Tropescilloscope: Your Head A-Splode

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Is a Crapshoot Loophole Abuse Funny Foreigner Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Reality Has No Subtitles Those Two Guys Historical Hero Upgrade Intergenerational Friendship Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Romantic False Lead The Oner Knight Templar Insistent Terminology Paper-Thin Disguise Ominous Latin Chanting The Stoner Accidental Misnaming Action Girl Hollywood Darkness Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Not Even Bothering with the Accent Deadpan Snarker Badass Normal Silent Movie Hypocritical Humor Alpha Bitch Dark Is Not Evil Gainax Ending Badass Longcoat Asshole Victim Be Careful What You Wish For Drowning My Sorrows Sealed Evil in a Can Vomit Discretion Shot He Who Fights Monsters Victoria's Secret Compartment Killed Mid-Sentence Combat Pragmatist Random Events Plot No Ending Humiliation Conga Spared by the Adaptation Match Cut Sanity Slippage Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Badass in a Nice Suit Anyone Can Die Adult Fear Every Car Is a Pinto Conspicuous CG Sinister Minister Karmic Death Shower Scene Politically Incorrect Villain Older Than They Look Stepford Smiler Heroic BSoD Interrupted Suicide Blackmail Anachronism Stew Informed Ability Danny Peary Cult Movies List Foil Actor Allusion A Father to His Men Brick Joke Getting Crap Past the Radar Male Frontal Nudity The Sociopath I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Greater-Scope Villain Narrator Bavarian Fire Drill Domestic Abuse Auto Erotica Groin Attack Death by Sex Mugging the Monster Henpecked Husband Thriller Affectionate Parody Downer Ending Pay Evil unto Evil Kill 'em All Horror Comedy Dying Moment of Awesome Red Oni, Blue Oni Fatal Flaw The End... 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Is Serious Business Vampire Fiction Gorn War Is Hell Parental Neglect Exact Words Blood from the Mouth Wicked Cultured B-Movie Bad Boss Immune to Bullets Contrived Coincidence Bound and Gagged Public Domain Feature Films Frame-Up NO INDOOR VOICE This Is Gonna Suck Only a Flesh Wound Dropped a Bridge on Him Non-Indicative Name Mistaken for Gay Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Naïve Newcomer Never Trust a Trailer Adults Are Useless An Aesop Pimped-Out Dress Not What It Looks Like Honor Before Reason It Will Never Catch On Flipping the Bird Unusually Uninteresting Sight Revenge Nothing Is Scarier Chekhov's Skill Really Gets Around Important Haircut Eyepatch of Power Kubrick Stare Despair Event Horizon Straight Gay Fantasy Films Mercy Kill Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Rated M for Manly My Beloved Smother Leaning on the Fourth Wall Villain Protagonist Beta Couple Does Not Like Shoes folderlabel Fire-Forged Friends Crucified Hero Shot One-Word Title Age Lift Sadistic Choice Show Within a Show Belligerent Sexual Tension Male Gaze Last-Name Basis The Mole Animated Credits Opening Alas, Poor Villain Protagonist Title Dual Wielding Decoy Protagonist Cowboy Cop Evil Brit Sole Survivor Hope Spot Gilligan Cut Manly Tears Malevolent Masked Men Biopic Bowdlerise The Voiceless Big Fancy House Brutal Honesty True Companions The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Drugs Are Bad Foregone Conclusion Creator Cameo Break the Cutie The Vamp Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Film of the Book Small Name, Big Ego Kill It with Fire Good Is Not Nice Historical-Domain Character Offscreen Moment of Awesome Slasher Movie Sir Swears-a-Lot Same Language Dub Badass Bookworm Sports Stories Nice Hat Anti-Hero Bloodier and Gorier The Chick Credits Gag Hair-Trigger Temper Rape as Drama Fingore Unreliable Narrator Famous Last Words Action Genre Pretty Little Headshots Loads and Loads of Characters Dies Wide Open Creative Closing Credits Ship Tease No Antagonist Deliberate Values Dissonance Cool Old Guy Not So Above It All Crapsack World Product Placement Breaking the Fourth Wall One-Man Army Anachronic Order Deus ex Machina Green-Eyed Monster Jitter Cam Psycho for Hire No Celebrities Were Harmed The '80s Zombie Stories Artistic License – Biology Annoying Younger Sibling Bullying a Dragon Plucky Comic Relief French Films Extremely Short Timespan Storming the Castle Off with His Head! 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Mr. Fanservice Jerk Jock Children Are Innocent Psychological Thriller Abhorrent Admirer Spell My Name with an "S" Guile Hero Riddle for the Ages Grey and Gray Morality Animal Title Index Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Dark Reprise Fainting Film Noir Index Hooker with a Heart of Gold Rich Bitch Men Are the Expendable Gender There Is No Kill Like Overkill Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Not So Stoic Pretty in Mink Retired Badass Guns Akimbo Names to Run Away from Really Fast Expy Air-Vent Passageway Scenery Gorn Shipper on Deck Agony of the Feet The X of Y Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Wrong Genre Savvy Five-Man Band "Shaggy Dog" Story Artistic License – History Adaptation Name Change Manipulative Bastard Our Zombies Are Different Taking You with Me Friend to All Children Chewing the Scenery Scary Black Man Eldritch Abomination Mythology Gag No OSHA Compliance Television Movie Index Overprotective Dad Instant Death Bullet Catch-Phrase Rule of Symbolism Genre Throwback Properly Paranoid Car Fu All There in the Script The Bully Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Disappeared Dad Rule of Three Easily Forgiven The Starscream Lampshade Hanging Celebrity Paradox timeperiod Break the Haughty Left the Background Music On Heroic Sacrifice Adaptational Attractiveness The Quiet One Stylistic Suck The Alcoholic Big Brother Instinct Logo Joke Slap-Slap-Kiss Defiant to the End Christmas Movies Index Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene A Minor Kidroduction Sassy Black Woman Exactly What It Says on the Tin Unusual Euphemism Dissonant Serenity Historical Villain Upgrade Babies Ever After Have a Gay Old Time Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Yandere Broken Pedestal Call-Back As the Good Book Says... 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Noodle Incident World of Ham Destination Defenestration Almost Kiss She's Got Legs Fanservice Extra Eagleland Evil Is Petty Only One Name Love at First Sight Canon Foreigner Bare Your Midriff A Date with Rosie Palms All Girls Want Bad Boys Demonic Possession Artistic License – Gun Safety Faux Affably Evil From Bad to Worse Sexy Discretion Shot Fate Worse than Death Manic Pixie Dream Girl Genre Savvy Bunny-Ears Lawyer Camp Gay BFG Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Artistic License – Military You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Diabolus ex Machina Outrun the Fireball Wham Line Dull Surprise Fake Shemp "Awesome McCool" Name Only Known by Their Nickname Silence Is Golden Bolivian Army Ending I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Blood Knight Mystery and Detective Films Shown Their Work Central Theme Posthumous Character Fun with Acronyms Does This Remind You of Anything? Big Bad Duumvirate Retirony Broken Aesop Re-Cut German Films Ms. Fanservice Truth in Television Vomit Indiscretion Shot One Steve Limit Four-Temperament Ensemble Tap on the Head The Hero Animal Motifs Word of God Married to the Job Author Appeal Grievous Bottley Harm Madness Mantra Super Strength Dwindling Party Soundtrack Dissonance My Greatest Failure Comically Missing the Point Obviously Evil Early Installment Weirdness You Killed My Father Corpsing Meaningful Name Failed a Spot Check Dark and Troubled Past Black Dude Dies First N-Word Privileges Dogged Nice Guy Card-Carrying Villain Big Damn Heroes Here We Go Again! Spiteful Spit As Long as It Sounds Foreign Femme Fatale Neck Snap An Arm and a Leg Adaptational Heroism Science Fiction Films Russian Films I'm a Humanitarian Bottomless Magazines Spiritual Successor My God, What Have I Done? The '90s Hong Kong Films Dirty Cop Coming-of-Age Story Antagonist Title Mighty Whitey Oh, Crap! Make It Look Like an Accident Butt-Monkey Our Vampires Are Different The Dreaded Race Lift Action Survivor Rousing Speech Dumb Blonde I Have Your Wife Improvised Weapon Canadian Movies The Smart Guy Implacable Man Scenery Porn Arranged Marriage Casting Gag Determinator Monumental Damage Rasputinian Death Index of Film Westerns Mexican Standoff Tranquil Fury Meet Cute Face–Heel Turn Better to Die than Be Killed Drill Sergeant Nasty Calling the Old Man Out Authority Equals Asskicking Bad "Bad Acting" Leitmotif Captain Obvious Video Credits It's All About Me As You Know You Have Failed Me Totally Radical All for Nothing Rule of Funny Meaningful Echo