag Fantastic Racism Demonic Possession Getting Crap Past the Radar Implacable Man Big Applesauce Auto Erotica Sequel Hook Jerkass Has a Point Adaptational Heroism Ripped from the Headlines Idiot Ball Setting Update Vacation Films Closed Circle Scenery Porn Actor Allusion Captain Ersatz Freeze-Frame Bonus Becoming the Mask Dropped a Bridge on Him Neck Snap B-Movie Super Strength Love at First Sight Gone Horribly Right Superhero Logo Joke Darker and Edgier Tap on the Head Combat Pragmatist Red Right Hand