Tropescilloscope: The Ace

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A God Am I Kids Are Cruel Sanity Slippage Kick the Dog Handicapped Badass Fainting Leave the Camera Running N-Word Privileges Drill Sergeant Nasty Killed Mid-Sentence More Dakka Anti-Villain Camp Gay Stepford Smiler Mugging the Monster Title Drop Undying Loyalty Unwitting Instigator of Doom timeperiod Love at First Sight Stalker with a Crush The Lancer The Atoner Wham Line No Celebrities Were Harmed Translation Convention Serious Business Setting Update World of Ham Crapsack World Shipper on Deck Mr. Exposition Grievous Bottley Harm Parental Neglect Black Comedy Defrosting Ice Queen Amoral Attorney Body Horror Race Lift Darker and Edgier Love Triangle My Greatest Failure No Antagonist Dirty Cop Reality Has No Subtitles Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Men Are the Expendable Gender Public Domain Feature Films Crucified Hero Shot It's Personal Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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Guy Evil Sounds Deep Big Damn Heroes Hell Is That Noise In Medias Res Film Noir Index Canadian Movies Spell My Name with an "S" The Faceless Storming the Castle Fanservice Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Brainless Beauty Toplessness from the Back Catch-Phrase Deus ex Machina Protagonist Title Made of Iron Villain Opening Scene Crazy-Prepared Make It Look Like an Accident Last-Name Basis Captain Obvious Tempting Fate Star-Crossed Lovers Funny Background Event Skewed Priorities Arc Words An Arm and a Leg Mystery and Detective Films Police Brutality The Big Guy Truth in Television Sadistic Choice "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Really Gets Around Implacable Man Pimped-Out Dress Married to the Job Dramatic Gun Cock Off-into-the-Distance Ending Dumb Blonde Vomit Discretion Shot Red Oni, Blue Oni Death by Adaptation Jerkass The Hero Dies Blood from the Mouth Auto Erotica Leaning on the Fourth Wall Once More, with Clarity! 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Is a Crapshoot Our Zombies Are Different Pragmatic Adaptation Armor-Piercing Question Defiant to the End Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Country Matters Epic Movie Idiot Ball Have a Gay Old Time Those Wacky Nazis Light Is Not Good Film Noir Politically Incorrect Villain Spared by the Adaptation Offscreen Moment of Awesome The '50s Determinator The Dreaded Dull Surprise "Awesome McCool" Name You Have Failed Me Cool Car Straight Gay Stealth Pun Science Fiction Films Hero of Another Story Bring My Brown Pants Never Trust a Trailer Say My Name Pay Evil unto Evil Japanese Films Time Skip Small Name, Big Ego The Brute Exactly What It Says on the Tin Not Using the "Z" Word Kubrick Stare Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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They Really Do Love Each Other One-Man Army Disproportionate Retribution Death by Irony NO INDOOR VOICE Daylight Horror Dark Action Girl The Oner Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Evil Laugh Unresolved Sexual Tension Diabolus ex Machina Cluster F-Bomb Bound and Gagged Suspiciously Similar Substitute Wham Shot Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Film of the Book Freeze-Frame Bonus And I Must Scream Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Artistic License – Gun Safety Wounded Gazelle Gambit Hero Antagonist Damsel in Distress Becoming the Mask Nothing Is Scarier Only a Flesh Wound Sexy Discretion Shot Cruel and Unusual Death Hypocritical Humor Pyrrhic Victory Visual Pun Product Placement Psychological Thriller Unspoken Plan Guarantee Chiaroscuro Dirty Coward Romantic False Lead Woman Scorned An Axe to Grind Taking You with Me Everyone Has Standards Authority Equals Asskicking Wretched Hive Tap on the Head British Films Neck Lift Arch-Enemy Worthy Opponent Self-Deprecation An Aesop What Happened to the Mouse? Sassy Black Woman The Cameo Did Not Get the Girl Badass Boast For the Evulz Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Aside Glance Historical Villain Upgrade Noodle Incident The Cavalry Beauty Is Never Tarnished Military and Warfare Films As You Know Never Found the Body Kick the Son of a Bitch What You Are in the Dark Stealth Hi/Bye Improbable Aiming Skills As the Good Book Says... 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Let's Get Dangerous! Eiffel Tower Effect Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Market-Based Title Show Within a Show The Alleged Car Sealed Evil in a Can Meaningful Echo Names to Run Away from Really Fast Sports Stories Martial Arts Movie Does Not Like Shoes The Sociopath Evil-Detecting Dog Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday No OSHA Compliance Dark and Troubled Past Shown Their Work Action Survivor Hong Kong Films The End... Or Is It? Book-Ends The Bad Guy Wins Mood Whiplash The Dragon Cowboy Cop Belligerent Sexual Tension Sole Survivor Cool Old Guy Bald of Evil The Stoner Accidental Murder Contrived Coincidence Adaptational Badass Red Right Hand Ripped from the Headlines Daddy's Girl Combat Pragmatist Sinister Minister Laser-Guided Karma Oh, Crap! 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Actually Pretty Funny Yandere Random Events Plot Video Credits La Résistance Poor Communication Kills Your Head A-Splode Sequel Escalation Adaptation Dye-Job Scare Chord He Knows Too Much Alas, Poor Villain Deadpan Snarker Evil vs. Evil Badass Longcoat Bad Boss One Steve Limit Slasher Smile Bait-and-Switch Retired Badass Guile Hero Documentary Vampire Fiction B-Movie Intergenerational Friendship Ugly Guy, Hot Wife I Need a Freaking Drink Even Evil Has Standards Fate Worse than Death Corpsing Heel Realization Big Brother Instinct After the End Crazy Jealous Guy Needs Wiki Magic Love Hooker with a Heart of Gold Real Life Batman Gambit MacGuffin