Tropescilloscope: The Big Guy

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Evil Sounds Deep Only in It for the Money Big-Bad Ensemble Everyone Has Standards Gratuitous English The Bad Guy Wins Calling the Old Man Out Music Stories Our Vampires Are Different Really Gets Around Accidental Misnaming Chiaroscuro All for Nothing Fantasy Films The '90s The Dragon Properly Paranoid The Vamp Artistic License – Law Hypocrite Adaptation Dye-Job Mugging the Monster Aside Glance Mythology Gag Instant Death Bullet Due to the Dead Nice Guy Brick Joke Outrun the Fireball The Dreaded Random Events Plot Air-Vent Passageway Trailers Always Spoil Offscreen Moment of Awesome Japanese Films Sci-Fi Horror Taking You with Me Blatant Lies Crucified Hero Shot Never Trust a Trailer Hypocritical Humor Roaring Rampage of Revenge Mr. Fanservice Fantastic Racism Based on a True Story Butt-Monkey No Name Given Dramatic Irony Breaking the Fourth Wall Bad Boss Exactly What It Says on the Tin Closed Circle Dies Wide Open Big "NO!" In Medias Res Serious Business All There in the Manual The Sociopath Flashback Deliberate Values Dissonance Left the Background Music On Maybe Ever After Attempted Rape Artistic License – Gun Safety Super Strength What Happened to the Mouse? Failed a Spot Check Mood Whiplash Dressing as the Enemy Star-Crossed Lovers Soundtrack Dissonance The Voiceless Domestic Abuse You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Bottomless Magazines Overly Long Gag Empathic Environment Pyrrhic Victory No OSHA Compliance Animal Title Index Leitmotif Cat Scare Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Handicapped Badass Celebrity Paradox Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Only Sane Man Adaptational Heroism My Greatest Failure Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Recycled IN SPACE! Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Worthy Opponent The Ghost Motor Mouth Christmas Movies Index The Stoner She's Got Legs Jerkass Has a Point The Smart Guy Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Half the Man He Used to Be Parental Incest Ass Shove Villain Ball The Alleged Car Adaptational Badass Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Australian Movies Hollywood Darkness Token Minority Antagonist Title Distracted by the Sexy Mama Bear Bait-and-Switch Would Hurt a Child "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue I Did What I Had to Do Deus ex Machina Smoking Is Cool Hero of Another Story The Load Names to Run Away from Really Fast Humiliation Conga Put on a Bus Dull Surprise Tap on the Head Black Comedy Rape Shirtless Scene Awesome, but Impractical Jerkass Bloodier and Gorier Chekhov's Gun Daylight Horror Revenge Obstructive Bureaucrat Redemption Equals Death Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Television Movie Index Affably Evil Reality Is Unrealistic No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Naïve Newcomer Historical-Domain Character Rewatch Bonus Genre Throwback Disney Death Re-Cut Politically Incorrect Villain Military and Warfare Films In the Back Combat Pragmatist Unreliable Narrator Captain Ersatz Knight Templar Slasher Movie Bittersweet Ending Big Applesauce Hope Spot Informed Ability Mighty Whitey Scenery Gorn The Hero The Faceless Drives Like Crazy Age Lift The Smurfette Principle Covers Always Lie Bond One-Liner Spiteful Spit Broken Aesop Horror Films Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Big Bad Duumvirate Stalker with a Crush Cold-Blooded Torture Abhorrent Admirer Black Best Friend Only Known by Their Nickname "The Reason You Suck" Speech Retcon Blood Knight Bond Villain Stupidity Not So Stoic The X of Y Precision F-Strike Posthumous Character Defiant to the End Gold Digger Silence Is Golden Those Two Bad Guys Bland-Name Product The Musical Creator Cameo Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Car Fu Drowning My Sorrows Boom, Headshot! Show Within a Show I'm a Humanitarian Pretty Little Headshots I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Action Survivor Dutch Angle Annoying Younger Sibling Ghost Fiction Woman in White Evil Is Hammy Implacable Man Ominous Latin Chanting May–December Romance Here We Go Again! Stock Footage Meet Cute Authority Equals Asskicking Hate Sink Faux Affably Evil Central Theme Thriller Enemy Mine Chekhov's Gunman Heel Realization Dropped a Bridge on Him Exact Words The Lancer Deconstruction Death by Adaptation Brainless Beauty Extremely Short Timespan Big Eater Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Fourth Date Marriage Suddenly SHOUTING! 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The '70s Eureka Moment Reality Ensues Better to Die than Be Killed Never My Fault All There in the Script Intrepid Reporter Lampshade Hanging Faking the Dead From Bad to Worse Fanservice Death by Sex Sole Survivor There Is No Kill Like Overkill Market-Based Title Pet the Dog Dual Wielding Evil Counterpart Bilingual Bonus Shipper on Deck An Axe to Grind Imagine Spot Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday NO INDOOR VOICE Mexican Standoff For the Evulz Bi the Way Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Psycho for Hire Our Zombies Are Different Composite Character Novelization After the End A.I. Is a Crapshoot Mercy Kill Arc Words Femme Fatale Sports Stories Wicked Cultured The Un-Reveal Manic Pixie Dream Girl Rousing Speech Badass Grandpa Epic Movie Armor-Piercing Question Race Against the Clock Chekhov's Skill Artistic License – Geography Vampire Fiction Off with His Head! 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Setting Update Hidden Depths Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Plot Hole Coming-of-Age Story Up to Eleven Freeze-Frame Bonus A God Am I Straight Gay Unspoken Plan Guarantee Adaptation Expansion It Can Think Overprotective Dad Soft Glass Too Dumb to Live More Dakka Wounded Gazelle Gambit Bloody Hilarious Greater-Scope Villain Ambiguously Gay Black and Gray Morality Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Fate Worse than Death Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Casanova Wretched Hive Artistic License – Physics Plucky Comic Relief Man on Fire Manchild Fun with Acronyms Eagleland Cloudcuckoolander One-Man Army Driven to Suicide Heroic BSoD Tagline Gone Horribly Right Arranged Marriage Unwitting Instigator of Doom Line-of-Sight Name Department of Redundancy Department Fatal Family Photo Psychological Thriller The Starscream '80s Hair Hell Is That Noise Spanner in the Works Rule of Three Fiery Redhead Shower Scene Curse Cut Short The Chessmaster Skewed Priorities No Antagonist Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Ax-Crazy The Ditz Laughing Mad Loads and Loads of Characters As Himself Gorn Demonic Possession Bunny-Ears Lawyer Animated Credits Opening Evil-Detecting Dog Noodle Incident Cain and Abel Bald of Evil Light Is Not Good Developing Doomed Characters "Awesome McCool" Name French Films Stealth Pun Rule of Symbolism Made of Iron Take That! Comically Missing the Point Red Herring Leaning on the Fourth Wall Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Dramatic Gun Cock Cruel and Unusual Death Fainting Body Horror Action Girl Amusing Injuries Manly Tears Groin Attack Expy Large Ham Final Girl Major Injury Underreaction Scenery Porn Grey and Gray Morality No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Peek-a-Boo Corpse Suspiciously Similar Substitute For Want of a Nail Determinator aka: The Determinator Sinister Minister Very Loosely Based on a True Story Unusually Uninteresting Sight Humans Are Bastards Public Domain Feature Films Crazy-Prepared Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Cluster F-Bomb Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Cool Old Lady Karmic Death Costume Porn Badass Longcoat Time Skip It Will Never Catch On Canadian Movies Arch-Enemy This Is Gonna Suck Slasher Smile Getting Crap Past the Radar Truth in Television Guns Akimbo Rated M for Manly Never Found the Body MacGuffin Room Full of Crazy An Aesop Decoy Protagonist Rule of Funny Vomit Discretion Shot Only a Flesh Wound Let's Get Dangerous! Batman Gambit I Have Your Wife Rich Bitch Older Than They Look Word of God Drugs Are Bad Continuity Nod Facial Horror Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Villain Song Anachronic Order Get Out! 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No-Sell The Cameo Double-Meaning Title As You Know How We Got Here Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Sealed Evil in a Can Cowboy Cop Idiot Ball Made of Explodium Defrosting Ice Queen Not So Above It All Morality Pet Didn't Think This Through Action Genre As the Good Book Says... Earn Your Happy Ending Ironic Echo Extreme Doormat All Girls Want Bad Boys Dying Moment of Awesome Historical Hero Upgrade Four-Temperament Ensemble Gainax Ending Well-Intentioned Extremist Tempting Fate Retired Badass Bring My Brown Pants Danny Peary Cult Movies List Bare Your Midriff The Film of the Book Not What It Looks Like Evil Plan Reasonable Authority Figure Improbable Aiming Skills Pimped-Out Dress Badass Normal Expository Hairstyle Change The Mafia Police are Useless Male Gaze Adaptational Villainy Film Noir Index Spared by the Adaptation Playing Gertrude Madness Mantra Agony of the Feet Nothing Is Scarier Insult Backfire Throwing Your Sword Always Works Anti-Villain Amoral Attorney Face Death with Dignity Corrupt Corporate Executive Does This Remind You of Anything? And I Must Scream Yandere Eye Scream Important Haircut Film Series Cassandra Truth Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Catapult Nightmare And the Adventure Continues Shell-Shocked Veteran Children Are Innocent Stylistic Suck Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Hoist by His Own Petard Camp Gay The Reveal Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Self-Deprecation Together in Death Toplessness from the Back Heroes Want Redheads Hollywood Law Interrupted Suicide Beware the Nice Ones Laser-Guided Karma War Is Hell Lock and Load Montage Woman Scorned She Cleans Up Nicely Video Credits Pre-Mortem One-Liner The Power of Love Guile Hero Ambiguous Ending Anti-Hero Kill 'em All Big Fancy House The Remake Death by Irony Naked People Are Funny Kick the Son of a Bitch Friend to All Children Immune to Bullets Karma Houdini Back from the Dead Mystery and Detective Films Mundane Made Awesome Villain with Good Publicity Kick the Dog The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Storming the Castle It's Personal Chewing the Scenery Narrator Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Last-Name Basis German Films Undying Loyalty Bavarian Fire Drill Meaningful Name Black Comedy Unusual Euphemism BFG Card-Carrying Villain Needs Wiki Magic Love Blackmail Serial Killer Henpecked Husband Match Cut Manipulative Bastard Actor Allusion Fat Bastard Punch-Clock Villain Visual Pun Freudian Excuse Evil vs. Evil Hooker with a Heart of Gold Paper-Thin Disguise Adaptation Name Change Training Montage Heel–Face Turn Foregone Conclusion Black Dude Dies First Killed Mid-Sentence Deal with the Devil Even Evil Has Standards What the Hell, Hero? Crazy Jealous Guy Dumb Blonde Vacation Films Shoot the Shaggy Dog Bar Brawl Death Glare Cool Shades Malevolent Masked Men Kids Are Cruel N-Word Privileges Early Installment Weirdness Betty and Veronica No Ending Adapted Out The Chick And Starring Catch-Phrase Romantic Comedy Auto Erotica Works Set in World War II Becoming the Mask Establishing Character Moment Take a Third Option Wham Line Sassy Black Woman Jump Scare Foil Corpsing Dogged Nice Guy Author Avatar Every Car Is a Pinto Dissonant Serenity Evil Laugh Downer Ending Ambiguous Disorder Curb-Stomp Battle O.O.C. Is Serious Business Real Life The '60s Abusive Parents Ascended Extra Captain Obvious Diabolus ex Machina Romantic False Lead Real Life Writes the Plot Red Right Hand Affectionate Parody The Big Guy Darkest Hour Insane Troll Logic Meaningful Echo Bowdlerise Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Canon Foreigner Disney Villain Death All Men Are Perverts Badass Bookworm Have a Gay Old Time No Celebrities Were Harmed Badass Boast Sequel Escalation The Quiet One Early-Bird Cameo Protagonist Title folderlabel Parental Neglect Knife Nut Not So Different Race Lift Not Using the "Z" Word A Father to His Men Action Prologue Bound and Gagged Alpha Bitch Kill It with Fire Badass in a Nice Suit Mind Screw Jerk Jock Jitter Cam From Nobody to Nightmare Happily Married Epic Fail Genre Savvy The Atoner Berserk Button Alas, Poor Villain Rasputinian Death A Date with Rosie Palms Red Shirt Pretty in Mink Adults Are Useless Even Evil Has Loved Ones The Dog Bites Back Make It Look Like an Accident Evil Brit World of Ham Screw the Money, I Have Rules! La Résistance The Oner The Stoic Call-Back What You Are in the Dark The Hero Dies I Need a Freaking Drink Wham Shot Took a Level in Jerkass Babies Ever After