Tropescilloscope: Trailers Always Spoil

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