Tropescilloscope: Very Loosely Based on a True Story

While based on true events, the story is heavily fictionalized from the real one. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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The Faceless Black Comedy Laser-Guided Karma Poor Communication Kills Evil Sounds Deep Gainax Ending Badass Normal Random Events Plot Skewed Priorities Fatal Family Photo Motor Mouth Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Cat Fight Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Male Gaze The Film of the Book The Dog Bites Back The Great Depression Corpsing Gory Discretion Shot Chase Scene Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Reality Ensues Anti-Villain Public Domain Feature Films Slap-Slap-Kiss Names to Run Away from Really Fast Arc Words Sadistic Choice Plucky Comic Relief Cool Car Let's Get Dangerous! Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Historical-Domain Character Taking the Bullet Composite Character Refuge in Audacity This Is Gonna Suck Pretty in Mink Dark Is Not Evil Deadpan Snarker The Sociopath Death of a Child Daddy's Girl Fourth Date Marriage Scenery Porn Fainting The Casanova Sequel Hook Easily Forgiven Slashed Throat Dropped a Bridge on Him Agony of the Feet The Ditz Line-of-Sight Name And the Adventure Continues Bald of Evil Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Anachronism Stew Bolivian Army Ending Book-Ends Film Noir Index Dumb Blonde folderlabel La Résistance Unusual Euphemism Awesome, but Impractical Setting Update Leitmotif Horror Comedy You Killed My Father Foreshadowing Unspoken Plan Guarantee Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Becoming the Mask The '80s Oh, Crap! Woman in White Demonic Possession The Stoic Death by Sex Chewing the Scenery Gorn Fantastic Racism Real Life Writes the Plot Needs Wiki Magic Love Apocalypse How Loads and Loads of Characters War Is Hell And I Must Scream Not Even Bothering with the Accent Bare Your Midriff Real Life Moment Killer Dissonant Serenity Fanservice Extra Advertised Extra Translation Convention Wretched Hive Mistaken for Gay Made of Explodium Big Bad Famous Last Words Accidental Misnaming B-Movie Wounded Gazelle Gambit Black Dude Dies First Death by Adaptation O.O.C. Is Serious Business Dirty Coward Kids Are Cruel The End... Or Is It? Guile Hero The Chick No OSHA Compliance Bloodier and Gorier Determinator Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Spared by the Adaptation Redemption Equals Death The Hero My God, What Have I Done? Mundane Made Awesome Ripped from the Headlines Revenge Manchild He Who Fights Monsters Too Dumb to Live The Bully Really Gets Around From Bad to Worse Our Vampires Are Different Due to the Dead Would Hit a Girl Dwindling Party No-Sell Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Mystery and Detective Films Taking You with Me Historical In-Joke Calling the Old Man Out Bad "Bad Acting" Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Fate Worse than Death Adaptation Distillation In Name Only Double-Meaning Title Anti-Hero Flipping the Bird Scare Chord Animal Title Index As Long as It Sounds Foreign I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Wham Shot Catapult Nightmare Twist Ending Super Strength Crucified Hero Shot Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Only One Name As the Good Book Says... Overly Long Gag Manic Pixie Dream Girl Determinator aka: The Determinator Visual Pun Loophole Abuse Never Found the Body Depraved Bisexual True Companions Off with His Head! 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Make It Look Like an Accident In Medias Res The Hero Dies Department of Redundancy Department The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Take That! Character Development Product Placement Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Zombie Stories Christmas Movies Index Left the Background Music On Adaptation Name Change Creator Cameo Vampire Fiction Blatant Lies Actually Pretty Funny Fingore Foregone Conclusion Accidental Murder Cassandra Truth The Cavalry Training Montage An Axe to Grind Ghost Fiction Psychological Thriller Blackmail Stealth Hi/Bye Bunny-Ears Lawyer The Reveal Costume Porn Grey and Gray Morality Noodle Incident Hoist by His Own Petard Drill Sergeant Nasty The Vamp Freudian Excuse Green-Eyed Monster Evil Is Petty The Smart Guy A.I. Is a Crapshoot Naked People Are Funny MacGuffin Re-Cut Big Fancy House Stuff Blowing Up Genre Shift Room Full of Crazy Death Seeker Get Out! 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Anyone Can Die Race Lift Hair-Trigger Temper Badass Boast Danny Peary Cult Movies List Fanservice Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Sole Survivor Bullying a Dragon Brick Joke The Cameo Guns Akimbo Your Head A-Splode Offscreen Moment of Awesome Psycho for Hire Red Shirt Batman Gambit Pay Evil unto Evil Did Not Get the Girl Ambiguously Gay Sports Stories The Quiet One Recycled IN SPACE! Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Irony Toplessness from the Back Bilingual Bonus Bottomless Magazines Improbable Weapon User Cruel and Unusual Death Punny Name Combat Pragmatist Insane Troll Logic Decoy Protagonist Evil Counterpart Smoking Is Cool Femme Fatale Sacrificial Lion Fun with Acronyms The Mole Self-Deprecation Jump Scare Cool Guns Big Brother Instinct Red Herring Hollywood Darkness All There in the Manual Call-Forward Dual Wielding Kubrick Stare Dirty Old Man Only a Flesh Wound Aluminum Christmas Trees Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Camera Abuse Star-Crossed Lovers N-Word Privileges Artistic License – History Defiant to the End Non-Indicative Name May–December Romance Manly Tears Eagleland Villainous Breakdown Children Are Innocent Bond Villain Stupidity What Happened to the Mouse? 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