Tropescilloscope: Tranquil Fury

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