Tropescilloscope: Taking the Bullet
Shielding someone with your own body. (read more at tvtropes.org)
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
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Only a Flesh Wound
Too Dumb to Live
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Kill 'em All
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
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War Is Hell
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Pay Evil unto Evil
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
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Drowning My Sorrows
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What the Hell, Hero?
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin
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Death by Irony
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Rated M for Manly
Mighty Whitey
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Children Are Innocent
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Your Head A-Splode
Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Names to Run Away from Really Fast
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Aluminum Christmas Trees
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Let's Get Dangerous!
Novelization
I Have Your Wife
Up to Eleven
Batman Gambit
Mr. Exposition
Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Bond One-Liner
Here We Go Again!
Love at First Sight
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Darker and Edgier
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Badass Grandpa
Hidden Depths
Posthumous Character
Cluster F-Bomb
The Remake
No Celebrities Were Harmed
Rule of Cool
Insistent Terminology
Mama Bear
Real Life
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Kill It with Fire
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Blatant Lies
Badass Longcoat
Fanservice
What You Are in the Dark
I'm a Humanitarian
Groin Attack
One-Man Army
Determinator
Room Full of Crazy
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Adaptation Name Change
Final Girl
Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Overprotective Dad
Air-Vent Passageway
Cat Scare
Beard of Evil
Corrupt Corporate Executive
Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Scare Chord
Say My Name
Bowdlerise
Word of God
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Break the Cutie
Tap on the Head
Wicked Cultured
Fingore
Comically Missing the Point
Captain Ersatz
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FaceHeel Turn
Chiaroscuro
Training Montage
Totally Radical
Idiot Ball
Bloodier and Gorier
Mad Scientist
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The Cavalry
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Double-Meaning Title
Thriller
There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Back from the Dead
Market-Based Title
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A Father to His Men
Beware the Nice Ones
Death Seeker
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Sexy Discretion Shot
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Only One Name
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Bait-and-Switch
A Minor Kidroduction
Evil vs. Evil
Unusually Uninteresting Sight
She's Got Legs
Crazy Jealous Guy
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Book-Ends
Truth in Television
No Antagonist
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Artistic License Law
Cool Old Guy
Anti-Villain
And the Adventure Continues
Insult Backfire
Trailers Always Spoil
Covers Always Lie
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Horror Comedy
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Noodle Incident
No-Sell
Guile Hero
Kick the Son of a Bitch
Butt-Monkey
The Power of Love
BrotherSister Incest
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Fat Bastard
Meaningful Background Event
Rape as Drama
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Mercy Kill
Maybe Ever After
True Companions
Ironic Echo
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Nice Hat
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All Girls Want Bad Boys
Madness Mantra
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Those Two Guys
As Himself
Catch-Phrase
"Awesome McCool" Name
Instant Death Bullet
Jerkass
Dutch Angle
Large Ham
Casting Gag
The Ghost
Fake Shemp
Grey and Gray Morality
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Put on a Bus
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Dull Surprise
My Greatest Failure
All There in the Script
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Heroic Sacrifice
The Vamp
Badass in a Nice Suit
Heel Realization
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Obfuscating Stupidity
The Lancer
Men Are the Expendable Gender
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Fourth Date Marriage
Missing Mom
Tranquil Fury
20 Minutes into the Future
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
All Just a Dream
Death Glare
Retirony
Naïve Newcomer
Early-Bird Cameo
Spanner in the Works
Romantic False Lead
Captain Obvious
Black Comedy
Film Series
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Breaking the Fourth Wall
Early Installment Weirdness
Developing Doomed Characters
Smug Snake
Your Cheating Heart
Becoming the Mask
Psycho for Hire
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Card-Carrying Villain
Age Lift
Bloodless Carnage
Distracted by the Sexy
Motor Mouth
Curse Cut Short
Enemy Mine
Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
Implacable Man
Martial Arts Movie
Red Right Hand
Hate Sink
You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!