Tropescilloscope: Your Head A-Splode

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