Tropescilloscope: Word of God

The creator personally sets the record straight. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Re-Cut Man on Fire Ship Tease BFG May–December Romance Horror Films Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Ghost Fiction Cloudcuckoolander Breaking the Fourth Wall Suspiciously Specific Denial Bar Brawl Thriller Biopic Crazy-Prepared Take a Third Option Jerkass My Beloved Smother Canadian Movies I Have Your Wife Heel Realization Cat Scare Adaptation Dye-Job Fantasy Films Animal Motifs Visual Pun Death by Adaptation The Place The Lost Lenore Cluster F-Bomb Bowdlerise Fanservice Instant Death Bullet Reality Is Unrealistic Gory Discretion Shot Femme Fatale Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Earn Your Happy Ending Retcon Laser-Guided Karma Science Fiction Films Meaningful Echo Arch-Enemy Last-Name Basis Homage Bi the Way Disproportionate Retribution Camera Abuse Eyepatch of Power Author Appeal Anyone Can Die Alliterative Name Cruel and Unusual Death Leave the Camera Running As the Good Book Says... 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Face–Heel Turn Evil Brit Irony Improvised Weapon All Girls Want Bad Boys Wretched Hive Motor Mouth Made of Iron Reasonable Authority Figure Slap-Slap-Kiss Demoted to Extra Dropped a Bridge on Him Dirty Coward Protagonist Title The '50s The Power of Love Big Bad Duumvirate Male Frontal Nudity Funny Background Event Make It Look Like an Accident Only One Name Ascended Extra Grey and Gray Morality Bilingual Bonus Badass Bookworm Kick the Dog Author Avatar Call-Forward Epic Fail Taking the Bullet As You Know Authority Equals Asskicking Every Car Is a Pinto Toplessness from the Back Mind Screw Death by Sex Obviously Evil Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Unspoken Plan Guarantee Peek-a-Boo Corpse Only in It for the Money It Can Think Adaptational Badass Artistic License – Geography Big-Bad Ensemble One Steve Limit Sequel Hook The End... Or Is It? 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Fake Shemp Match Cut Manic Pixie Dream Girl Darker and Edgier Brother–Sister Incest Cain and Abel Faking the Dead O.O.C. 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