Tropescilloscope: Wham Line

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Evil Sounds Deep A Date with Rosie Palms Never My Fault Never Found the Body Accidental Murder Immune to Bullets Sanity Slippage Police Brutality Dark Action Girl Villain Ball Only a Flesh Wound Guns Akimbo Affably Evil Camp Gay Villainous Breakdown Politically Incorrect Villain Narrator Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Evil-Detecting Dog Smoking Is Cool Card-Carrying Villain Comically Missing the Point The Mole Expy Anachronic Order Deadpan Snarker Stylistic Suck Eldritch Abomination Bittersweet Ending The Dog Bites Back Protagonist Title Evil Laugh Canadian Movies Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Retired Badass Hidden Depths Martial Arts Movie From Bad to Worse Chekhov's Skill Eye Scream Meet Cute Eagleland Green-Eyed Monster Dumb Blonde She's Got Legs Bait-and-Switch Leitmotif Those Two Guys Cat Fight Peek-a-Boo Corpse You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Reality Has No Subtitles Half the Man He Used to Be Outrun the Fireball Pragmatic Villainy Villain Protagonist Advertised Extra Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Big Damn Heroes Author Avatar Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome No OSHA Compliance And Starring Bare Your Midriff Exactly What It Says on the Tin The Ditz Re-Cut Bottomless Magazines Shown Their Work Translation Convention Psychopathic Manchild Up to Eleven Ass Shove Ripped from the Headlines And the Adventure Continues Death Seeker Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Hope Spot Horror Comedy Face–Heel Turn Frame-Up Sadistic Choice Berserk Button Big Applesauce The Dragon Important Haircut Death by Irony Punny Name Adult Fear Take That! Age Lift '80s Hair Mad Scientist Kill 'em All Maybe Ever After Intrepid Reporter No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Plucky Comic Relief Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Pragmatic Adaptation Let's Get Dangerous! Revenge Neck Lift Slap-Slap-Kiss Genre Throwback Annoying Younger Sibling Rewatch Bonus Lampshade Hanging Fourth Date Marriage Jump Scare All for Nothing Black Comedy Heel–Face Turn Gold Digger The Power of Love Mystery and Detective Films Evil vs. Evil Blackmail Costume Porn Film Noir Index Paper-Thin Disguise Dual Wielding Casting Gag As the Good Book Says... 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Take a Third Option Black Comedy Rape Guile Hero The Cavalry The '50s Big Brother Instinct Works Set in World War II Easily Forgiven Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Bury Your Gays Silence Is Golden Domestic Abuse Eiffel Tower Effect Male Frontal Nudity Determinator aka: The Determinator Author Appeal The Casanova Not Even Bothering with the Accent Death by Adaptation Not Using the "Z" Word Bad "Bad Acting" Military and Warfare Films Japanese Films N-Word Privileges The Mafia Adorkable You Killed My Father Blood from the Mouth Sealed Evil in a Can Bond Villain Stupidity Meaningful Name Hong Kong Films Big-Bad Ensemble Meaningful Background Event Mood Whiplash Armor-Piercing Question 20 Minutes into the Future Ms. Fanservice The Vamp Coming-of-Age Story Wretched Hive Imagine Spot Jitter Cam Really Gets Around Tap on the Head Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Wicked Cultured Plot Hole Manipulative Bastard Moment Killer Batman Gambit Deliberately Monochrome Superhero Vacation Films Ship Tease Hypocrite Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Big Fancy House Ungrateful Bastard Drugs Are Bad An Axe to Grind Heroic BSoD Pre-Mortem One-Liner Obstructive Bureaucrat Aluminum Christmas Trees Public Domain Feature Films Television Movie Index Even Evil Has Loved Ones Sir Swears-a-Lot Framing Device Here We Go Again! 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Idiot Ball Arc Words Action Prologue Deliberate Values Dissonance Captain Ersatz Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Sexy Discretion Shot Fantasy Films I Have Your Wife Insistent Terminology Science Fiction Films Russian Films Action Genre Stepford Smiler Mistaken for Gay Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Novelization Bloodless Carnage Race Lift Drives Like Crazy Disney Villain Death Riddle for the Ages Developing Doomed Characters Our Zombies Are Different Sci-Fi Horror Brutal Honesty Amoral Attorney Taking You with Me Crazy-Prepared Karma Houdini Anti-Hero Break the Haughty Token Minority Dressing as the Enemy The Brute Cool Car Setting Update Film Noir Dramatic Irony Fainting The Load Composite Character Straight Gay Broken Pedestal Artistic License – Biology Foreshadowing Those Two Bad Guys The Great Depression Only Known by Their Nickname The Starscream Drill Sergeant Nasty Logo Joke Kids Are Cruel I Did What I Had to Do Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Fake Shemp Hypocritical Humor Bald of Evil Blood Knight Does Not Like Shoes Bowdlerise Kubrick Stare Badass Normal Dramatic Gun Cock Suspiciously Specific Denial Babies Ever After Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Epilogue Even Evil Has Standards Air-Vent Passageway Hate Sink Hollywood Law Eureka Moment Pretty in Mink I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Aside Glance Small Name, Big Ego Mighty Whitey Shirtless Scene You Have Failed Me As Long as It Sounds Foreign The Faceless Catch-Phrase Rule of Funny Boom, Headshot! Curse Cut Short Real Life Writes the Plot Recycled IN SPACE! Dark Is Not Evil Skewed Priorities The Ghost Pimped-Out Dress Crapsack World Film Series Reasonable Authority Figure Mundane Made Awesome Psycho for Hire More Dakka "Well Done, Son!" Guy Calling the Old Man Out The Oner Corrupt Corporate Executive Dirty Cop Slasher Movie Five-Man Band Yandere What the Hell, Hero? Bavarian Fire Drill NO INDOOR VOICE He Knows Too Much Random Events Plot Diabolus ex Machina He Who Fights Monsters Happily Married The Place Fiery Redhead Break the Cutie My Greatest Failure Action Girl Undying Loyalty Super Strength Get Out! Good Is Not Nice Not So Above It All Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Lancer This Is Gonna Suck The Voiceless Slasher Smile Black and Gray Morality Not What It Looks Like Adults Are Useless Scenery Gorn It Can Think What Happened to the Mouse? Parental Neglect Married to the Job Cat Scare Fatal Family Photo Final Girl Flipping the Bird Well-Intentioned Extremist Damsel in Distress Adaptation Expansion Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Soundtrack Dissonance After the End Artistic License – Law Morality Pet The Stoner Brother–Sister Incest Animated Credits Opening Off-into-the-Distance Ending Alliterative Name Drowning My Sorrows Aww, Look! 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Gender Flip Non-Indicative Name Arch-Enemy Light Is Not Good Say My Name Too Dumb to Live Destination Defenestration Cloudcuckoolander The Chick And I Must Scream Parental Abandonment The Alleged Car The Reveal Almost Kiss Only Sane Man Adaptation Dye-Job Vampire Fiction For Want of a Nail Pyrrhic Victory Closed Circle One-Word Title Did Not Get the Girl Hollywood Darkness Put on a Bus Taking the Bullet Jerkass Friend to All Children Four-Temperament Ensemble Vomit Discretion Shot Animal Title Index Bad Boss Eyepatch of Power Enemy Mine Honor Before Reason Butt-Monkey As You Know Stock Footage Every Car Is a Pinto Interrupted Suicide Groin Attack MacGuffin I'm a Humanitarian Precision F-Strike In Name Only Heterosexual Life-Partners folderlabel Unreliable Narrator Knife Nut Dutch Angle How We Got Here Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Stalker with a Crush Fatal Flaw Improbable Aiming Skills Room Full of Crazy Naïve Newcomer Playing Gertrude Those Wacky Nazis Badass Grandpa Australian Movies Oh, Crap! German Films