Tropescilloscope: Too Dumb to Live

Life-threatening stupidity. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Nothing Is Scarier Big-Bad Ensemble Dies Wide Open Revenge Crazy-Prepared Monumental Damage Improbable Aiming Skills No Ending Bottomless Magazines Heel–Face Turn In Medias Res Good Is Not Nice All Just a Dream Gender Flip The Musical Costume Porn Woman Scorned Beta Couple Reasonable Authority Figure Off with His Head! N-Word Privileges Your Cheating Heart Children Are Innocent Off-into-the-Distance Ending Dull Surprise Insult Backfire Taking You with Me Mind Screw Almost Kiss Cassandra Truth Vitriolic Best Buds Gainax Ending Badass Longcoat Rape as Drama Wham Line World of Ham Neck Snap Bloodier and Gorier Bullying a Dragon Cool Shades Totally Radical The Load Guile Hero Parental Neglect Decoy Protagonist Imagine Spot Affably Evil Bring My Brown Pants Meaningful Name The Power of Love Chekhov's Gun Combat Pragmatist You Have Failed Me Fish out of Water Tranquil Fury Insane Troll Logic Disguised in Drag Danny Peary Cult Movies List Broken Bird Facial Horror Eye Scream The Lost Lenore Those Two Guys Bait-and-Switch One Steve Limit Shirtless Scene Groin Attack Adaptational Villainy Berserk Button Bloodless Carnage The Stoic Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Vomit Discretion Shot Heroes Want Redheads Italian Films Fat Bastard Sanity Slippage Gratuitous English Early Installment Weirdness Book-Ends Manchild Jitter Cam Red Right Hand Wicked Cultured Skewed Priorities B-Movie As the Good Book Says... 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Is Serious Business Expy Leave the Camera Running Film Noir Index Artistic License – Geography Big Bad Novelization Rewatch Bonus Animated Credits Opening Animal Motifs Bolivian Army Ending The Starscream Cat Fight Fatal Flaw Honor Before Reason The Alcoholic Naïve Newcomer Country Matters All There in the Script The Alleged Car Driven to Suicide From Nobody to Nightmare Older Than They Look Romantic False Lead Important Haircut Soft Glass Green-Eyed Monster Let's Get Dangerous! 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Not So Different Epic Fail Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Attempted Rape Sequel Escalation Rated M for Manly Adaptation Distillation Foregone Conclusion Femme Fatale "Awesome McCool" Name Punny Name Affectionate Parody What You Are in the Dark Immune to Bullets Line-of-Sight Name Disappeared Dad Calling the Old Man Out Video Credits Spiritual Successor Depraved Bisexual Say My Name Redshirt Army Bland-Name Product Death by Sex Antagonist Title Adaptational Badass Breaking the Fourth Wall Sequel Hook Fantastic Racism Cold-Blooded Torture No-Sell The '80s Mugging the Monster Establishing Character Moment Mr. Exposition Foil Serious Business Face–Heel Turn The Un-Reveal Artistic License – Biology Hidden Depths Faux Affably Evil Vacation Films Beard of Evil Killed Mid-Sentence Butt-Monkey Darker and Edgier Cat Scare Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Conspicuous CG The Big Guy Rich Bitch The Stoner Blatant Lies Left the Background Music On Bond One-Liner Coming-of-Age Story Mighty Whitey Lock and Load Montage Large Ham I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Leaning on the Fourth Wall Noodle Incident Bad Boss Artistic License – Military As Himself Contrived Coincidence Failed a Spot Check Drowning My Sorrows Unresolved Sexual Tension Genre Shift Corpsing Four-Temperament Ensemble Earn Your Happy Ending Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! And I Must Scream Big Bad Duumvirate Sports Stories Psychopathic Manchild A Minor Kidroduction Our Zombies Are Different The Ghost Actually Pretty Funny Break the Cutie The Bad Guy Wins Reality Is Unrealistic Alpha Bitch Red Oni, Blue Oni Despair Event Horizon Blood from the Mouth Corrupt Corporate Executive Pretty Little Headshots From Bad to Worse Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Pimped-Out Dress Sci-Fi Horror Brutal Honesty Scenery Porn True Companions Not So Stoic The Bully Ambiguous Disorder Motor Mouth '80s Hair Evil Counterpart The Ace Back from the Dead timeperiod Token Minority Adaptation Expansion Cool Car Mooks Running Gag Shoot the Shaggy Dog Translation Convention This Is Gonna Suck Reality Has No Subtitles Papa Wolf Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Dual Wielding Dropped a Bridge on Him Take a Third Option No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Needs Wiki Magic Love Adaptational Attractiveness Hollywood Law Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Real Life The X of Y