Tropescilloscope: Took a Level in Badass

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Fan Disservice Failed a Spot Check Cat Fight Heterosexual Life-Partners Soundtrack Dissonance The Cameo Reckless Gun Usage Papa Wolf Love Triangle Animated Credits Opening Fatal Family Photo N-Word Privileges The Vamp Rule of Funny Extremely Short Timespan Jerkass Gainax Ending Superhero Cain and Abel Fantastic Racism Determinator aka: The Determinator Affably Evil Villain Opening Scene Scenery Gorn Bullying a Dragon Pyrrhic Victory Military and Warfare Films Black Dude Dies First Mythology Gag Japanese Films Not So Stoic Bottomless Magazines The Lost Lenore Line-of-Sight Name Diabolus ex Machina Arch-Enemy Retired Badass Chekhov's Gun Authority Equals Asskicking Parental Abandonment Bring My Brown Pants Mistaken for Gay I Need a Freaking Drink Foregone Conclusion Evil Is Petty Bland-Name Product Noodle Incident Sequel Hook Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane For the Evulz Curse Cut Short Beard of Evil Arc Words Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Make It Look Like an Accident Horror Comedy Tagline It Will Never Catch On Death by Adaptation Downer Ending Works Set in World War II The Sociopath Chiaroscuro Same Language Dub Artistic License – History Big Bad Duumvirate Ambiguously Gay Interrupted Suicide I Did What I Had to Do True Companions Red Herring Bare Your Midriff Wham Shot Pragmatic Villainy Time Skip Homage Book-Ends Black Comedy Red Oni, Blue Oni Not Even Bothering with the Accent Older Than They Look Early-Bird Cameo Chewing the Scenery Eureka Moment Wicked Cultured Death by Irony The Alleged Car Danny Peary Cult Movies List Adaptation Distillation No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Sexy Discretion Shot Black and Gray Morality Fatal Flaw Framing Device Improbable Weapon User The Oner Closed Circle Bad "Bad Acting" No Antagonist Mundane Made Awesome Riddle for the Ages Crazy Jealous Guy Knight Templar The Film of the Book Narrator Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Fake Shemp Age Lift Shout-Out Rasputinian Death Show Within a Show Death Glare The Ace You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Breaking the Fourth Wall Killed Mid-Sentence Jitter Cam Your Head A-Splode Manchild The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Distracted by the Sexy Boom, Headshot! 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Epilogue Humiliation Conga Epic Fail Morality Pet Trailers Always Spoil Better to Die than Be Killed Rule of Three Not So Different Taking You with Me Dying Moment of Awesome Shirtless Scene Deus ex Machina Once More, with Clarity! Unreliable Narrator Face–Heel Turn Sequel Escalation Serious Business Cool Guns Every Car Is a Pinto Bloodless Carnage Obviously Evil Historical-Domain Character My Greatest Failure Adapted Out Central Theme The Starscream Whole Plot Reference Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Mind Screw "Well Done, Son!" 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From Bad to Worse Tap on the Head Rewatch Bonus Title Drop Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Cool Shades Visual Pun Novelization Dies Wide Open Hong Kong Films MacGuffin Fire-Forged Friends Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Badass Longcoat Obstructive Bureaucrat Martial Arts Movie Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Animal Motifs Villain Song Becoming the Mask Friend to All Children Red Shirt As You Know Big Bad Race Against the Clock Nice Hat The End... Or Is It? Amoral Attorney Half the Man He Used to Be Skewed Priorities My Beloved Smother Villain with Good Publicity The Reveal Throwing Your Sword Always Works Dark Reprise Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Darker and Edgier Insane Troll Logic Dropped a Bridge on Him Badass Grandpa Kick the Son of a Bitch Fiery Redhead Leave the Camera Running