Tropescilloscope: Vitriolic Best Buds

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Attempted Rape Shown Their Work Fat Bastard Genre Shift He Who Fights Monsters Corrupt Corporate Executive Those Two Bad Guys Fate Worse than Death The Hero Honor Before Reason Manipulative Bastard Martial Arts Movie Every Car Is a Pinto Last-Name Basis Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Crapsack World Arranged Marriage Expy Combat Pragmatist No Name Given Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Took a Level in Badass Reckless Gun Usage No Celebrities Were Harmed Faking the Dead Bilingual Bonus Toplessness from the Back Not Even Bothering with the Accent Dirty Cop The Remake Soundtrack Dissonance Works Set in World War II Exactly What It Says on the Tin The Reveal Tranquil Fury Extremely Short Timespan Bare Your Midriff Wicked Cultured Advertised Extra Diabolus ex Machina Stealth Hi/Bye Cluster F-Bomb One-Word Title Hong Kong Films Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Match Cut Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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The Dog Bites Back All for Nothing Science Fiction Films Badass in a Nice Suit Bottomless Magazines Red Shirt The '80s Evil Counterpart Mood Whiplash Bowdlerise Action Prologue Market-Based Title Guns Akimbo Important Haircut Kick the Son of a Bitch I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Even Evil Has Standards Ambiguous Disorder Stuff Blowing Up Psychological Thriller The Film of the Book Genre Savvy Coming-of-Age Story Suspiciously Similar Substitute Christmas Movies Index After the End Refuge in Audacity NO INDOOR VOICE Dramedy Motor Mouth Sinister Minister No-Sell Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Adaptational Heroism Creator Cameo Dark Is Not Evil Mind Screw The Quiet One Red Eyes, Take Warning Artistic License – Geography Creepy Child Evil Is Hammy Black Best Friend Dark and Troubled Past Big Brother Instinct Make It Look Like an Accident Our Vampires Are Different Fatal Flaw Historical In-Joke Heel Realization Heroic Sacrifice The '60s Distracted by the Sexy Butt-Monkey Even Evil Has Loved Ones Ambiguous Ending Adults Are Useless Unspoken Plan Guarantee Vampire Fiction Rule of Cool Deliberately Monochrome The Un-Reveal In Name Only Darkest Hour Bland-Name Product Non-Indicative Name Eagleland Dropped a Bridge on Him Fingore Title Drop Tagline Insistent Terminology Artistic License – Physics Woman in White Unreliable Narrator Straight Gay Bad "Bad Acting" Off with His Head! 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Is a Crapshoot Daddy's Girl Redemption Equals Death Dying Moment of Awesome Pimped-Out Dress Due to the Dead Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Token Minority The Ace Loads and Loads of Characters Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Hell Is That Noise Super Strength Pretty in Mink Big Bad Duumvirate Russian Films Fire-Forged Friends Mooks Karma Houdini Defiant to the End Japanese Films The Vamp Roaring Rampage of Revenge Evil Plan Narrator Dirty Coward Slap-Slap-Kiss Retirony Rule of Funny Dogged Nice Guy Throwing Your Sword Always Works Canon Foreigner Badass Boast Five-Man Band Sci-Fi Horror Revenge Sacrificial Lion My Greatest Failure Green-Eyed Monster The Casanova Peek-a-Boo Corpse Insane Troll Logic Celebrity Paradox Genre Throwback Funny Background Event Extreme Doormat Affectionate Parody Vomit Discretion Shot Adaptation Dye-Job Word of God Ripped from the Headlines Double Entendre Happily Married Stealth Pun Really Gets Around Love at First Sight Evil Laugh What Happened to the Mouse? Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Covers Always Lie Boom, Headshot! 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Foreshadowing Skewed Priorities What the Hell, Hero? Hoist by His Own Petard Made of Explodium Heel–Face Turn Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Villain Protagonist Does Not Like Shoes '80s Hair Age Lift Only in It for the Money Cloudcuckoolander Ship Tease Dual Wielding Hooker with a Heart of Gold La Résistance "The Reason You Suck" Speech The Lost Lenore Madness Mantra Interrupted Suicide Animated Credits Opening Wretched Hive Everyone Has Standards Belligerent Sexual Tension Dull Surprise Bond One-Liner Take That! Hypocritical Humor Parental Substitute Hypocrite Agony of the Feet Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Trailers Always Spoil The Musical Film Noir Red Oni, Blue Oni Time Skip Eye Scream Papa Wolf Cain and Abel Domestic Abuse Offscreen Teleportation And the Adventure Continues Punctuated! For! 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