Tropescilloscope: Tempting Fate

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Even Evil Has Loved Ones Extreme Doormat Monumental Damage Hypocrite Loophole Abuse Dark Action Girl Auto Erotica Rule of Cool Bound and Gagged Dogged Nice Guy Did Not Get the Girl Parental Incest Kill 'em All Narrator Conspicuous CG Hair-Trigger Temper Romantic False Lead Small Name, Big Ego Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Reveal No Celebrities Were Harmed The Oner Pet the Dog The Starscream A Father to His Men The Hero Wretched Hive Make It Look Like an Accident Camera Abuse Daylight Horror Double Entendre Storming the Castle Mundane Made Awesome The Un-Reveal Stealth Hi/Bye Bond Villain Stupidity Unwitting Instigator of Doom Manchild All for Nothing Epic Fail Creepy Child Rule of Symbolism Facial Horror Anguished Declaration of Love Crazy-Prepared Throwing Your Sword Always Works Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Dirty Coward Deconstruction Bland-Name Product Film Noir Index Cruel and Unusual Death Hollywood Law Ass Shove The Bully Chekhov's Gunman Mugging the Monster Victoria's Secret Compartment The Vamp Dressing as the Enemy The Musical Brick Joke Mooks Gainax Ending Faking the Dead Film Series Title Drop Bloody Hilarious Fantasy Films Corpsing Rule of Three Star-Crossed Lovers Vampire Fiction For Want of a Nail Bury Your Gays The Load Slap-Slap-Kiss Age Lift Back from the Dead Hero Antagonist Black Dude Dies First Villain Ball Big Damn Heroes Eldritch Abomination Big-Bad Ensemble Properly Paranoid Pay Evil unto Evil Hell Is That Noise Mad Scientist Call-Forward Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Green-Eyed Monster Race Against the Clock Action Survivor Defiant to the End Cat Scare What Happened to the Mouse? Undying Loyalty After the End More Dakka Retcon The Smurfette Principle Kubrick Stare Dual Wielding Parental Neglect Blood Knight Creator Cameo Captain Ersatz This Is Gonna Suck Shout-Out "The Reason You Suck" Speech Belligerent Sexual Tension Noodle Incident Gorn "Shaggy Dog" Story Adults Are Useless Spiteful Spit Only Known by Their Nickname The Remake Drowning My Sorrows Fiery Redhead The Atoner No Good Deed Goes Unpunished 20 Minutes into the Future Protagonist Title Distracted by the Sexy The Stoic Curb-Stomp Battle Not Even Bothering with the Accent Tempting Fate Beta Couple Killed Mid-Sentence Leave the Camera Running Setting Update Epic Movie Air-Vent Passageway Artistic License – Geography The Casanova Celebrity Paradox Reality Ensues Eagleland Offscreen Moment of Awesome It Will Never Catch On Riddle for the Ages Cold-Blooded Torture Hero of Another Story Police are Useless Documentary As Himself Show Within a Show Didn't Think This Through Actually Pretty Funny timeperiod Took a Level in Jerkass Crucified Hero Shot Vomit Discretion Shot Eye Scream Improbable Aiming Skills Not So Above It All Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Amoral Attorney Darkest Hour Naïve Newcomer Redemption Equals Death Your Head A-Splode Dying Moment of Awesome Ungrateful Bastard Brother–Sister Incest Final Girl Film Noir Exact Words Wham Line Pyrrhic Victory Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Broken Pedestal Big Bad Mexican Standoff Hong Kong Films Obviously Evil Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Line-of-Sight Name I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The '60s How We Got Here Famous Last Words Thriller Affably Evil Irony Death by Adaptation Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Older Than They Look The '80s Suspiciously Similar Substitute Rated M for Manly An Axe to Grind Crapsack World Shoot the Shaggy Dog Alliterative Name Humiliation Conga Action Prologue Hate Sink Fanservice Daddy's Girl Casting Gag Faux Affably Evil Bald of Evil Four-Temperament Ensemble Deal with the Devil Our Vampires Are Different Sacrificial Lion What You Are in the Dark Suddenly SHOUTING! Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Advertised Extra The Great Depression British Films Hollywood Darkness Easily Forgiven Super Strength Animal Motifs The Ditz Credits Gag Vitriolic Best Buds Australian Movies Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Death by Irony Ascended Extra Would Hurt a Child Time Skip Romantic Comedy A.I. Is a Crapshoot Empathic Environment Large Ham Cluster F-Bomb Evil Counterpart Dark Reprise Sole Survivor Martial Arts Movie Nice Hat Bad "Bad Acting" Deus ex Machina The Dragon Sadistic Choice Manic Pixie Dream Girl Slasher Movie Whole Plot Reference A God Am I Nice Guy Take That! Race Lift Genre Savvy Logo Joke She's Got Legs Villain Song Adaptational Badass Heel Realization Mr. Exposition Fate Worse than Death Same Language Dub Half the Man He Used to Be Immune to Bullets Karma Houdini Psychopathic Manchild Spanner in the Works Gory Discretion Shot Outrun the Fireball Disproportionate Retribution One-Word Title Homage Destination Defenestration The Lancer All There in the Script Worthy Opponent Big Bad Duumvirate Adult Fear No Ending Public Domain Feature Films Abusive Parents Canadian Movies Bare Your Midriff Madness Mantra The Brute Historical In-Joke Determinator aka: The Determinator Red Shirt Historical Hero Upgrade Action Genre Those Two Guys Jerk Jock You Have Failed Me Catapult Nightmare Heel–Face Turn Major Injury Underreaction Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Say My Name Ms. Fanservice The Alleged Car Badass Normal Accidental Murder Obfuscating Stupidity The Sociopath Badass in a Nice Suit Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other As Long as It Sounds Foreign Shut Up, Hannibal! Apocalypse How Big Brother Instinct The Voiceless Smoking Is Cool Not Quite Dead Danny Peary Cult Movies List Cool Shades Stalker with a Crush Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Mood Whiplash Naked People Are Funny Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Only One Name Anyone Can Die '80s Hair Sexy Discretion Shot Shown Their Work The Dog Bites Back It Can Think Black Comedy Reasonable Authority Figure Early Installment Weirdness Red Eyes, Take Warning Drill Sergeant Nasty Honor Before Reason Reality Is Unrealistic Children Are Innocent Yandere No Name Given Deliberate Values Dissonance Groin Attack Red Oni, Blue Oni One Steve Limit Berserk Button Chiaroscuro He Knows Too Much A Date with Rosie Palms The Lost Lenore Television Movie Index Curse Cut Short Central Theme Fourth Date Marriage Coming-of-Age Story Let's Get Dangerous! Spiritual Successor Names to Run Away from Really Fast No OSHA Compliance Sports Stories Up to Eleven Shell-Shocked Veteran The Stinger Adaptation Dye-Job Actor Allusion Annoying Younger Sibling Well-Intentioned Extremist Artistic License – Biology Contrived Coincidence Historical-Domain Character Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Wicked Cultured Reality Has No Subtitles Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Hoist by His Own Petard Hope Spot Shipper on Deck The Cavalry Bolivian Army Ending Evil Is Hammy Kick the Dog Ambiguous Ending Soft Glass The Power of Love Dropped a Bridge on Him Manly Tears Death Seeker Fatal Family Photo Big Eater The Place Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Black Best Friend Amusing Injuries Bottomless Magazines Horror Films Artistic License – Gun Safety Good Is Not Nice Department of Redundancy Department Bowdlerise Gilligan Cut Wounded Gazelle Gambit Papa Wolf Tap on the Head Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The '50s Arc Words Dirty Cop Artistic License – Military Intergenerational Friendship Deliberately Monochrome Sinister Minister Music Stories Only a Flesh Wound Cat Fight The '70s Precision F-Strike Beauty Is Never Tarnished Disney Death Ambiguous Disorder Plucky Comic Relief Video Credits True Companions Drugs Are Bad Bait-and-Switch Wrong Genre Savvy Dark and Troubled Past Dramatic Irony Fat Bastard War Is Hell The Chick Translation Convention Unusual Euphemism Malevolent Masked Men Dumb Blonde All Just a Dream Insult Backfire I Did What I Had to Do Death Glare Biopic He Who Fights Monsters Sanity Slippage Meaningful Echo Adaptation Expansion Laser-Guided Karma Camp Gay Double-Meaning Title Evil Sounds Deep Big "NO!" Never My Fault Not So Different Your Cheating Heart Unusually Uninteresting Sight Butt-Monkey Anti-Hero Black and Gray Morality An Aesop Random Events Plot Pretty Little Headshots Leitmotif Early-Bird Cameo Not Using the "Z" Word Psycho for Hire Sequel Hook Product Placement May–December Romance Bittersweet Ending Our Zombies Are Different Rich Bitch Offscreen Teleportation The Mafia And the Adventure Continues Mystery and Detective Films Anti-Villain Genre Shift Fingore Grievous Bottley Harm Novelization Punny Name Does Not Like Shoes Light Is Not Good Paper-Thin Disguise And I Must Scream It's Personal Smug Snake Agony of the Feet "Awesome McCool" Name Every Car Is a Pinto Damsel in Distress Card-Carrying Villain Parental Substitute Anachronism Stew Taking the Bullet Humans Are Bastards Driven to Suicide In Name Only Foregone Conclusion Breaking the Fourth Wall O.O.C. Is Serious Business Villainous Breakdown Dutch Angle All Girls Want Bad Boys Genre Throwback Cool Old Guy German Films I Need a Freaking Drink Adaptational Attractiveness Gratuitous English Hooker with a Heart of Gold The X of Y It's All About Me Wham Shot Evil Laugh Fire-Forged Friends Rape as Drama Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Made of Explodium Pimped-Out Dress Cool Guns Heroic Sacrifice Peek-a-Boo Corpse Scenery Porn Big Fancy House Hidden Depths Posthumous Character Demonic Possession Idiot Ball Calling the Old Man Out Bad Boss Bloodier and Gorier Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Establishing Character Moment Soundtrack Dissonance Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Slasher Smile Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Scare Chord Tagline Last-Name Basis Exactly What It Says on the Tin Body Horror Spared by the Adaptation Lampshade Hanging Word of God Lock and Load Montage Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Serial Killer I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Nothing Is Scarier Chewing the Scenery Pragmatic Adaptation The Ace Dies Wide Open Enemy Mine Handicapped Badass Death by Sex Totally Radical Silent Movie Face–Heel Turn Foreshadowing The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Affectionate Parody Male Gaze The Big Guy Morality Pet Mistaken for Gay Sequel Escalation Friend to All Children Once More, with Clarity! Works Set in World War II Implacable Man Defrosting Ice Queen Redshirt Army Darker and Edgier Retired Badass Badass Bookworm Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome My Greatest Failure Retirony Woman Scorned Mama Bear No-Holds-Barred Beatdown You Killed My Father Gold Digger Informed Ability Lighter and Softer Have a Gay Old Time Karmic Death Comically Missing the Point Kids Are Cruel Badass Boast MacGuffin Car Fu Zombie Stories Kill It with Fire Christmas Movies Index Dramatic Gun Cock Earn Your Happy Ending Meet Cute Frame-Up Babies Ever After Bullying a Dragon Greater-Scope Villain Slashed Throat Not So Stoic Award-Bait Song Failed a Spot Check Dwindling Party Dirty Old Man Roaring Rampage of Revenge Villain Protagonist Never Trust a Trailer Framing Device Left the Background Music On Alpha Bitch Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Off-into-the-Distance Ending Knife Nut Composite Character Red Right Hand An Arm and a Leg Death of a Child The Stoner Manipulative Bastard Put on a Bus In the Back Sir Swears-a-Lot Evil Plan Action Girl Authority Equals Asskicking Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Arch-Enemy Rule of Funny Fatal Flaw I Have Your Wife Covers Always Lie Cloudcuckoolander Only in It for the Money Fan Disservice Crazy Jealous Guy Everyone Has Standards Straight Gay Ironic Echo A Minor Kidroduction In Medias Res Insane Troll Logic Toplessness from the Back Beware the Nice Ones Made of Iron Fainting Overly Long Gag Love Triangle Punch-Clock Villain Meaningful Name Together in Death Missing Mom Suspiciously Specific Denial Gender Flip Continuity Nod La Résistance Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Gone Horribly Right Diabolus ex Machina Russian Films Adapted Out Bloodless Carnage Artistic License – History Twist Ending Unreliable Narrator Brainless Beauty Author Avatar Evil Brit Flipping the Bird Heroes Want Redheads Funny Background Event Stepford Smiler Cain and Abel Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Bad Guy Wins Never Found the Body Villain Opening Scene Sealed Evil in a Can Disappeared Dad "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Guile Hero Ghost Fiction Stylistic Suck Rousing Speech Spell My Name with an "S" Mercy Kill Improbable Weapon User Mythology Gag Country Matters Mind Screw Demoted to Extra Better to Die than Be Killed From Bad to Worse All There in the Manual Black Comedy Rape One-Man Army Neck Lift Developing Doomed Characters Attempted Rape Obstructive Bureaucrat Refuge in Audacity Fish out of Water BFG Needs Wiki Magic Love Costume Porn Hypocritical Humor Batman Gambit Real Life Writes the Plot Shirtless Scene Pre-Mortem One-Liner Men Are the Expendable Gender Beard of Evil Fantastic Racism Character Development Sci-Fi Horror As the Good Book Says... Femme Fatale Dissonant Serenity Bi the Way Disguised in Drag Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Only Sane Man Depraved Bisexual Take a Third Option Broken Bird Even Evil Has Standards Heterosexual Life-Partners Bavarian Fire Drill Expy Evil-Detecting Dog Guns Akimbo Adaptation Distillation Jerk with a Heart of Gold Chekhov's Skill Took a Level in Badass Not What It Looks Like Artistic License – Physics Henpecked Husband Big Applesauce Tranquil Fury The Mole Awesome, but Impractical Betty and Veronica Downer Ending Those Wacky Nazis Important Haircut As You Know Chekhov's Gun Science Fiction Films Asshole Victim Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Antagonist Title Jerkass Has a Point The Faceless The Dreaded Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Catch-Phrase Mr. Fanservice Reckless Gun Usage Bar Brawl Armor-Piercing Question Plot Hole Bring My Brown Pants Freeze-Frame Bonus Fanservice Extra Ominous Latin Chanting Cowboy Cop Poor Communication Kills Motor Mouth Token Minority Ambiguously Gay Maybe Ever After Kick the Son of a Bitch Rewatch Bonus Cool Car Get Out! Ripped from the Headlines Loads and Loads of Characters Real Life Pretty in Mink Military and Warfare Films Jump Scare Broken Aesop Dark Is Not Evil You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Scenery Gorn Corrupt Corporate Executive Foil Blackmail My God, What Have I Done? The Hero Dies Heroic BSoD Author Appeal Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? No-Sell Due to the Dead Book-Ends Break the Haughty Chase Scene Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Getting Crap Past the Radar Imagine Spot Fun with Acronyms My Beloved Smother Male Frontal Nudity Overprotective Dad Jerkass Becoming the Mask Pragmatic Villainy Jitter Cam Blood from the Mouth The Smart Guy Really Gets Around Badass Grandpa Red Herring Politically Incorrect Villain Animated Credits Opening Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Stealth Pun I'm a Humanitarian World of Ham Vomit Indiscretion Shot Badass Longcoat There Is No Kill Like Overkill Brutal Honesty Bond One-Liner Horror Comedy Interrupted Suicide Domestic Abuse Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Laughing Mad N-Word Privileges Training Montage The '90s Meaningful Background Event Adorkable Too Dumb to Live From Nobody to Nightmare All Men Are Perverts Boom, Headshot! Historical Villain Upgrade You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Call-Back Market-Based Title Intrepid Reporter Eyepatch of Power Leaning on the Fourth Wall Anachronic Order Would Hit a Girl Skewed Priorities Determinator Face Death with Dignity Cassandra Truth Shower Scene Woman in White Be Careful What You Wish For The Chessmaster Arranged Marriage Based on a True Story Moment Killer Parental Abandonment Scary Black Man Playing Gertrude Dull Surprise Match Cut Adaptation Name Change Room Full of Crazy Five-Man Band Unresolved Sexual Tension Drives Like Crazy Visual Pun Taking You with Me Aluminum Christmas Trees Funny Foreigner Canon Foreigner Dramedy Decoy Protagonist Mighty Whitey Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Almost Kiss Eiffel Tower Effect Trailers Always Spoil Deadpan Snarker Villain with Good Publicity Cool Old Lady Flashback Grey and Gray Morality Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Italian Films The Alcoholic Does This Remind You of Anything? Adaptational Heroism Evil vs. Evil And Starring Aside Glance Combat Pragmatist Freudian Excuse Break the Cutie Serious Business Silence Is Golden Self-Deprecation Adaptational Villainy Expository Hairstyle Change The Film of the Book What the Hell, Hero? Improvised Weapon NO INDOOR VOICE Blatant Lies The Cameo Vacation Films Animal Title Index Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Abhorrent Admirer Insistent Terminology No Antagonist Revenge Eureka Moment Artistic License – Law Extremely Short Timespan Japanese Films Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Love at First Sight Rasputinian Death Man on Fire Very Loosely Based on a True Story Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Those Two Bad Guys Happily Married B-Movie Superhero Closed Circle Sassy Black Woman Bilingual Bonus Accidental Misnaming Running Gag Knight Templar Truth in Television Ax-Crazy