Tropescilloscope: The Dog Bites Back

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Insistent Terminology The Load Precision F-Strike Slashed Throat Black Comedy Handicapped Badass World of Ham Wicked Cultured Ghost Fiction Car Fu Due to the Dead Evil-Detecting Dog Obstructive Bureaucrat Expository Hairstyle Change Red Oni, Blue Oni No Antagonist Papa Wolf Pay Evil unto Evil Famous Last Words Intrepid Reporter Parental Substitute Asshole Victim O.O.C. Is Serious Business The Oner Take That! Danny Peary Cult Movies List The Chick Scare Chord Truth in Television Adapted Out Intergenerational Friendship Contrived Coincidence The '80s Title Drop Badass Normal Dutch Angle Agony of the Feet After the End The Atoner The Bully Break the Cutie NO INDOOR VOICE Biopic Anguished Declaration of Love Non-Indicative Name Betty and Veronica Attempted Rape Black Dude Dies First Real Life Fatal Family Photo Madness Mantra Broken Aesop Malevolent Masked Men No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Sanity Slippage Documentary Humans Are Bastards Based on a True Story Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Hooker with a Heart of Gold Combat Pragmatist Decoy Protagonist It Can Think Chekhov's Skill Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Getting Crap Past the Radar Peek-a-Boo Corpse One Steve Limit Japanese Films Male Frontal Nudity Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Idiot Ball Cassandra Truth Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Overprotective Dad I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Amoral Attorney Mind Screw The Film of the Book The X of Y Expy Five-Man Band Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Artistic License – Geography Shown Their Work Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Paper-Thin Disguise Same Language Dub Woman in White Call-Back Catch-Phrase Brick Joke Red Right Hand Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Suspiciously Specific Denial Love Triangle Grey and Gray Morality Fate Worse than Death Dissonant Serenity Too Dumb to Live Instant Death Bullet Comically Missing the Point Captain Ersatz Random Events Plot Hidden Depths I Have Your Wife Hollywood Law The Ditz It Will Never Catch On You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Police are Useless Chuck Cunningham Syndrome What the Hell, Hero? Gorn Works Set in World War II Irony Wounded Gazelle Gambit Those Two Bad Guys Pimped-Out Dress Antagonist Title Canadian Movies Revenge Creative Closing Credits The Casanova Pyrrhic Victory Drives Like Crazy Artistic License – Biology Psychopathic Manchild Faux Affably Evil As Long as It Sounds Foreign Cool Shades All Men Are Perverts Up to Eleven Woman Scorned Bar Brawl A.I. Is a Crapshoot Double-Meaning Title The Starscream The Alleged Car Hollywood Darkness Romantic False Lead Retired Badass Hypocritical Humor Back from the Dead Death Seeker Sacrificial Lion Throwing Your Sword Always Works Setting Update Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy folderlabel Imagine Spot Black Best Friend Rule of Funny The Cavalry Crazy Jealous Guy Adult Fear Action Prologue Product Placement The Place Apocalypse How Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Accidental Misnaming Badass Bookworm Self-Deprecation Laughing Mad Meaningful Echo Breaking the Fourth Wall Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Bi the Way Film Noir Index Took a Level in Jerkass Slap-Slap-Kiss Lampshade Hanging Air-Vent Passageway Fire-Forged Friends Blackmail Mighty Whitey Manipulative Bastard Cloudcuckoolander Love at First Sight Take a Third Option Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Author Appeal Developing Doomed Characters Race Lift Parental Incest Authority Equals Asskicking Funny Foreigner Distracted by the Sexy Plucky Comic Relief Line-of-Sight Name Mercy Kill Broken Pedestal Camera Abuse Video Credits Advertised Extra Disney Villain Death Big Brother Instinct Soft Glass Mystery and Detective Films Silent Movie Not What It Looks Like How We Got Here Homage Only in It for the Money Crucified Hero Shot Offscreen Moment of Awesome Fanservice Extra He Who Fights Monsters Stylistic Suck You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Lock and Load Montage Maybe Ever After Extreme Doormat Insane Troll Logic Cold-Blooded Torture Chase Scene Groin Attack Hell Is That Noise Ambiguous Ending Foregone Conclusion Age Lift Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Aluminum Christmas Trees Curse Cut Short Creepy Child Faking the Dead Naked People Are Funny Large Ham Gone Horribly Right Red Shirt Berserk Button Blood from the Mouth Abhorrent Admirer Shipper on Deck Spiteful Spit The Stoner Animated Credits Opening The Smurfette Principle Bring My Brown Pants Actor Allusion Motor Mouth Fourth Date Marriage Death by Irony Central Theme "The Reason You Suck" Speech This Is Gonna Suck Took a Level in Badass Mooks My Greatest Failure Translation Convention Eagleland Shirtless Scene The Cameo Easily Forgiven Nice Hat Corpsing Villain Opening Scene Mundane Made Awesome Visual Pun Rape as Drama Match Cut It's All About Me Novelization The '60s I Did What I Had to Do War Is Hell Loads and Loads of Characters Fan Disservice Made of Explodium Big-Bad Ensemble Dark and Troubled Past Happily Married Tempting Fate I'm a Humanitarian Whole Plot Reference Gratuitous English Mr. Fanservice '80s Hair Cool Guns Deliberate Values Dissonance Stepford Smiler Make It Look Like an Accident Jerkass Fiery Redhead As Himself Nice Guy Stuff Blowing Up Wrong Genre Savvy Sinister Minister Fanservice Demoted to Extra Shower Scene Recycled IN SPACE! Major Injury Underreaction Scenery Porn Male Gaze Cat Fight Sole Survivor Villain Protagonist Bald of Evil Suspiciously Similar Substitute Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Ambiguous Disorder The Alcoholic Dressing as the Enemy Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Almost Kiss Villain Ball Jitter Cam Depraved Bisexual Drill Sergeant Nasty Dirty Old Man Genre Throwback N-Word Privileges Those Wacky Nazis Shoot the Shaggy Dog Morality Pet Amusing Injuries Music Stories Belligerent Sexual Tension Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Film Noir The Remake Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Bunny-Ears Lawyer Wretched Hive Real Life Writes the Plot Red Eyes, Take Warning No-Sell Say My Name Adaptation Expansion Monumental Damage Jerk Jock Karmic Death Defrosting Ice Queen Bullying a Dragon Big Bad Duumvirate Dying Moment of Awesome Fantasy Films Kick the Son of a Bitch Poor Communication Kills The Reveal Mythology Gag Chekhov's Gunman A Minor Kidroduction Ominous Latin Chanting MacGuffin Pre-Mortem One-Liner Interrupted Suicide She Cleans Up Nicely Unreliable Narrator The Brute The End... Or Is It? Heroic BSoD Horror Comedy Public Domain Feature Films Flashback Meaningful Name Psychological Thriller Friend to All Children May–December Romance Batman Gambit Guns Akimbo Disney Death Hypocrite Brutal Honesty Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Needs Wiki Magic Love Good Is Not Nice Guile Hero Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer In the Back Improbable Aiming Skills The Chessmaster Deconstruction From Bad to Worse Neck Lift Action Girl Evil Plan Politically Incorrect Villain Fainting BFG Rousing Speech Police Brutality No Celebrities Were Harmed Defiant to the End Evil Is Petty Those Two Guys Honor Before Reason Gory Discretion Shot Babies Ever After Mugging the Monster Bottomless Magazines The Un-Reveal Zombie Stories Epic Movie Immune to Bullets Death by Adaptation Cruel and Unusual Death Would Hurt a Child All There in the Script Affectionate Parody Serial Killer Villain with Good Publicity Refuge in Audacity Destination Defenestration Hoist by His Own Petard Mistaken for Gay Artistic License – Law Kick the Dog Training Montage Star-Crossed Lovers Hero of Another Story Television Movie Index Married to the Job Greater-Scope Villain Yandere The Dragon Jump Scare Catapult Nightmare Punny Name Genre Shift Armor-Piercing Question Leave the Camera Running Your Head A-Splode Shout-Out Beard of Evil Historical In-Joke Naïve Newcomer Outrun the Fireball Book-Ends Fingore Stealth Pun Re-Cut My God, What Have I Done? Silence Is Golden Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Pretty Little Headshots Blatant Lies Film Series Fat Bastard Ironic Echo Ripped from the Headlines Bond One-Liner Dark Is Not Evil Gender Flip Token Minority Insult Backfire Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Chewing the Scenery Credits Gag Big Fancy House Sir Swears-a-Lot Fantastic Racism Important Haircut Everyone Has Standards Rated M for Manly Eldritch Abomination Improvised Weapon Straight Gay Kids Are Cruel Dirty Cop Dramatic Irony What You Are in the Dark Scenery Gorn Sadistic Choice He Knows Too Much All for Nothing Aside Glance My Beloved Smother Historical-Domain Character Artistic License – Gun Safety Heterosexual Life-Partners Author Avatar Badass Grandpa One-Word Title Martial Arts Movie Suddenly SHOUTING! Deus ex Machina Plot Hole Last-Name Basis Big Applesauce Adaptational Villainy Character Development Unusual Euphemism Anachronism Stew Only a Flesh Wound Humiliation Conga More Dakka Bad Boss B-Movie Alas, Poor Villain Coming-of-Age Story Arc Words Rule of Symbolism Dull Surprise Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Unresolved Sexual Tension Heel–Face Turn Historical Villain Upgrade Darkest Hour Becoming the Mask Death Glare In Medias Res Science Fiction Films All Girls Want Bad Boys Never My Fault The Faceless Artistic License – Military Killed Mid-Sentence Badass Boast Tranquil Fury Storming the Castle Action Genre Never Trust a Trailer Fatal Flaw Big Bad Nothing Is Scarier Animal Motifs Closed Circle Only One Name Gainax Ending Arch-Enemy Leitmotif Hope Spot Heroes Want Redheads Artistic License – History Fake Shemp Break the Haughty Facial Horror Leaning on the Fourth Wall Mr. Exposition Vampire Fiction Adults Are Useless Downer Ending Anti-Villain Disguised in Drag The Voiceless The Hero Daylight Horror Rule of Cool Big Eater Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Knight Templar "Shaggy Dog" Story Big Damn Heroes The Stinger Awesome, but Impractical Offscreen Teleportation The Mole Slasher Movie Costume Porn Conspicuous CG A God Am I Heroic Sacrifice Moment Killer The Vamp Evil Laugh Eureka Moment Skewed Priorities Christmas Movies Index Playing Gertrude Once More, with Clarity! Evil Is Hammy Properly Paranoid Sports Stories Stealth Hi/Bye Stalker with a Crush Romantic Comedy Sequel Hook Have a Gay Old Time Bond Villain Stupidity Early Installment Weirdness Green-Eyed Monster Dogged Nice Guy Together in Death Thriller Didn't Think This Through Does This Remind You of Anything? Spiritual Successor Protagonist Title Eye Scream Villainous Breakdown Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Musical Department of Redundancy Department Not Using the "Z" Word And the Adventure Continues Bad "Bad Acting" Curb-Stomp Battle Bowdlerise Creator Cameo Tap on the Head Dirty Coward Beware the Nice Ones Every Car Is a Pinto The Lancer Annoying Younger Sibling Dropped a Bridge on Him Made of Iron Rich Bitch Ascended Extra 20 Minutes into the Future Rule of Three Fish out of Water Taking the Bullet Blood Knight Neck Snap Really Gets Around There Is No Kill Like Overkill Brainless Beauty Affably Evil Does Not Like Shoes Loophole Abuse Anyone Can Die Sassy Black Woman Men Are the Expendable Gender Obviously Evil No OSHA Compliance Dark Reprise Badass Longcoat Death by Sex Soundtrack Dissonance Mexican Standoff Demonic Possession Bury Your Gays Hong Kong Films Only Sane Man Reality Ensues Even Evil Has Loved Ones Beta Couple Adaptational Attractiveness Gold Digger Wham Line Corrupt Corporate Executive Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Toplessness from the Back Evil Sounds Deep Superhero Cool Old Guy Vacation Films Bolivian Army Ending Noodle Incident Bound and Gagged I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Sci-Fi Horror Heel Realization Trailers Always Spoil One-Man Army Very Loosely Based on a True Story Twist Ending Vitriolic Best Buds Word of God Time Skip Deliberately Monochrome An Aesop The Hero Dies Freudian Excuse Body Horror Abusive Parents Karma Houdini Unwitting Instigator of Doom Jerkass Has a Point What Happened to the Mouse? Scary Black Man Not Quite Dead Reasonable Authority Figure The Dreaded Dwindling Party Let's Get Dangerous! Evil vs. Evil Riddle for the Ages Wham Shot "Awesome McCool" Name Worthy Opponent Missing Mom Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Sexy Discretion Shot Driven to Suicide Continuity Nod Extremely Short Timespan The Power of Love Our Zombies Are Different Meet Cute The '70s Casting Gag Running Gag Bare Your Midriff Auto Erotica Retcon The Ace Be Careful What You Wish For Actually Pretty Funny Reality Is Unrealistic You Killed My Father Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Cluster F-Bomb The Big Guy Chekhov's Gun Camp Gay Dramatic Gun Cock Older Than They Look Even Evil Has Standards No-Holds-Barred Beatdown "Well Done, Son!" Guy Not So Different Dies Wide Open Establishing Character Moment British Films All There in the Manual Here We Go Again! Foil A Father to His Men Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Bad Guy Wins Double Entendre Well-Intentioned Extremist Russian Films Punch-Clock Villain Early-Bird Cameo Lighter and Softer A Date with Rosie Palms Crapsack World Arranged Marriage Parental Neglect Dumb Blonde Anti-Hero The Smart Guy Femme Fatale Anachronic Order Off with His Head! Alpha Bitch Frame-Up Badass in a Nice Suit Undying Loyalty Red Herring Hate Sink And Starring Put on a Bus Improbable Weapon User The Ghost Bloodless Carnage Captain Obvious Epic Fail Enemy Mine Taking You with Me Adaptation Distillation Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? For Want of a Nail Light Is Not Good Diabolus ex Machina Chiaroscuro Big "NO!" Dual Wielding Serious Business Cool Old Lady Bittersweet Ending Evil Counterpart In Name Only Manly Tears Bavarian Fire Drill Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil As the Good Book Says... Index of Film Westerns Oh, Crap! Face Death with Dignity Super Strength Get Out! Jerk with a Heart of Gold Beauty Is Never Tarnished Names to Run Away from Really Fast The Sociopath Better to Die than Be Killed Calling the Old Man Out And I Must Scream Daddy's Girl Show Within a Show Mad Scientist Stock Footage Disappeared Dad Adaptation Name Change Country Matters Four-Temperament Ensemble Henpecked Husband timeperiod No Ending Posthumous Character Dramedy Redshirt Army Eiffel Tower Effect Half the Man He Used to Be Adaptation Dye-Job Smoking Is Cool Action Survivor "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue I Need a Freaking Drink The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Funny Background Event Bait-and-Switch The Quiet One Freeze-Frame Bonus Hair-Trigger Temper Totally Radical The Stoic You Have Failed Me Final Girl Pragmatic Adaptation Black Comedy Rape She's Got Legs Slasher Smile Cool Car Empathic Environment Pretty in Mink From Nobody to Nightmare Only Known by Their Nickname Bloodier and Gorier Off-into-the-Distance Ending Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Sequel Escalation For the Evulz Determinator Not So Stoic The '50s The Great Depression Mood Whiplash Did Not Get the Girl Retirony Reckless Gun Usage Earn Your Happy Ending Narrator As You Know Kubrick Stare Adorkable Exact Words True Companions No Name Given Hero Antagonist Kill It with Fire Fun with Acronyms Deal with the Devil Kill 'em All Logo Joke Drugs Are Bad French Films Italian Films Alliterative Name The '90s The Mafia Framing Device Sealed Evil in a Can Genre Savvy Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Damsel in Distress Would Hit a Girl Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Horror Films Pragmatic Villainy Roaring Rampage of Revenge Evil Brit Ambiguously Gay Death of a Child All Just a Dream Composite Character Darker and Edgier Cain and Abel Crazy-Prepared La Résistance Adaptational Badass Bland-Name Product Celebrity Paradox Overly Long Gag