Tropescilloscope: Wretched Hive

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