Tropescilloscope: The Mole

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Rewatch Bonus No OSHA Compliance Non-Indicative Name Mugging the Monster The Chick Eye Scream The Mafia Fantasy Films Fingore Men Are the Expendable Gender He Knows Too Much Soft Glass Famous Last Words Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Only a Flesh Wound Nice Guy Meet Cute Needs Wiki Magic Love Line-of-Sight Name Getting Crap Past the Radar Improvised Weapon Blood from the Mouth Intergenerational Friendship Fiery Redhead Brick Joke Scare Chord Break the Cutie Would Hurt a Child Scenery Porn Rule of Cool Humans Are Bastards Big Fancy House Mr. Exposition Ripped from the Headlines Black and Gray Morality Parental Substitute Bond One-Liner Pay Evil unto Evil Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Determinator aka: The Determinator Horror Comedy As Long as It Sounds Foreign Anguished Declaration of Love Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Dramatic Irony Adaptational Attractiveness Translation Convention Tranquil Fury Chekhov's Skill Never My Fault Together in Death Not What It Looks Like Jerkass Has a Point True Companions The Film of the Book Vomit Discretion Shot Deconstruction Heroes Want Redheads Earn Your Happy Ending Cool Old Lady Five-Man Band Retirony Hollywood Darkness Male Frontal Nudity Dissonant Serenity Fourth Date Marriage Sealed Evil in a Can Historical Hero Upgrade Early Installment Weirdness All for Nothing Bottomless Magazines Romantic Comedy Card-Carrying Villain Deliberately Monochrome Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Madness Mantra In Name Only The Load Catch-Phrase Properly Paranoid It Can Think Insistent Terminology Historical-Domain Character Romantic False Lead Bloodless Carnage Really Gets Around Soundtrack Dissonance Bar Brawl N-Word Privileges Mind Screw Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Undying Loyalty Blonde, Brunette, Redhead La Résistance Mood Whiplash Obstructive Bureaucrat Award-Bait Song Mistaken for Gay Wicked Cultured The Stoner Heterosexual Life-Partners What the Hell, Hero? 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Shower Scene Eureka Moment Hell Is That Noise Those Wacky Nazis All Just a Dream Brother–Sister Incest The Hero Broken Pedestal Neck Lift Major Injury Underreaction Fun with Acronyms Last-Name Basis Only One Name Red Shirt Vomit Indiscretion Shot Fan Disservice Dwindling Party "The Reason You Suck" Speech An Axe to Grind Gender Flip Disappeared Dad The Lancer Biopic Red Right Hand Death Seeker Gone Horribly Right Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Italian Films Jump Scare Arc Words It's All About Me Spanner in the Works Expy Unspoken Plan Guarantee Serious Business Meaningful Background Event Setting Update The '90s Twist Ending Hate Sink Spiritual Successor Department of Redundancy Department Peek-a-Boo Corpse Spared by the Adaptation Psycho for Hire Plot Hole Arch-Enemy Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Stylistic Suck Crucified Hero Shot Bunny-Ears Lawyer Badass Boast Book-Ends Action Girl Room Full of Crazy Disguised in Drag Establishing Character Moment Shipper on Deck Parental Abandonment Not So Stoic Woman Scorned The Chessmaster Suspiciously Specific Denial Genre Shift Attempted Rape Hair-Trigger Temper Jerk with a Heart of Gold Totally Radical You Have Outlived Your Usefulness I Need a Freaking Drink Crazy-Prepared Evil Laugh Rasputinian Death Villainous Breakdown Alas, Poor Villain Ambiguous Ending Punch-Clock Villain Sequel Hook Kick the Son of a Bitch Motor Mouth Reality Ensues Shout-Out Empathic Environment British Films Pimped-Out Dress Intrepid Reporter Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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"Shaggy Dog" Story Bad Boss An Aesop Victoria's Secret Compartment The Place Action Genre Papa Wolf Extremely Short Timespan No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Fate Worse than Death Kick the Dog Bond Villain Stupidity Love Triangle Humiliation Conga Adorkable "Well Done, Son!" Guy Only Sane Man Knight Templar Daddy's Girl Dark Is Not Evil Older Than They Look Domestic Abuse Expository Hairstyle Change Cat Scare Chase Scene The End... Or Is It? Four-Temperament Ensemble folderlabel Sole Survivor I Have Your Wife Framing Device From Nobody to Nightmare Video Credits Only in It for the Money Adaptation Expansion Nice Hat Smug Snake Your Cheating Heart Sinister Minister The Faceless Slap-Slap-Kiss Retcon Black Dude Dies First Taking the Bullet Posthumous Character Country Matters Suddenly SHOUTING! Mexican Standoff Silent Movie Foregone Conclusion Animal Motifs Beware the Nice Ones Artistic License – Physics Anti-Villain Running Gag Curse Cut Short Guile Hero Arranged Marriage Dogged Nice Guy Cool Shades Took a Level in Badass Reasonable Authority Figure Russian Films Product Placement Spell My Name with an "S" Eldritch Abomination One Steve Limit Friend to All Children Lighter and Softer Thriller Deliberate Values Dissonance Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Big Brother Instinct Bilingual Bonus Not Even Bothering with the Accent Dark and Troubled Past Decoy Protagonist Adaptation Distillation Dual Wielding Aside Glance Danny Peary Cult Movies List Instant Death Bullet Re-Cut Match Cut My Greatest Failure Facial Horror The Sociopath Face Death with Dignity Dies Wide Open Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Fish out of Water Irony Artistic License – History Ghost Fiction Didn't Think This Through Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Death by Sex Evil Plan Gilligan Cut Japanese Films Fainting The Bad Guy Wins Affably Evil Fanservice Extra Extreme Doormat Badass Normal Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor The Alleged Car Death of a Child Red Eyes, Take Warning A Father to His Men Bloody Hilarious Improbable Aiming Skills As You Know Captain Obvious Hero Antagonist Closed Circle Race Against the Clock Evil Is Petty Public Domain Feature Films Broken Aesop Reality Has No Subtitles As the Good Book Says...