Tropescilloscope: Tempting Fate

Don't say it—that's just asking for it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Race Against the Clock Sports Stories Only One Name Mooks Meaningful Name Captain Ersatz Flashback Decoy Protagonist Vitriolic Best Buds Nothing Is Scarier Catch-Phrase Action Girl Mistaken for Gay Red Eyes, Take Warning Real Life Writes the Plot Alliterative Name Coming-of-Age Story Big Bad Duumvirate Anachronism Stew All There in the Script Did Not Get the Girl Bloodless Carnage The Brute Loophole Abuse Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Pay Evil unto Evil Jerk Jock Took a Level in Badass You Have Failed Me An Arm and a Leg Instant Death Bullet Slasher Movie Riddle for the Ages La Résistance Half the Man He Used to Be MacGuffin Faking the Dead Malevolent Masked Men Shout-Out Suddenly SHOUTING! Aside Glance Soft Glass Tap on the Head Faux Affably Evil The Sociopath Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Rich Bitch Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Madness Mantra Word of God Sinister Minister Ambiguously Gay Be Careful What You Wish For Asshole Victim Badass in a Nice Suit Black Dude Dies First Artistic License – Geography Composite Character Visual Pun All Men Are Perverts Central Theme Obstructive Bureaucrat Eiffel Tower Effect Mugging the Monster Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Double-Meaning Title Real Life Mexican Standoff My God, What Have I Done? Insistent Terminology Rated M for Manly Smug Snake Camera Abuse Sassy Black Woman Distracted by the Sexy Horror Films Framing Device Guns Akimbo Bloody Hilarious Together in Death Villain Song Insane Troll Logic Stealth Hi/Bye Once More, with Clarity! Empathic Environment Genre Throwback Cowboy Cop Fire-Forged Friends Hollywood Darkness After the End Stylistic Suck Amoral Attorney Rule of Cool Wretched Hive Hair-Trigger Temper Those Two Bad Guys Mr. Exposition Precision F-Strike Big "NO!" 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Throwing Your Sword Always Works Ragtag Bunch of Misfits As You Know Psychological Thriller Posthumous Character The '70s Reality Has No Subtitles Black Comedy Rape Meaningful Background Event Evil-Detecting Dog Police Brutality The Mafia Naïve Newcomer Knight Templar Spared by the Adaptation Butt-Monkey Awesome, but Impractical Drowning My Sorrows Small Name, Big Ego Beware the Nice Ones Determinator Slap-Slap-Kiss Insult Backfire Stuff Blowing Up Deadpan Snarker Stepford Smiler Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Becoming the Mask Our Vampires Are Different Hypocrite Anguished Declaration of Love What You Are in the Dark Expy Parental Incest Documentary Epic Fail Martial Arts Movie Adaptational Villainy Dramatic Gun Cock Tempting Fate Historical-Domain Character Manic Pixie Dream Girl Poor Communication Kills Oh, Crap! Bring My Brown Pants Implacable Man Token Minority Big Bad Drill Sergeant Nasty Too Dumb to Live Naked People Are Funny Black and Gray Morality Action Prologue Unresolved Sexual Tension No-Sell Lighter and Softer Product Placement Developing Doomed Characters Sacrificial Lion Cool Old Lady Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Worthy Opponent Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Dies Wide Open Mind Screw Scenery Porn Beard of Evil Camp Gay Guile Hero He Who Fights Monsters Badass Boast I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Crapsack World Henpecked Husband The Ace Self-Deprecation Bilingual Bonus Unwitting Instigator of Doom Not So Stoic Berserk Button Dirty Cop Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Eyepatch of Power Well-Intentioned Extremist Get Out! 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Is Serious Business Freudian Excuse Smoking Is Cool Adaptational Badass Imagine Spot Back from the Dead For Want of a Nail Agony of the Feet The X of Y Would Hit a Girl Catapult Nightmare Not So Different Storming the Castle Tranquil Fury Bar Brawl Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Ominous Latin Chanting The Casanova Big Fancy House Handicapped Badass Face–Heel Turn '80s Hair Only a Flesh Wound Sexy Discretion Shot Aluminum Christmas Trees Bi the Way Super Strength Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique The Musical Trailers Always Spoil Cluster F-Bomb Laser-Guided Karma Ship Tease Market-Based Title Mercy Kill Romantic Comedy No Ending Man on Fire Downer Ending Advertised Extra Sequel Escalation Setting Update Alpha Bitch Names to Run Away from Really Fast Bunny-Ears Lawyer Dutch Angle Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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