Tropescilloscope: The Quiet One

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