Tropescilloscope: The Power of Love

Love conquers all. Literally. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Is a Crapshoot The Chick Decoy Protagonist No Celebrities Were Harmed In the Back Gold Digger Large Ham Overly Long Gag Double-Meaning Title Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Book-Ends No OSHA Compliance Artistic License – Biology All There in the Manual Darker and Edgier Made of Iron Madness Mantra Mythology Gag Animal Motifs Asshole Victim Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Car Fu Babies Ever After Becoming the Mask Improbable Aiming Skills Narrator Lighter and Softer Determinator Aluminum Christmas Trees Television Movie Index Bad Boss Male Frontal Nudity Very Loosely Based on a True Story Plot Hole Leitmotif In Medias Res Sinister Minister Chekhov's Skill Shower Scene Laser-Guided Karma A Father to His Men She's Got Legs Market-Based Title Genre Shift Let's Get Dangerous! Genre Savvy The Reveal The Hero Animated Credits Opening Funny Background Event Manchild Race Lift Failed a Spot Check Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Real Life Writes the Plot Alpha Bitch Insane Troll Logic Ambiguous Disorder Kill 'em All Faking the Dead Biopic Bad "Bad Acting" Mistaken for Gay Only in It for the Money Sci-Fi Horror Bloody Hilarious Sanity Slippage Rasputinian Death Spanner in the Works And Starring In Name Only Politically Incorrect Villain What Happened to the Mouse? Straight Gay Determinator aka: The Determinator Broken Aesop Green-Eyed Monster Establishing Character Moment Cassandra Truth Ironic Echo Cold-Blooded Torture Armor-Piercing Question Fish out of Water Cool Old Lady Black Dude Dies First Gory Discretion Shot Call-Back Taking You with Me Dwindling Party Adaptation Dye-Job