Tropescilloscope: What You Are in the Dark

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Guy Fanservice Death Seeker Meaningful Background Event Eldritch Abomination Aluminum Christmas Trees Vitriolic Best Buds Anti-Villain Defrosting Ice Queen No-Sell Last-Name Basis Mystery and Detective Films Destination Defenestration Random Events Plot MacGuffin All Girls Want Bad Boys Papa Wolf Once More, with Clarity! Handicapped Badass Unresolved Sexual Tension A God Am I Driven to Suicide Faking the Dead Cowboy Cop Not Even Bothering with the Accent The '70s Serious Business All There in the Script One Steve Limit Back from the Dead Not So Above It All Stealth Pun The Hero Nice Hat The Stinger Action Genre The Lost Lenore Plucky Comic Relief Made of Explodium No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Evil Is Hammy The Starscream Those Two Guys Eyepatch of Power Blackmail Alas, Poor Villain Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Casting Gag Tap on the Head Karma Houdini A.I. Is a Crapshoot Let's Get Dangerous! Bittersweet Ending Broken Pedestal Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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