Tropescilloscope: Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?

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Is Serious Business Card-Carrying Villain Wrong Genre Savvy folderlabel Bait-and-Switch Downer Ending All Just a Dream Depraved Bisexual Slasher Movie My Beloved Smother Face–Heel Turn Crapsack World Soft Glass Ripped from the Headlines Mugging the Monster Interrupted Suicide Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Badass Longcoat Didn't Think This Through Love Triangle Drugs Are Bad Adapted Out Arch-Enemy Flipping the Bird Training Montage War Is Hell Meaningful Echo Gilligan Cut Creator Cameo Outrun the Fireball The Smart Guy Earn Your Happy Ending A Father to His Men Berserk Button Beauty Is Never Tarnished Dressing as the Enemy No-Sell My God, What Have I Done? Tagline No Antagonist Left the Background Music On A Minor Kidroduction Killed Mid-Sentence One-Word Title Fainting Dies Wide Open Neck Lift Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Author Avatar Five-Man Band The Starscream The Quiet One The Place You Killed My Father Get Out! Never Found the Body Not So Different Disguised in Drag Friend to All Children Match Cut From Nobody to Nightmare Storming the Castle Ass Shove The Chessmaster Villainous Breakdown Death by Irony The Dreaded Reality Ensues Sanity Slippage Evil Is Petty Fantasy Films Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Nice Hat An Axe to Grind Reality Is Unrealistic Romantic Comedy Rule of Three Shirtless Scene Cool Shades Defrosting Ice Queen Artistic License – Geography Deadpan Snarker Cool Guns Early-Bird Cameo Product Placement A God Am I Rasputinian Death Rousing Speech Adaptation Dye-Job Hollywood Darkness I Need a Freaking Drink Never Trust a Trailer The Vamp Foreshadowing The Great Depression Becoming the Mask Fan Disservice Would Hit a Girl The Big Guy The Reveal Bi the Way Hidden Depths Famous Last Words Sealed Evil in a Can Irony Hypocrite Arc Words Authority Equals Asskicking Unspoken Plan Guarantee British Films Those Wacky Nazis Foregone Conclusion Exact Words Setting Update Straight Gay Cain and Abel Homage Science Fiction Films Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Amusing Injuries I Have Your Wife Accidental Murder Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Sequel Hook Artistic License – Physics Bound and Gagged Scare Chord Obstructive Bureaucrat Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Hero Dies Stalker with a Crush Cluster F-Bomb Evil Plan Even Evil Has Loved Ones You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Epic Movie Bar Brawl Sacrificial Lion Jerk with a Heart of Gold Line-of-Sight Name An Aesop A Date with Rosie Palms Politically Incorrect Villain Shower Scene Insistent Terminology Adorkable Chekhov's Skill Flashback Totally Radical Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Bilingual Bonus Camera Abuse Gold Digger Does This Remind You of Anything? Brother–Sister Incest Gratuitous English Public Domain Feature Films I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Mundane Made Awesome Eye Scream Crazy Jealous Guy Domestic Abuse It's Personal Break the Haughty The Mole Costume Porn Taking the Bullet Defiant to the End Yandere Everyone Has Standards Sole Survivor Male Gaze Getting Crap Past the Radar Evil Brit Shoot the Shaggy Dog Disproportionate Retribution Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Darkest Hour Vacation Films Non-Indicative Name Mad Scientist Big-Bad Ensemble Butt-Monkey Dirty Old Man Crucified Hero Shot Parental Incest Captain Ersatz Damsel in Distress Super Strength Adaptation Name Change Retired Badass Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Scenery Gorn Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Blackmail Not Even Bothering with the Accent Rule of Symbolism Reality Has No Subtitles Stealth Hi/Bye Dramatic Gun Cock Gender Flip The Power of Love The '60s Rich Bitch Cat Scare Catch-Phrase Well-Intentioned Extremist Jerkass Has a Point Hoist by His Own Petard Military and Warfare Films timeperiod Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Faking the Dead Country Matters Casting Gag Leave the Camera Running Asshole Victim Rule of Funny Never My Fault Death of a Child Action Genre Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Ambiguously Gay Expy Narrator Historical Hero Upgrade Badass Bookworm Unusual Euphemism Time Skip Advertised Extra Artistic License – Gun Safety Awesome, but Impractical Aside Glance Silent Movie Once More, with Clarity! Grey and Gray Morality Manipulative Bastard It Will Never Catch On Took a Level in Badass German Films Intrepid Reporter Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Instant Death Bullet Based on a True Story Zombie Stories Bland-Name Product Leaning on the Fourth Wall Eureka Moment You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Police Brutality Fingore Exactly What It Says on the Tin Sci-Fi Horror Stylistic Suck Smoking Is Cool Ship Tease Batman Gambit Corpsing Real Life Writes the Plot Reckless Gun Usage In Medias Res Those Two Bad Guys Actually Pretty Funny Bare Your Midriff Older Than They Look Only in It for the Money There Is No Kill Like Overkill Posthumous Character Tempting Fate Take a Third Option Overprotective Dad Diabolus ex Machina Oh, Crap! Noodle Incident Punny Name The End... Or Is It? Plucky Comic Relief Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Body Horror Pet the Dog All Girls Want Bad Boys The Hero Even Evil Has Standards Blatant Lies Big Eater Fate Worse than Death Idiot Ball Overly Long Gag Very Loosely Based on a True Story Not So Stoic Gory Discretion Shot Belligerent Sexual Tension Big Applesauce Vitriolic Best Buds The Lancer Fanservice Extra Manly Tears Parental Substitute Chewing the Scenery Deal with the Devil World of Ham Villain Protagonist Anyone Can Die Chekhov's Gunman Jitter Cam No OSHA Compliance Spiritual Successor Chiaroscuro The Ditz Here We Go Again! Spanner in the Works Pyrrhic Victory Guile Hero Fourth Date Marriage Those Two Guys Male Frontal Nudity Bond Villain Stupidity Italian Films Death by Sex Monumental Damage Back from the Dead Up to Eleven As Himself Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Adaptation Expansion Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Imagine Spot Needs Wiki Magic Love The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Breaking the Fourth Wall Black Comedy Put on a Bus Dramatic Irony Cruel and Unusual Death Chekhov's Gun Papa Wolf Improbable Weapon User Broken Aesop For the Evulz Scary Black Man Mercy Kill BFG The Chick Department of Redundancy Department Dark Reprise Wounded Gazelle Gambit Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Disney Villain Death The Sociopath My Greatest Failure Villain Ball Obfuscating Stupidity Daylight Horror The Dog Bites Back Boom, Headshot! Artistic License – Law Big Fancy House Show Within a Show Fantastic Racism Insult Backfire Annoying Younger Sibling Affectionate Parody Shell-Shocked Veteran Love at First Sight Wham Shot Trailers Always Spoil For Want of a Nail The Film of the Book Armor-Piercing Question True Companions Death Seeker Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Author Appeal Central Theme Mama Bear Heroes Want Redheads The Cameo Framing Device Hooker with a Heart of Gold The Ace Only Known by Their Nickname Book-Ends French Films Truth in Television Light Is Not Good Handicapped Badass Not What It Looks Like Married to the Job Eiffel Tower Effect Black Dude Dies First Darker and Edgier Shipper on Deck Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Enemy Mine Anachronism Stew Hate Sink Gorn The Dragon Lighter and Softer Jerkass Disney Death Bring My Brown Pants Mexican Standoff Green-Eyed Monster Mind Screw Greater-Scope Villain Fire-Forged Friends Creepy Child Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Dirty Cop Sadistic Choice Amoral Attorney Dissonant Serenity Stock Footage The Smurfette Principle Stepford Smiler Creative Closing Credits Covers Always Lie No Ending Cool Old Lady Deus ex Machina And the Adventure Continues Smug Snake Agony of the Feet Accidental Misnaming The Alcoholic Broken Bird Fatal Family Photo Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Undying Loyalty Recycled IN SPACE! Together in Death Make It Look Like an Accident Ms. Fanservice Malevolent Masked Men The '80s Pragmatic Adaptation Too Dumb to Live Genre Shift Actor Allusion Made of Iron Suspiciously Specific Denial Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Dogged Nice Guy Bloodless Carnage After the End Drowning My Sorrows Serial Killer Market-Based Title Alpha Bitch Mood Whiplash Shut Up, Hannibal! Tranquil Fury Red Oni, Blue Oni Meaningful Background Event Retirony Action Prologue Off with His Head! Music Stories Adaptational Badass The Mafia Plot Hole No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Ax-Crazy Paper-Thin Disguise Roaring Rampage of Revenge Bottomless Magazines Cool Old Guy Adult Fear Stuff Blowing Up Serious Business Leitmotif Early Installment Weirdness Protagonist Title Arranged Marriage Christmas Movies Index Kill 'em All Jerk Jock The Stoic Anti-Hero Captain Obvious Meaningful Name Bury Your Gays Danny Peary Cult Movies List Ironic Echo As You Know Bittersweet Ending The Voiceless Fish out of Water Film Noir Important Haircut Jump Scare Bad Boss Henpecked Husband Deconstruction Closed Circle Pimped-Out Dress Historical Villain Upgrade Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold The Atoner Artistic License – History Hope Spot Disappeared Dad Bunny-Ears Lawyer Pretty in Mink Naked People Are Funny Hair-Trigger Temper Self-Deprecation The Ghost The Bad Guy Wins Determinator aka: The Determinator Sinister Minister Broken Pedestal Man on Fire Loads and Loads of Characters Blood from the Mouth Sassy Black Woman Adaptation Distillation Unresolved Sexual Tension Toplessness from the Back Heel–Face Turn Riddle for the Ages Poor Communication Kills Sequel Escalation Knife Nut One-Man Army Decoy Protagonist Betty and Veronica Our Zombies Are Different Hong Kong Films Dull Surprise Canadian Movies An Arm and a Leg No Good Deed Goes Unpunished This Is Gonna Suck Immune to Bullets Historical In-Joke Rape as Drama It Can Think Curb-Stomp Battle Badass in a Nice Suit All There in the Script The Oner Red Right Hand Kubrick Stare Russian Films Japanese Films Villain Song Have a Gay Old Time Improvised Weapon Mystery and Detective Films Spared by the Adaptation Horror Films Nothing Is Scarier Dramedy Implacable Man Faux Affably Evil Adults Are Useless Shout-Out Cassandra Truth Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Pre-Mortem One-Liner The '70s Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Half the Man He Used to Be Call-Forward Twist Ending Blonde, Brunette, Redhead From Bad to Worse Redemption Equals Death Lock and Load Montage Hell Is That Noise Rewatch Bonus Frame-Up Comically Missing the Point Victoria's Secret Compartment Extreme Doormat Mr. Exposition A.I. Is a Crapshoot '80s Hair Let's Get Dangerous! Lampshade Hanging Spell My Name with an "S" Beware the Nice Ones Maybe Ever After She Cleans Up Nicely Not So Above It All Eldritch Abomination Manic Pixie Dream Girl The Cavalry Apocalypse How Ominous Latin Chanting Race Against the Clock Ungrateful Bastard The Load Revenge Small Name, Big Ego Bad "Bad Acting" Dwindling Party Guns Akimbo 20 Minutes into the Future Hypocritical Humor Throwing Your Sword Always Works All Men Are Perverts Evil Laugh Suddenly SHOUTING! Does Not Like Shoes In the Back More Dakka Auto Erotica Take That! Expository Hairstyle Change Destination Defenestration Death Glare Men Are the Expendable Gender The '50s She's Got Legs Film Noir Index Slashed Throat Due to the Dead Off-into-the-Distance Ending Bowdlerise Red Eyes, Take Warning Dirty Coward Dual Wielding Missing Mom Bald of Evil Visual Pun The '90s Beard of Evil Mr. Fanservice Intergenerational Friendship Logo Joke Credits Gag The Musical Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience What the Hell, Hero? Karmic Death I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Offscreen Teleportation Slasher Smile As the Good Book Says... "The Reason You Suck" Speech Car Fu Tap on the Head Thriller Worthy Opponent Brainless Beauty Bolivian Army Ending Anti-Villain Foil Celebrity Paradox Anachronic Order Grievous Bottley Harm Children Are Innocent Documentary Animal Title Index Drill Sergeant Nasty Easily Forgiven Australian Movies Kick the Son of a Bitch It's All About Me Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Room Full of Crazy Babies Ever After Nice Guy Informed Ability Abhorrent Admirer Gone Horribly Right Random Events Plot NO INDOOR VOICE Double-Meaning Title Properly Paranoid "Well Done, Son!" Guy Face Death with Dignity Mighty Whitey Groin Attack Affably Evil Mythology Gag Horror Comedy Coming-of-Age Story Rule of Cool Superhero Playing Gertrude Karma Houdini Gainax Ending Air-Vent Passageway Neck Snap Vampire Fiction Knight Templar Woman Scorned Deliberate Values Dissonance Drives Like Crazy The Stinger Our Vampires Are Different Unwitting Instigator of Doom Heroic Sacrifice Wham Line Token Minority The Bully Death by Adaptation Mooks Black Comedy Rape Punctuated! For! Emphasis! He Knows Too Much Canon Foreigner Badass Boast No Name Given Catapult Nightmare Black Best Friend Only a Flesh Wound Laser-Guided Karma Animal Motifs Chase Scene Extremely Short Timespan Antagonist Title Your Cheating Heart Skewed Priorities Action Girl Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Same Language Dub As Long as It Sounds Foreign Adaptational Attractiveness Evil Is Hammy Badass Normal Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Evil vs. Evil Demoted to Extra Reasonable Authority Figure Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Kick the Dog Hero Antagonist Video Credits Ghost Fiction Black and Gray Morality Villain Opening Scene Facial Horror Bloodier and Gorier Sexy Discretion Shot Martial Arts Movie Calling the Old Man Out Wicked Cultured Curse Cut Short Heterosexual Life-Partners The X of Y The Remake Establishing Character Moment Contrived Coincidence Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Fun with Acronyms Ambiguous Disorder Real Life Camp Gay Fanservice I'm a Humanitarian Unreliable Narrator Happily Married All for Nothing "Awesome McCool" Name Taking You with Me Good Is Not Nice Animated Credits Opening Be Careful What You Wish For Better to Die than Be Killed Psychopathic Manchild Bullying a Dragon Silence Is Golden Psychological Thriller Naïve Newcomer Villain with Good Publicity Badass Grandpa Evil-Detecting Dog Heroic BSoD One Steve Limit Humiliation Conga The Casanova Every Car Is a Pinto Fatal Flaw Daddy's Girl Running Gag What Happened to the Mouse? Biopic Took a Level in Jerkass Insane Troll Logic Ascended Extra Red Herring Driven to Suicide The Stoner Re-Cut Pragmatic Villainy Scenery Porn Unusually Uninteresting Sight Fat Bastard Historical-Domain Character All There in the Manual Big Damn Heroes Fake Shemp Call-Back Parental Abandonment Genre Throwback Improbable Aiming Skills Works Set in World War II Almost Kiss How We Got Here Cat Fight Dying Moment of Awesome Continuity Nod Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Made of Explodium Failed a Spot Check Dark Action Girl Hero of Another Story Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun And I Must Scream Distracted by the Sexy Epic Fail Sir Swears-a-Lot No Celebrities Were Harmed Only One Name Evil Counterpart Television Movie Index Not Using the "Z" Word Brick Joke Eyepatch of Power Fiery Redhead Conspicuous CG You Have Failed Me Soundtrack Dissonance In Name Only Four-Temperament Ensemble N-Word Privileges Adaptational Villainy Vomit Indiscretion Shot Vomit Discretion Shot Rated M for Manly Dark and Troubled Past Romantic False Lead La Résistance Determinator Peek-a-Boo Corpse Not Quite Dead Genre Savvy Honor Before Reason Empathic Environment Morality Pet Psycho for Hire Meet Cute Heel Realization Stealth Pun Novelization Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Hollywood Law Freeze-Frame Bonus Cloudcuckoolander Artistic License – Biology Madness Mantra Manchild "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Deliberately Monochrome Mistaken for Gay Film Series Dark Is Not Evil Alas, Poor Villain Sports Stories Redshirt Army Evil Sounds Deep Award-Bait Song Title Drop Refuge in Audacity Loophole Abuse Freudian Excuse Names to Run Away from Really Fast The Un-Reveal Final Girl Obviously Evil "Shaggy Dog" Story Beta Couple What You Are in the Dark Dutch Angle Eagleland Big "NO!" Moment Killer Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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