Tropescilloscope: Determinator aka: The Determinator

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Is a Crapshoot Vomit Discretion Shot A Minor Kidroduction Dutch Angle MacGuffin The Great Depression He Who Fights Monsters Badass Bookworm Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Hypocrite 20 Minutes into the Future Sealed Evil in a Can Accidental Murder For Want of a Nail Cain and Abel Extremely Short Timespan Spanner in the Works The '70s Better to Die than Be Killed Loophole Abuse After the End Determinator Be Careful What You Wish For Chekhov's Gunman Worthy Opponent Throwing Your Sword Always Works Conspicuous CG Show Within a Show Thriller In Name Only Bottomless Magazines The '60s You Killed My Father Attempted Rape Big Fancy House Even Evil Has Standards Evil Laugh Match Cut Hong Kong Films Take That! Important Haircut Taking the Bullet Guns Akimbo As You Know Dies Wide Open Took a Level in Jerkass Mexican Standoff Deal with the Devil Science Fiction Films Heel Realization Fantastic Racism Anachronism Stew Does Not Like Shoes Index of Film Westerns Blood Knight Rewatch Bonus An Arm and a Leg Dressing as the Enemy Missing Mom Sports Stories Mighty Whitey Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Immune to Bullets Hidden Depths Redemption Equals Death Time Skip Adapted Out Bavarian Fire Drill Vampire Fiction Abusive Parents One-Word Title Bland-Name Product Cat Scare Papa Wolf The Brute Mugging the Monster Paper-Thin Disguise Artistic License – Military Actually Pretty Funny Stealth Pun Arranged Marriage No Antagonist Hollywood Darkness Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Blood from the Mouth Bloodier and Gorier Death by Adaptation Interrupted Suicide Defiant to the End Babies Ever After Hell Is That Noise Vomit Indiscretion Shot Silent Movie Bar Brawl Demonic Possession Character Development Rule of Symbolism Broken Pedestal Pretty Little Headshots I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Friend to All Children Villain Song Age Lift Small Name, Big Ego Chekhov's Skill Award-Bait Song Henpecked Husband Badass Longcoat I Did What I Had to Do Breaking the Fourth Wall Scenery Porn Badass in a Nice Suit Gilligan Cut Ass Shove As Himself Villain with Good Publicity Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Kids Are Cruel Asshole Victim No Celebrities Were Harmed BFG Malevolent Masked Men Neck Snap Intergenerational Friendship Video Credits Combat Pragmatist The Mafia Title Drop Hollywood Law Those Two Bad Guys Heroic BSoD Defrosting Ice Queen Mythology Gag Nothing Is Scarier You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Killed Mid-Sentence Black and Gray Morality Captain Ersatz Chiaroscuro Dirty Coward Early Installment Weirdness Hair-Trigger Temper Bond One-Liner Chewing the Scenery Historical Hero Upgrade The Big Guy Wham Line Wretched Hive Vitriolic Best Buds Novelization Pyrrhic Victory Hoist by His Own Petard Blonde, Brunette, Redhead The Film of the Book Romantic Comedy Meaningful Background Event The Chick Biopic Adaptation Distillation Stepford Smiler Faking the Dead Australian Movies Lock and Load Montage Sequel Escalation Really Gets Around Dull Surprise Woman Scorned Kick the Son of a Bitch Air-Vent Passageway Badass Normal Destination Defenestration The Alleged Car Politically Incorrect Villain Unreliable Narrator Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Reasonable Authority Figure Exact Words Cool Old Lady Meaningful Name Flipping the Bird Slap-Slap-Kiss Exactly What It Says on the Tin Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Logo Joke Reality Ensues Covers Always Lie Genre Savvy The Smart Guy Catapult Nightmare O.O.C. Is Serious Business Jerk Jock Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold The X of Y Rule of Cool Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Men Are the Expendable Gender Wham Shot Tagline Not What It Looks Like The Cameo Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Animal Title Index N-Word Privileges Driven to Suicide Based on a True Story Off-into-the-Distance Ending '80s Hair Annoying Younger Sibling Naïve Newcomer Reality Is Unrealistic Deadpan Snarker Costume Porn Central Theme Crapsack World Take a Third Option The '80s Storming the Castle Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Jerkass Ghost Fiction Super Strength Freudian Excuse Half the Man He Used to Be Camp Gay Deconstruction Credits Gag Insult Backfire Dark Is Not Evil Only a Flesh Wound Sacrificial Lion Film Series Shout-Out Antagonist Title Black Best Friend Fatal Flaw Very Loosely Based on a True Story Meaningful Echo The Ace Hate Sink All There in the Manual Children Are Innocent Gory Discretion Shot Took a Level in Badass Room Full of Crazy The Un-Reveal Red Right Hand Silence Is Golden Black Dude Dies First A Date with Rosie Palms Instant Death Bullet From Nobody to Nightmare Action Survivor Irony Names to Run Away from Really Fast Creative Closing Credits War Is Hell Dwindling Party Death by Sex Canadian Movies Spell My Name with an "S" Russian Films Back from the Dead Death of a Child Left the Background Music On All There in the Script Heroic Sacrifice Rule of Three Early-Bird Cameo Pragmatic Villainy Black Comedy Rape The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Sadistic Choice He Knows Too Much Training Montage Not So Stoic Cruel and Unusual Death Plucky Comic Relief Eiffel Tower Effect Downer Ending Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Adaptational Badass Coming-of-Age Story Race Lift Dissonant Serenity Didn't Think This Through Poor Communication Kills Adaptational Villainy Due to the Dead Alliterative Name The Stoic Serious Business Humiliation Conga Demoted to Extra Dying Moment of Awesome Token Minority The Starscream Television Movie Index Never Trust a Trailer Light Is Not Good Agony of the Feet Enemy Mine Real Life Writes the Plot Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The Lost Lenore My Greatest Failure Call-Forward Cluster F-Bomb Damsel in Distress Body Horror Chase Scene The '90s Horror Comedy Ambiguous Disorder Straight Gay Shower Scene It Will Never Catch On Dumb Blonde Affably Evil What the Hell, Hero? Punch-Clock Villain Not So Above It All Unresolved Sexual Tension Evil Is Petty Historical Villain Upgrade Not Even Bothering with the Accent Film Noir Adaptational Heroism Cloudcuckoolander Expository Hairstyle Change Darker and Edgier "Awesome McCool" Name Jump Scare Four-Temperament Ensemble Fish out of Water Alas, Poor Villain The Load Visual Pun Posthumous Character B-Movie Accidental Misnaming Almost Kiss Cool Car Laser-Guided Karma Beauty Is Never Tarnished Spiritual Successor Arch-Enemy Fanservice Not Quite Dead Documentary In the Back Dramatic Gun Cock Pay Evil unto Evil Kill 'em All Action Girl Brutal Honesty Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Beta Couple Dramatic Irony You Have Failed Me Smug Snake Evil Plan There Is No Kill Like Overkill The End... Or Is It? Retirony Good Is Not Nice Police Brutality May–December Romance Pimped-Out Dress A God Am I Big Applesauce Everyone Has Standards Mama Bear Empathic Environment Double Entendre Mr. Fanservice Leitmotif Bittersweet Ending The Ditz Getting Crap Past the Radar Psycho for Hire Fake Shemp French Films Scary Black Man Cat Fight Car Fu No Ending Fat Bastard Race Against the Clock Bound and Gagged Batman Gambit Shown Their Work Handicapped Badass Superhero Mistaken for Gay Armor-Piercing Question The Bad Guy Wins The Voiceless Peek-a-Boo Corpse Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Off with His Head! Same Language Dub Playing Gertrude Butt-Monkey Laughing Mad Dramedy Honor Before Reason Disappeared Dad Translation Convention Anachronic Order Brainless Beauty Informed Ability Maybe Ever After Facial Horror Gainax Ending Obviously Evil Monumental Damage Our Zombies Are Different Expy Woman in White Genre Shift Beard of Evil Dual Wielding Bring My Brown Pants Hope Spot Slasher Movie Dark and Troubled Past Bald of Evil The Sociopath Evil-Detecting Dog Deliberate Values Dissonance Manic Pixie Dream Girl Undying Loyalty Adaptational Attractiveness Eye Scream Epic Fail Made of Iron "Shaggy Dog" Story Scenery Gorn No Name Given As Long as It Sounds Foreign Femme Fatale Deus ex Machina German Films Properly Paranoid Catch-Phrase Evil Is Hammy Adaptation Name Change Brother–Sister Incest Unwitting Instigator of Doom Obstructive Bureaucrat Death Glare Rule of Funny Break the Haughty Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Celebrity Paradox Hooker with a Heart of Gold Unspoken Plan Guarantee Determinator aka: The Determinator Shipper on Deck The Vamp Epic Movie Bloody Hilarious Public Domain Feature Films Curb-Stomp Battle Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Stylistic Suck Authority Equals Asskicking Bare Your Midriff Bloodless Carnage Ambiguously Gay All Girls Want Bad Boys Blackmail Deliberately Monochrome Heel–Face Turn Frame-Up NO INDOOR VOICE Imagine Spot Final Girl Put on a Bus Intrepid Reporter Drowning My Sorrows Every Car Is a Pinto Have a Gay Old Time Vacation Films Sexy Discretion Shot Genre Throwback Serial Killer Slasher Smile Oh, Crap! Stealth Hi/Bye Adorkable Last-Name Basis Easily Forgiven Gorn Cool Guns Distracted by the Sexy Line-of-Sight Name Toplessness from the Back Drives Like Crazy Big Bad Duumvirate Yandere All Men Are Perverts Whole Plot Reference Casting Gag Never My Fault Stalker with a Crush Random Events Plot Cool Old Guy