Tropescilloscope: Would Hit a Girl

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Is a Crapshoot Artistic License – Gun Safety Wham Line Creepy Child Training Montage Our Vampires Are Different Kubrick Stare He Who Fights Monsters Four-Temperament Ensemble Mighty Whitey She Cleans Up Nicely Index of Film Westerns The Mole Stuff Blowing Up Recycled IN SPACE! Evil Counterpart Taking You with Me Psychopathic Manchild Gory Discretion Shot Epic Movie Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Dark Reprise Nothing Is Scarier Sinister Minister The Stoic Early-Bird Cameo Mercy Kill "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Corrupt Corporate Executive Offscreen Teleportation Adaptation Name Change Parental Neglect Camera Abuse Jump Scare Villain with Good Publicity Adult Fear Guns Akimbo Dark Is Not Evil Dirty Cop Fiery Redhead Attempted Rape "Well Done, Son!" Guy Stalker with a Crush Silence Is Golden Camp Gay Drowning My Sorrows Gone Horribly Right Video Credits And I Must Scream Humiliation Conga Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Title Drop Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold BFG Bloodier and Gorier Bad "Bad Acting" Psycho for Hire Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Fun with Acronyms More Dakka I Did What I Had to Do Combat Pragmatist Your Cheating Heart Ironic Echo Rule of Funny Leitmotif Manchild Hope Spot Missing Mom Instant Death Bullet Military and Warfare Films Unusually Uninteresting Sight Gilligan Cut Actually Pretty Funny The Big Guy Final Girl Translation Convention Truth in Television Kill It with Fire Arranged Marriage Darkest Hour Be Careful What You Wish For The Place Captain Ersatz Dirty Old Man Music Stories Informed Ability Bowdlerise My Greatest Failure After the End Extremely Short Timespan Call-Forward Those Two Guys Big Damn Heroes Ungrateful Bastard Bloody Hilarious Brainless Beauty Unreliable Narrator Face–Heel Turn Kids Are Cruel Broken Aesop Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Psychological Thriller Abusive Parents Made of Explodium Author Avatar Historical Villain Upgrade Time Skip Together in Death Lampshade Hanging The '90s Disney Villain Death She's Got Legs Badass Bookworm Revenge An Axe to Grind Villain Opening Scene Punny Name All There in the Script Blood Knight Abhorrent Admirer Chiaroscuro Genre Savvy Cloudcuckoolander Madness Mantra Crazy-Prepared Shoot the Shaggy Dog Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Bavarian Fire Drill Babies Ever After Hypocrite Sequel Escalation Big Eater Biopic Knife Nut Too Dumb to Live Sacrificial Lion Heel–Face Turn The Musical Cat Fight Hoist by His Own Petard Big Bad Duumvirate Back from the Dead Accidental Murder Dirty Coward Mythology Gag Same Language Dub Downer Ending Overprotective Dad Foil Adaptational Attractiveness All There in the Manual Canadian Movies Meaningful Name Unwitting Instigator of Doom Aside Glance Good Is Not Nice You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Taking the Bullet Plucky Comic Relief Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Pre-Mortem One-Liner Pragmatic Villainy Thriller Insistent Terminology Breaking the Fourth Wall Brick Joke Monumental Damage Overly Long Gag Real Life Even Evil Has Standards Leave the Camera Running Amoral Attorney Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Would Hurt a Child Getting Crap Past the Radar What the Hell, Hero? Those Wacky Nazis Bond One-Liner Body Horror Setting Update Action Prologue Kick the Dog Boom, Headshot! Sole Survivor Obfuscating Stupidity Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Artistic License – Biology Totally Radical Happily Married Bare Your Midriff Calling the Old Man Out Ass Shove Ax-Crazy Pyrrhic Victory The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Japanese Films Evil Sounds Deep Suspiciously Similar Substitute Tranquil Fury Mundane Made Awesome Mind Screw Mad Scientist Meaningful Background Event Ripped from the Headlines Plot Hole Sequel Hook Spiritual Successor Maybe Ever After The Oner Cluster F-Bomb The Chick Ambiguous Disorder Author Appeal Bi the Way Once More, with Clarity! 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Bond Villain Stupidity Off-into-the-Distance Ending Brother–Sister Incest Stock Footage The Bully Shirtless Scene Pragmatic Adaptation Bait-and-Switch Cowboy Cop Loophole Abuse Evil Plan Not Even Bothering with the Accent Grievous Bottley Harm Would Hit a Girl Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Heroic BSoD Insult Backfire Dropped a Bridge on Him Creative Closing Credits Never Found the Body Honor Before Reason I'm a Humanitarian Chekhov's Gunman Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday A Date with Rosie Palms Alas, Poor Villain The Lost Lenore Faux Affably Evil Danny Peary Cult Movies List You Killed My Father Spared by the Adaptation No Name Given Reckless Gun Usage Big Brother Instinct A Father to His Men Karmic Death Henpecked Husband Stylistic Suck All for Nothing Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping "Awesome McCool" Name As Himself Gratuitous English Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Only in It for the Money No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Reality Ensues Book-Ends Bound and Gagged Really Gets Around Off with His Head! Married to the Job Villain Song Sir Swears-a-Lot I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Love Triangle Rule of Three Blatant Lies Authority Equals Asskicking Exactly What It Says on the Tin Empathic Environment War Is Hell Chase Scene In Medias Res The Hero I Have Your Wife Shell-Shocked Veteran 20 Minutes into the Future Soft Glass Artistic License – Physics Action Girl Heterosexual Life-Partners Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Dies Wide Open As the Good Book Says... Reality Is Unrealistic Outrun the Fireball Television Movie Index Up to Eleven Cool Old Lady Manic Pixie Dream Girl Yandere Framing Device Eureka Moment Celebrity Paradox Curse Cut Short Poor Communication Kills The Un-Reveal Politically Incorrect Villain Loads and Loads of Characters Deal with the Devil The Dragon Cool Car The Cavalry Dutch Angle Award-Bait Song Fantastic Racism Mistaken for Gay Flashback How We Got Here Death Glare As You Know Badass in a Nice Suit Sassy Black Woman Rich Bitch Deadpan Snarker Fire-Forged Friends Jerkass Race Lift Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Children Are Innocent Better to Die than Be Killed Bolivian Army Ending Green-Eyed Monster Parental Substitute The Brute Big "NO!" Not Using the "Z" Word Deconstruction Super Strength Cold-Blooded Torture Aluminum Christmas Trees Expy Market-Based Title Slashed Throat Crazy Jealous Guy Mr. Fanservice The Quiet One Gainax Ending The Film of the Book Our Zombies Are Different Re-Cut Leaning on the Fourth Wall Blackmail Homage Worthy Opponent Only One Name Foreshadowing Mooks Immune to Bullets Evil Brit Death by Adaptation Determinator aka: The Determinator Conspicuous CG Your Head A-Splode Insane Troll Logic Pretty Little Headshots Never My Fault Rewatch Bonus Morality Pet Obviously Evil Bury Your Gays Badass Normal Make It Look Like an Accident Greater-Scope Villain Catapult Nightmare Deliberately Monochrome Disguised in Drag The Smart Guy Improbable Aiming Skills Idiot Ball Berserk Button Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Random Events Plot Fainting Darker and Edgier Jerkass Has a Point Disney Death Put on a Bus Evil Is Hammy My Beloved Smother Contrived Coincidence Mr. Exposition From Nobody to Nightmare Man on Fire Hair-Trigger Temper Covers Always Lie Last-Name Basis Comically Missing the Point Woman Scorned Ascended Extra Not So Different Vacation Films Everyone Has Standards A Minor Kidroduction Nice Guy Moment Killer Deus ex Machina Diabolus ex Machina The Power of Love Christmas Movies Index Shower Scene It Can Think Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Film Series Soundtrack Dissonance Big Fancy House Becoming the Mask Adaptational Heroism Daylight Horror Jitter Cam Half the Man He Used to Be Cat Scare Star-Crossed Lovers Casting Gag French Films Flipping the Bird Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Bald of Evil The Cameo The Load The Stinger Call-Back Death by Sex Peek-a-Boo Corpse The Reveal Implacable Man Chekhov's Gun Did Not Get the Girl Fatal Family Photo Only Sane Man It's Personal Slap-Slap-Kiss It's All About Me Made of Iron Anyone Can Die Lighter and Softer Cruel and Unusual Death Suspiciously Specific Denial Unresolved Sexual Tension Bar Brawl Redemption Equals Death Dwindling Party Unusual Euphemism Bring My Brown Pants Butt-Monkey Punch-Clock Villain Those Two Bad Guys Never Trust a Trailer Pimped-Out Dress Closed Circle In Name Only Papa Wolf Wretched Hive Eagleland Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Woman in White The End... Or Is It? Amusing Injuries Card-Carrying Villain Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Ambiguously Gay Killed Mid-Sentence Creator Cameo Red Shirt Tempting Fate Dumb Blonde Wrong Genre Savvy Smug Snake Villainous Breakdown Bad Boss Despair Event Horizon Grey and Gray Morality The Ghost Beta Couple May–December Romance Rousing Speech '80s Hair Offscreen Moment of Awesome Badass Longcoat Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The Remake Fatal Flaw Bland-Name Product Black Dude Dies First Imagine Spot Fat Bastard Age Lift Not Quite Dead Break the Haughty Animal Motifs Shout-Out Failed a Spot Check Central Theme Exact Words Obstructive Bureaucrat Batman Gambit Took a Level in Jerkass As Long as It Sounds Foreign Anachronic Order Badass Boast Roger Ebert: Great Movies List MacGuffin Reality Has No Subtitles Air-Vent Passageway Straight Gay No Ending Costume Porn Based on a True Story Continuity Nod Laser-Guided Karma Ms. Fanservice Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Shut Up, Hannibal! Big-Bad Ensemble Word of God Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Credits Gag Big Applesauce Defiant to the End B-Movie Developing Doomed Characters Small Name, Big Ego Manly Tears Artistic License – Military Narrator Bitch in Sheep's Clothing The Great Depression Fan Disservice Anachronism Stew Freudian Excuse Country Matters Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Defrosting Ice Queen Beware the Nice Ones The Stoner The Starscream Motor Mouth Hell Is That Noise Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Adaptation Distillation Alliterative Name Animated Credits Opening Victoria's Secret Compartment Posthumous Character Well-Intentioned Extremist Adapted Out La Résistance N-Word Privileges Throwing Your Sword Always Works Logo Joke Does Not Like Shoes Reasonable Authority Figure Hypocritical Humor Historical In-Joke The Ditz Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Didn't Think This Through Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Actor Allusion Large Ham Death of a Child Stepford Smiler Daddy's Girl Hate Sink No OSHA Compliance Evil Is Petty Unspoken Plan Guarantee Needs Wiki Magic Love Anti-Villain Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Important Haircut Cain and Abel Dark Action Girl Crucified Hero Shot An Arm and a Leg Malevolent Masked Men Left the Background Music On Not What It Looks Like Redshirt Army Double-Meaning Title An Aesop Only Known by Their Nickname In the Back Enemy Mine Works Set in World War II Artistic License – History Eldritch Abomination Beauty Is Never Tarnished Heel Realization "The Reason You Suck" Speech Femme Fatale Storming the Castle Drill Sergeant Nasty Token Minority Badass Grandpa Accidental Misnaming Scary Black Man All Men Are Perverts Fanservice The Dreaded Auto Erotica Spiteful Spit British Films Improbable Weapon User Improvised Weapon Destination Defenestration Affably Evil No-Sell Foregone Conclusion