Tropescilloscope: There Is No Kill Like Overkill

Extreme excessive eradication. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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They Really Do Love Each Other Public Domain Feature Films Took a Level in Jerkass Reality Ensues Together in Death Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Punch-Clock Villain Hair-Trigger Temper Stylistic Suck Bland-Name Product Curse Cut Short Artistic License – Law In Medias Res Obfuscating Stupidity Shirtless Scene Plot Hole An Arm and a Leg Lampshade Hanging Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Bloody Hilarious Male Gaze Would Hurt a Child The Casanova Flashback Composite Character Bullying a Dragon Not Quite Dead May–December Romance Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Better to Die than Be Killed Rated M for Manly Call-Forward Naked People Are Funny Downer Ending Hope Spot Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Beauty Is Never Tarnished Psychopathic Manchild All There in the Manual Eldritch Abomination Mexican Standoff The Faceless Catapult Nightmare Adaptation Expansion Fat Bastard Loophole Abuse Rousing Speech Credits Gag Match Cut One Steve Limit I'm a Humanitarian He Knows Too Much Hypocrite Shut Up, Hannibal! Suspiciously Similar Substitute Badass Bookworm Super Strength Gold Digger Twist Ending Affectionate Parody The Mole Big Applesauce Amoral Attorney Insane Troll Logic Creator Cameo Leave the Camera Running Manipulative Bastard Rule of Funny Ambiguously Gay The Starscream Pragmatic Adaptation Captain Obvious The Oner Papa Wolf You Killed My Father Show Within a Show A God Am I Due to the Dead Curb-Stomp Battle Daddy's Girl Arranged Marriage Card-Carrying Villain Body Horror Narrator After the End Pimped-Out Dress The Vamp Becoming the Mask How We Got Here Faking the Dead Disney Death The Remake Major Injury Underreaction The Smart Guy Be Careful What You Wish For Face Death with Dignity Gainax Ending Smug Snake Framing Device Silence Is Golden Hollywood Law Peek-a-Boo Corpse Genre Shift Time Skip Last-Name Basis From Bad to Worse Dutch Angle Badass Grandpa Those Wacky Nazis Took a Level in Badass Married to the Job Daylight Horror Reckless Gun Usage Redemption Equals Death Dwindling Party Have a Gay Old Time All Girls Want Bad Boys Needs Wiki Magic Love Parental Abandonment Storming the Castle Names to Run Away from Really Fast Anguished Declaration of Love Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Badass Boast Humans Are Bastards Setting Update Made of Iron Bilingual Bonus Unusual Euphemism I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Darker and Edgier A.I. Is a Crapshoot Big Bad Duumvirate As Himself Dual Wielding As the Good Book Says... Disappeared Dad World of Ham "Where Are They Now?" 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Is Serious Business Chewing the Scenery The Bad Guy Wins Pragmatic Villainy Determinator aka: The Determinator Never Found the Body Bring My Brown Pants Bunny-Ears Lawyer Ungrateful Bastard Heterosexual Life-Partners Retirony Evil vs. Evil Say My Name Anachronic Order The Ace Psycho for Hire Green-Eyed Monster Exact Words Jerkass Re-Cut Defrosting Ice Queen Book-Ends Vitriolic Best Buds The Un-Reveal Actor Allusion Abhorrent Admirer Does Not Like Shoes The Musical Line-of-Sight Name Red Herring Stealth Pun Extreme Doormat Death of a Child Undying Loyalty Male Frontal Nudity Guns Akimbo Casting Gag It Can Think The Power of Love Mugging the Monster Air-Vent Passageway Product Placement Italian Films Only in It for the Money Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Hoist by His Own Petard Taking You with Me The Load Failed a Spot Check Chuck Cunningham Syndrome More Dakka Dirty Coward You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Dramatic Irony Dissonant Serenity Alas, Poor Villain Heroic BSoD Politically Incorrect Villain The Chessmaster Offscreen Teleportation Captain Ersatz Bloodless Carnage Handicapped Badass Unspoken Plan Guarantee Retired Badass Every Car Is a Pinto Freudian Excuse Unresolved Sexual Tension Star-Crossed Lovers Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Maybe Ever After timeperiod Up to Eleven Brick Joke What the Hell, Hero? "The Reason You Suck" Speech Badass Longcoat Dull Surprise Kubrick Stare Scare Chord It's All About Me Sacrificial Lion Take a Third Option Ominous Latin Chanting Flipping the Bird Villain Song Antagonist Title Expy Dirty Cop Affably Evil Fake Shemp Not Even Bothering with the Accent Big Eater Even Evil Has Standards Unusually Uninteresting Sight Malevolent Masked Men Overprotective Dad Mundane Made Awesome Index of Film Westerns Central Theme Heroes Want Redheads Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique As Long as It Sounds Foreign Drugs Are Bad Pre-Mortem One-Liner Only Known by Their Nickname Break the Cutie Silent Movie The X of Y No OSHA Compliance Not What It Looks Like Cloudcuckoolander Kill It with Fire Despair Event Horizon Based on a True Story Bait-and-Switch Dressing as the Enemy Hidden Depths One-Word Title An Aesop Trailers Always Spoil Big Bad Leaning on the Fourth Wall Logo Joke Adaptational Badass Never Trust a Trailer In the Back The Dreaded Artistic License – History The Cameo Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Dropped a Bridge on Him Mooks Totally Radical Wrong Genre Savvy Funny Foreigner Romantic Comedy Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Bi the Way In Name Only Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor The Lancer Department of Redundancy Department No-Sell Sequel Escalation Adult Fear Author Appeal Idiot Ball Fire-Forged Friends Bottomless Magazines Crucified Hero Shot She's Got Legs Back from the Dead The Atoner Recycled IN SPACE! Works Set in World War II Skewed Priorities German Films Men Are the Expendable Gender Ax-Crazy Animal Motifs My God, What Have I Done? Precision F-Strike Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Country Matters Depraved Bisexual Foregone Conclusion Pet the Dog Jerk with a Heart of Gold Retcon Red Right Hand Adaptation Dye-Job Love at First Sight Authority Equals Asskicking Epic Fail Artistic License – Gun Safety A Date with Rosie Palms Face–Heel Turn The Hero All There in the Script Obviously Evil Dark Reprise Romantic False Lead Your Head A-Splode Fantastic Racism Thriller Crazy-Prepared