Tropescilloscope: Tranquil Fury

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