Tropescilloscope: Take a Third Option

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For! Emphasis! Bowdlerise Older Than They Look Adaptational Attractiveness Asshole Victim Blackmail Wham Shot Alas, Poor Villain The Alcoholic Setting Update Retirony Storming the Castle Star-Crossed Lovers And Starring Continuity Nod Shipper on Deck Important Haircut Taking You with Me Framing Device Advertised Extra Scenery Gorn Broken Aesop The Ditz Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Four-Temperament Ensemble Cat Fight Freudian Excuse Meaningful Background Event No OSHA Compliance Affably Evil Rich Bitch Ms. Fanservice Dumb Blonde Karma Houdini Car Fu Imagine Spot Love Triangle Fainting Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Dutch Angle Shower Scene Ironic Echo Time Skip Chekhov's Gun Shout-Out Fire-Forged Friends Foreshadowing The Stoic Non-Indicative Name Loophole Abuse Only in It for the Money Cool Shades Dark Action Girl You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Drowning My Sorrows Beware the Nice Ones In Medias Res She Cleans Up Nicely Truth in Television Never My Fault Undying Loyalty Have a Gay Old Time Eldritch Abomination Wrong Genre Savvy "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Never Found the Body Take a Third Option Awesome, but Impractical Needs Wiki Magic Love Even Evil Has Loved Ones Stealth Hi/Bye No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Sacrificial Lion Tap on the Head Sassy Black Woman Defrosting Ice Queen N-Word Privileges Dying Moment of Awesome Spanner in the Works A.I. Is a Crapshoot Blood from the Mouth Dramedy Dwindling Party timeperiod Funny Foreigner Dual Wielding Black Dude Dies First Mugging the Monster Adaptational Villainy The '70s Composite Character Abhorrent Admirer Music Stories Red Right Hand Blood Knight Actually Pretty Funny Death Glare Exactly What It Says on the Tin Cat Scare Bar Brawl Reality Ensues It's Personal Our Zombies Are Different Gender Flip Artistic License – Law Death Seeker Brick Joke The Oner Mr. Exposition After the End Big Brother Instinct Twist Ending Psycho for Hire Kill 'em All How We Got Here Victoria's Secret Compartment No-Sell Beauty Is Never Tarnished Jump Scare Manipulative Bastard Fanservice Expository Hairstyle Change MacGuffin A Father to His Men It Can Think Reality Has No Subtitles Re-Cut Big Bad Big Applesauce Line-of-Sight Name The Dragon Slasher Smile Parental Abandonment Disguised in Drag Grey and Gray Morality Naked People Are Funny Be Careful What You Wish For Shirtless Scene Self-Deprecation Men Are the Expendable Gender Celebrity Paradox Dark Reprise Cruel and Unusual Death Interrupted Suicide Anguished Declaration of Love Face–Heel Turn Gold Digger Anachronic Order Ax-Crazy Bound and Gagged Adapted Out Dramatic Irony The Remake Maybe Ever After Rule of Cool Damsel in Distress The '60s Red Shirt Redshirt Army Curb-Stomp Battle NO INDOOR VOICE Only One Name Cowboy Cop Riddle for the Ages Back from the Dead Posthumous Character Shell-Shocked Veteran Badass Normal Badass Boast Even Evil Has Standards Due to the Dead Overprotective Dad Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Hypocrite Babies Ever After Covers Always Lie Depraved Bisexual Video Credits Foil Meet Cute Red Oni, Blue Oni Handicapped Badass Hair-Trigger Temper Adaptational Badass Villain Protagonist Belligerent Sexual Tension As the Good Book Says... Those Two Bad Guys The Cameo Expy Smug Snake Closed Circle Historical-Domain Character Jerkass Russian Films Film Noir Index Hypocritical Humor Oh, Crap! Breaking the Fourth Wall Not Even Bothering with the Accent The Great Depression Break the Cutie Arch-Enemy Major Injury Underreaction Friend to All Children Conspicuous CG Death of a Child All Men Are Perverts No-Holds-Barred Beatdown "The Reason You Suck" Speech Daddy's Girl My Beloved Smother Thriller Well-Intentioned Extremist Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Cool Old Lady Deconstruction Mexican Standoff Dies Wide Open Hollywood Darkness Parental Incest Black Comedy Eyepatch of Power Refuge in Audacity Flipping the Bird True Companions Curse Cut Short Destination Defenestration Laughing Mad The Load Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Artistic License – Gun Safety Same Language Dub All Girls Want Bad Boys Death by Sex He Knows Too Much Unusually Uninteresting Sight Police Brutality "Well Done, Son!" 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Artistic License – Military Last-Name Basis Pimped-Out Dress Heterosexual Life-Partners Documentary Film Noir Amusing Injuries Historical Hero Upgrade The Mole Those Two Guys Take That! 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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome He Who Fights Monsters Book-Ends Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Manly Tears Redemption Equals Death Catch-Phrase Those Wacky Nazis Mystery and Detective Films Annoying Younger Sibling Beta Couple Anachronism Stew An Aesop Bury Your Gays Reckless Gun Usage Gone Horribly Right Creepy Child Dark Is Not Evil All There in the Manual Product Placement Ghost Fiction Stylistic Suck An Arm and a Leg Hero Antagonist Brother–Sister Incest Artistic License – Biology Enemy Mine Spiritual Successor Smoking Is Cool Bitch in Sheep's Clothing No Antagonist Eureka Moment O.O.C. Is Serious Business Psychological Thriller Spared by the Adaptation Decoy Protagonist Not What It Looks Like Adaptation Expansion Coming-of-Age Story Unspoken Plan Guarantee All There in the Script Psychopathic Manchild Drives Like Crazy Evil Brit Deliberately Monochrome Big "NO!" Not So Stoic Race Against the Clock Insane Troll Logic Irony Disappeared Dad Getting Crap Past the Radar Took a Level in Badass Stock Footage Police are Useless A Minor Kidroduction Blatant Lies The Faceless Silence Is Golden Nice Guy Age Lift Air-Vent Passageway Unreliable Narrator The Bully