Tropescilloscope: "Well Done, Son!" Guy

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Guile Hero Damsel in Distress Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Anguished Declaration of Love Laughing Mad Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Our Zombies Are Different Dropped a Bridge on Him Stealth Pun In Medias Res Affectionate Parody Bunny-Ears Lawyer Off with His Head! Fan Disservice Hong Kong Films Historical-Domain Character Obfuscating Stupidity A God Am I Straight Gay Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Berserk Button Nice Hat Kick the Son of a Bitch The Bully Australian Movies Mercy Kill Broken Aesop Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Artistic License – Law Index of Film Westerns Redemption Equals Death Dutch Angle Bury Your Gays Not Quite Dead Woman Scorned Hollywood Darkness Cassandra Truth Big Bad Villain Ball French Films Leave the Camera Running Death Glare Bloody Hilarious Dirty Old Man What You Are in the Dark All for Nothing Toplessness from the Back The Load Fantastic Racism Evil Counterpart Bolivian Army Ending Anti-Hero Depraved Bisexual Big Bad Duumvirate Vacation Films Contrived Coincidence Five-Man Band Expy From Nobody to Nightmare Historical Villain Upgrade Black Dude Dies First Sir Swears-a-Lot Historical In-Joke Imagine Spot Dumb Blonde Improvised Weapon Body Horror Crapsack World Card-Carrying Villain I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Faking the Dead Large Ham Sexy Discretion Shot In Name Only Dramatic Gun Cock Deliberately Monochrome Determinator aka: The Determinator Author Avatar Only in It for the Money Mugging the Monster Eiffel Tower Effect Early-Bird Cameo Sports Stories Domestic Abuse Villain Opening Scene Creative Closing Credits Intergenerational Friendship Jerkass Genre Shift Scary Black Man Taking the Bullet Bad "Bad Acting" Friend to All Children Vomit Discretion Shot Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! As the Good Book Says... Authority Equals Asskicking Rated M for Manly Bi the Way Crazy Jealous Guy Plot Hole Names to Run Away from Really Fast Red Herring Big "NO!" Everyone Has Standards Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Breaking the Fourth Wall Failed a Spot Check Evil Is Petty Villain Protagonist He Who Fights Monsters One-Man Army Beauty Is Never Tarnished Revenge Laser-Guided Karma Wicked Cultured Artistic License – Biology Superhero Daddy's Girl Married to the Job Bland-Name Product Age Lift Spiritual Successor Cat Fight Cool Shades Neck Lift Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Alas, Poor Villain Get Out! Adaptation Dye-Job Race Against the Clock I Need a Freaking Drink Blatant Lies Tempting Fate Loads and Loads of Characters You Have Failed Me Skewed Priorities Say My Name Motor Mouth Attempted Rape Ragtag Bunch of Misfits I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Punch-Clock Villain Taking You with Me Super Strength Disappeared Dad Fake Shemp Antagonist Title Cool Car Action Girl Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The '60s Pimped-Out Dress Almost Kiss Covers Always Lie Scenery Porn All Just a Dream Big Applesauce Ship Tease Composite Character Freeze-Frame Bonus Spiteful Spit Your Head A-Splode Bound and Gagged Big-Bad Ensemble Bloodless Carnage Important Haircut Here We Go Again! Deadpan Snarker I Have Your Wife Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Good Is Not Nice The Cameo Honor Before Reason Dying Moment of Awesome Film Series Arc Words One-Word Title Affably Evil Mooks Parental Neglect Only One Name Big Eater Soft Glass Anyone Can Die Bad Boss The Hero Developing Doomed Characters Betty and Veronica Green-Eyed Monster Jerk Jock Film Noir Index Naked People Are Funny Villainous Breakdown Nice Guy The Stoner Dramatic Irony Downer Ending Artistic License – Military Politically Incorrect Villain Manchild Suddenly SHOUTING! The End... Or Is It? Random Events Plot Country Matters Horror Comedy Last-Name Basis Belligerent Sexual Tension Dual Wielding Older Than They Look Implacable Man Be Careful What You Wish For True Companions Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Hero of Another Story Morality Pet Mythology Gag Neck Snap The Cavalry Spell My Name with an "S" Male Gaze The Reveal Animated Credits Opening Double Entendre Adaptational Heroism Disney Villain Death Better to Die than Be Killed Romantic False Lead What the Hell, Hero? No Antagonist Logo Joke Narrator Cold-Blooded Torture Dogged Nice Guy Karma Houdini Disproportionate Retribution The Faceless The Hero Dies Amoral Attorney Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Off-into-the-Distance Ending Totally Radical Heterosexual Life-Partners The Starscream Batman Gambit Playing Gertrude Evil Brit Children Are Innocent The Casanova Parental Abandonment Even Evil Has Loved Ones Gender Flip Due to the Dead 20 Minutes into the Future Wham Shot Smoking Is Cool Not So Stoic Decoy Protagonist Deconstruction Recycled IN SPACE! Parental Substitute Mad Scientist Daylight Horror Product Placement Fire-Forged Friends Whole Plot Reference Dark Reprise Handicapped Badass Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Outrun the Fireball Riddle for the Ages Beard of Evil The Bad Guy Wins The Sociopath Extreme Doormat Cloudcuckoolander Pragmatic Adaptation Shower Scene She's Got Legs Psychopathic Manchild As Long as It Sounds Foreign Framing Device The Dog Bites Back Adaptation Distillation Jerkass Has a Point Corrupt Corporate Executive Celebrity Paradox Funny Background Event Throwing Your Sword Always Works Knight Templar Adorkable Immune to Bullets Those Two Bad Guys Gory Discretion Shot More Dakka The Lost Lenore A Father to His Men Brick Joke Fanservice Extra Mexican Standoff Catapult Nightmare Irony Defiant to the End Shell-Shocked Veteran Biopic Frame-Up Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Psycho for Hire Russian Films Flashback Abhorrent Admirer Brainless Beauty Room Full of Crazy Obstructive Bureaucrat Never Trust a Trailer Death by Adaptation Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other A.I. Is a Crapshoot Papa Wolf Defrosting Ice Queen Ambiguous Ending Undying Loyalty Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Bottomless Magazines No Name Given Fish out of Water Credits Gag Advertised Extra Empathic Environment Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Shirtless Scene Gorn Hypocrite Gratuitous English Villain with Good Publicity Intrepid Reporter Annoying Younger Sibling Creepy Child Foregone Conclusion Unusual Euphemism Manipulative Bastard Book-Ends Broken Pedestal Moment Killer Love Triangle N-Word Privileges Wrong Genre Savvy Bare Your Midriff Determinator Costume Porn Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Heel–Face Turn Drugs Are Bad Shown Their Work Does This Remind You of Anything? Unspoken Plan Guarantee Blackmail My Greatest Failure Cain and Abel Hair-Trigger Temper Silent Movie Chekhov's Skill Ambiguous Disorder Pre-Mortem One-Liner Our Vampires Are Different Rich Bitch Boom, Headshot! 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You Killed My Father Cluster F-Bomb Dissonant Serenity Evil Sounds Deep The Place La Résistance Not So Above It All Ax-Crazy Gainax Ending Informed Ability Video Credits Adaptational Attractiveness Sci-Fi Horror Hypocritical Humor Loophole Abuse Actually Pretty Funny Worthy Opponent Rule of Cool Really Gets Around Meaningful Echo Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Have a Gay Old Time An Axe to Grind Armor-Piercing Question Bittersweet Ending Red Shirt Death Seeker Reality Is Unrealistic The Smart Guy Rape as Drama Fainting Adults Are Useless Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Mighty Whitey Novelization Horror Films Meaningful Background Event Italian Films Naïve Newcomer Running Gag Vitriolic Best Buds Sanity Slippage Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Kill 'em All Death of a Child Disney Death Amusing Injuries Up to Eleven Karmic Death Storming the Castle The Ace Kill It with Fire Thriller Adaptational Villainy Badass Longcoat The Musical From Bad to Worse Heroic BSoD Wretched Hive Historical Hero Upgrade Meaningful Name Time Skip Non-Indicative Name The X of Y The '70s Pre-Asskicking One-Liner This Is Gonna Suck Black and Gray Morality Curse Cut Short Ms. Fanservice Fatal Flaw Black Comedy Offscreen Teleportation Faux Affably Evil Department of Redundancy Department Stylistic Suck Face Death with Dignity The Quiet One Drill Sergeant Nasty Coming-of-Age Story Deal with the Devil Word of God Rasputinian Death Not So Different Zombie Stories The Film of the Book Face–Heel Turn Character Development Peek-a-Boo Corpse German Films Dwindling Party Love at First Sight Sealed Evil in a Can I'm a Humanitarian The '50s Fanservice Evil vs. Evil Accidental Misnaming The Vamp The '80s Rule of Three Nothing Is Scarier Actor Allusion "Well Done, Son!" 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Epilogue Chekhov's Gunman Interrupted Suicide "Awesome McCool" Name Fun with Acronyms Instant Death Bullet Police Brutality Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Slasher Movie Brutal Honesty I Did What I Had to Do Cowboy Cop Fate Worse than Death May–December Romance Did Not Get the Girl Mr. Fanservice Asshole Victim Pretty in Mink Mystery and Detective Films Men Are the Expendable Gender The Power of Love Dramedy Killed Mid-Sentence Pyrrhic Victory Those Two Guys Artistic License – Gun Safety Only a Flesh Wound Meet Cute Adult Fear Double-Meaning Title No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Remake Drowning My Sorrows Missing Mom Overly Long Gag Light Is Not Good Suspiciously Specific Denial Tap on the Head Abusive Parents Bilingual Bonus Posthumous Character Camp Gay Dirty Cop My God, What Have I Done? Stock Footage Science Fiction Films Demoted to Extra Eagleland Darker and Edgier B-Movie The Chick Redshirt Army Canon Foreigner Hope Spot Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Bowdlerise Monumental Damage Adaptation Name Change Made of Explodium The Ghost Very Loosely Based on a True Story Bait-and-Switch timeperiod Take That! Heel Realization One Steve Limit Hollywood Law Sequel Escalation Dull Surprise Punny Name Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Didn't Think This Through Calling the Old Man Out Police are Useless Knife Nut Heroes Want Redheads Evil Laugh It's Personal My Beloved Smother Eye Scream Reality Ensues Blood Knight Happily Married Martial Arts Movie Expository Hairstyle Change Smug Snake Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The Dragon Pet the Dog Four-Temperament Ensemble Public Domain Feature Films Protagonist Title World of Ham Final Girl Back from the Dead Ungrateful Bastard folderlabel Rule of Symbolism No OSHA Compliance Author Appeal Adaptational Badass Demonic Possession Setting Update Tranquil Fury Visual Pun Needs Wiki Magic Love Well-Intentioned Extremist Butt-Monkey Does Not Like Shoes In the Back Enemy Mine Badass Grandpa Unresolved Sexual Tension Bring My Brown Pants Dies Wide Open For Want of a Nail Action Prologue Christmas Movies Index Pragmatic Villainy Awesome, but Impractical Call-Back As You Know Same Language Dub Twist Ending Artistic License – Physics Every Car Is a Pinto Stuff Blowing Up Romantic Comedy The Lancer It's All About Me BFG Distracted by the Sexy Insane Troll Logic Those Wacky Nazis Humans Are Bastards Freudian Excuse Broken Bird The Voiceless Only Known by Their Nickname The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Hero Antagonist Award-Bait Song Danny Peary Cult Movies List Kick the Dog A Date with Rosie Palms Air-Vent Passageway MacGuffin Grievous Bottley Harm Car Fu Destination Defenestration Chiaroscuro Film Noir Rousing Speech Documentary Bond One-Liner Animal Title Index NO INDOOR VOICE Dark and Troubled Past Death by Irony Humiliation Conga Captain Obvious Groin Attack Unusually Uninteresting Sight The Great Depression Soundtrack Dissonance She Cleans Up Nicely Animal Motifs Based on a True Story Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Exact Words Put on a Bus Ass Shove Manic Pixie Dream Girl Comically Missing the Point Small Name, Big Ego Earn Your Happy Ending Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Mundane Made Awesome Ironic Echo All Girls Want Bad Boys No Ending Insult Backfire Bullying a Dragon Serious Business Extremely Short Timespan Television Movie Index Precision F-Strike O.O.C. Is Serious Business Wham Line Foreshadowing War Is Hell Reality Has No Subtitles Aluminum Christmas Trees Chase Scene How We Got Here And I Must Scream Break the Cutie Heroic Sacrifice No Celebrities Were Harmed Hidden Depths Stealth Hi/Bye Woman in White Epic Movie Crucified Hero Shot Even Evil Has Standards All Men Are Perverts Psychological Thriller Kids Are Cruel Badass Boast Idiot Ball Cool Guns Retirony Jitter Cam Ghost Fiction Villain Song Establishing Character Moment Epic Fail Fat Bastard Tagline Shoot the Shaggy Dog Leitmotif Rewatch Bonus