Tropescilloscope: Determinator aka: The Determinator

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Authority Equals Asskicking Sir Swears-a-Lot Star-Crossed Lovers Evil vs. Evil Beta Couple The Reveal Faking the Dead Missing Mom Market-Based Title All for Nothing Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Humiliation Conga Slasher Movie Badass Bookworm Off with His Head! Really Gets Around Death by Sex Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality He Who Fights Monsters Genre Throwback Ax-Crazy Berserk Button Evil Is Hammy Belligerent Sexual Tension Ungrateful Bastard Hate Sink Sequel Escalation Determinator aka: The Determinator Serious Business What You Are in the Dark Establishing Character Moment Bad Boss Costume Porn Peek-a-Boo Corpse "Awesome McCool" Name Manipulative Bastard I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The Bad Guy Wins Only in It for the Money Canon Foreigner Chase Scene Big Bad Boom, Headshot! Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Animated Credits Opening Took a Level in Badass Dark Reprise Shout-Out Evil Laugh The '90s Big Applesauce Ambiguously Gay From Nobody to Nightmare Mighty Whitey Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Fire-Forged Friends Protagonist Title BFG Comically Missing the Point Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Serial Killer It Can Think Those Wacky Nazis Demoted to Extra Cruel and Unusual Death Determinator folderlabel Historical In-Joke As Long as It Sounds Foreign Retired Badass Meaningful Echo Half the Man He Used to Be Politically Incorrect Villain Bloodless Carnage My Beloved Smother Drives Like Crazy Up to Eleven Amusing Injuries Anti-Villain Names to Run Away from Really Fast The Ditz Dirty Cop Stepford Smiler As the Good Book Says... Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Documentary Blatant Lies Despair Event Horizon All Men Are Perverts Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Asshole Victim Get Out! Paper-Thin Disguise Mr. Fanservice Running Gag Offscreen Teleportation True Companions Chekhov's Gunman Babies Ever After Green-Eyed Monster Retcon Unwitting Instigator of Doom Scenery Porn Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Non-Indicative Name Let's Get Dangerous! No-Sell Broken Bird Neck Snap Training Montage Fat Bastard Anti-Hero Biopic Antagonist Title In Name Only Greater-Scope Villain Motor Mouth Arch-Enemy My God, What Have I Done? "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Evil Is Petty Hypocritical Humor Totally Radical Madness Mantra The Place Science Fiction Films Kick the Dog Sequel Hook Award-Bait Song What Happened to the Mouse? 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Psychopathic Manchild Big Brother Instinct Ms. Fanservice Pretty in Mink Black Dude Dies First Mad Scientist Large Ham Intergenerational Friendship Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Is a Crapshoot French Films Film Series Your Head A-Splode Self-Deprecation Decoy Protagonist It Will Never Catch On Hair-Trigger Temper Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Spanner in the Works Maybe Ever After 20 Minutes into the Future Curb-Stomp Battle Gilligan Cut Deliberately Monochrome Take a Third Option Dramatic Gun Cock He Knows Too Much Bury Your Gays Hollywood Law Bolivian Army Ending Meaningful Name Chiaroscuro Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Dropped a Bridge on Him Word of God Car Fu Smug Snake Villain Song Cool Old Guy Catch-Phrase Handicapped Badass Disproportionate Retribution Early Installment Weirdness Facial Horror Death of a Child Aluminum Christmas Trees Bi the Way Television Movie Index Wham Shot Eye Scream What the Hell, Hero? The Alcoholic Romantic False Lead Corpsing Deconstruction Oh, Crap! The Brute How We Got Here Only Sane Man Amoral Attorney N-Word Privileges The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite A God Am I Cloudcuckoolander Soundtrack Dissonance Central Theme Villain Opening Scene Spiritual Successor Did Not Get the Girl Adult Fear Death by Irony Superhero Eldritch Abomination The '70s Vitriolic Best Buds Thriller Posthumous Character My Greatest Failure Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Grey and Gray Morality Action Prologue Sadistic Choice Fanservice Extra Early-Bird Cameo Face–Heel Turn Empathic Environment Conspicuous CG Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Stinger Defiant to the End Meaningful Background Event Love at First Sight Bond Villain Stupidity Eiffel Tower Effect In Medias Res Dogged Nice Guy Our Zombies Are Different Crapsack World Christmas Movies Index Bloodier and Gorier Blood from the Mouth Bunny-Ears Lawyer Off-into-the-Distance Ending Betty and Veronica Wicked Cultured Manic Pixie Dream Girl Those Two Guys The Load Vampire Fiction Exactly What It Says on the Tin The Quiet One The Voiceless Room Full of Crazy Four-Temperament Ensemble Artistic License – Geography The End... Or Is It? Ass Shove Sacrificial Lion Soft Glass Silent Movie For the Evulz Suspiciously Specific Denial All There in the Script Easily Forgiven Dull Surprise Race Against the Clock For Want of a Nail Fingore Throwing Your Sword Always Works You Killed My Father Pimped-Out Dress Badass Grandpa Vomit Discretion Shot Unresolved Sexual Tension Poor Communication Kills Mercy Kill Character Development Random Events Plot Red Right Hand Domestic Abuse Big-Bad Ensemble Bring My Brown Pants Artistic License – Military Rule of Three "Well Done, Son!" Guy Karma Houdini Double Entendre Idiot Ball Plucky Comic Relief Country Matters Outrun the Fireball Instant Death Bullet Funny Foreigner O.O.C. 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German Films Honor Before Reason Police are Useless Never My Fault Pet the Dog Ironic Echo Insistent Terminology Author Avatar Storming the Castle Credits Gag Disappeared Dad Epic Movie Rich Bitch Death Seeker Horror Films Mistaken for Gay Ripped from the Headlines Actually Pretty Funny Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Face Death with Dignity Cat Fight Earn Your Happy Ending Hollywood Darkness Double-Meaning Title Bland-Name Product Based on a True Story Scare Chord Mr. Exposition Shown Their Work Obstructive Bureaucrat Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Rated M for Manly Anachronism Stew Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Affably Evil Artistic License – Law Fainting Enemy Mine The Dog Bites Back Last-Name Basis Five-Man Band Parental Abandonment Spiteful Spit Actor Allusion Pretty Little Headshots Fatal Flaw Would Hit a Girl Pragmatic Adaptation Reality Is Unrealistic Mood Whiplash Public Domain Feature Films Alpha Bitch Kill 'em All All Just a Dream