Tropescilloscope: Determinator aka: The Determinator

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The Alcoholic I Have Your Wife The Hero Dies Final Girl Action Prologue Artistic License – Physics Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Action Genre Very Loosely Based on a True Story Deliberately Monochrome Everyone Has Standards Mind Screw Jump Scare Bond One-Liner Bi the Way Soundtrack Dissonance Extremely Short Timespan War Is Hell Exact Words Names to Run Away from Really Fast Rule of Symbolism Big Eater Foil Police Brutality Meaningful Echo For the Evulz Composite Character You Killed My Father Dirty Coward Twist Ending Works Set in World War II Badass Normal What the Hell, Hero? Bring My Brown Pants Action Survivor Crazy-Prepared Australian Movies Guns Akimbo Awesome, but Impractical Same Language Dub Catapult Nightmare Big Brother Instinct Italian Films Hypocritical Humor Dull Surprise Groin Attack Kill 'em All Narrator Dropped a Bridge on Him Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Documentary Once More, with Clarity! Heroic BSoD Together in Death Mugging the Monster And I Must Scream Punctuated! For! 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The Faceless Spared by the Adaptation Failed a Spot Check Married to the Job Kubrick Stare Take a Third Option Madness Mantra Leitmotif Outrun the Fireball Tempting Fate Big Applesauce Flashback Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Death Seeker Dwindling Party Call-Back Deal with the Devil Honor Before Reason N-Word Privileges Black Comedy Straight Gay Neck Snap Suspiciously Specific Denial Pre-Mortem One-Liner The '80s Stuff Blowing Up Brutal Honesty Interrupted Suicide Dying Moment of Awesome No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Up to Eleven The Chessmaster Killed Mid-Sentence Happily Married Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Villainous Breakdown I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The Brute Male Frontal Nudity Never Found the Body World of Ham Put on a Bus Love Triangle Creator Cameo Chase Scene Continuity Nod The Mafia Only One Name Skewed Priorities Informed Ability Ghost Fiction Demonic Possession Reality Ensues Poor Communication Kills Index of Film Westerns Disney Death No Celebrities Were Harmed It Can Think Hope Spot Fate Worse than Death She's Got Legs Domestic Abuse Disguised in Drag Shoot the Shaggy Dog Not So Different Gilligan Cut No Antagonist Almost Kiss Ms. Fanservice The Ghost The Stoner Evil Is Petty Mystery and Detective Films Let's Get Dangerous! 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Super Strength Tranquil Fury Bury Your Gays Hate Sink Action Girl Rape as Drama Depraved Bisexual Every Car Is a Pinto Badass in a Nice Suit B-Movie Unusual Euphemism Dramedy Country Matters Sassy Black Woman Genre Savvy Plucky Comic Relief Training Montage Show Within a Show Overprotective Dad Bound and Gagged The Mole The Great Depression Setting Update The Load Determinator aka: The Determinator Friend to All Children Bilingual Bonus An Aesop Fantastic Racism Freudian Excuse Cool Old Guy Sports Stories The Oner Love at First Sight Epic Fail Celebrity Paradox Red Eyes, Take Warning Reasonable Authority Figure Catch-Phrase Badass Bookworm Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Four-Temperament Ensemble Downer Ending Bloodless Carnage Big "NO!" 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Batman Gambit Broken Bird Posthumous Character Heel–Face Turn British Films Eureka Moment Morality Pet Shower Scene