Tropescilloscope: Your Head A-Splode

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The Faceless Apocalypse How Everyone Has Standards Demoted to Extra Our Vampires Are Different The Ditz Big Brother Instinct Insane Troll Logic Even Evil Has Loved Ones Ambiguous Disorder Put on a Bus Badass Grandpa Deus ex Machina Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Crucified Hero Shot Bittersweet Ending Smoking Is Cool Thriller The Mafia No Celebrities Were Harmed Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Flipping the Bird Unwitting Instigator of Doom Russian Films Bring My Brown Pants In Medias Res Corpsing Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Unreliable Narrator Martial Arts Movie Punch-Clock Villain Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Evil Plan The Stoner Establishing Character Moment Jerk Jock A.I. Is a Crapshoot Dying Moment of Awesome Historical-Domain Character Aside Glance Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Motor Mouth Military and Warfare Films Black and Gray Morality Berserk Button Unspoken Plan Guarantee Epic Fail Beard of Evil Breaking the Fourth Wall Rule of Cool Madness Mantra As You Know Double Entendre All Just a Dream Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Based on a True Story "Awesome McCool" Name Only Sane Man Red Eyes, Take Warning Not So Different Insistent Terminology The Big Guy Decoy Protagonist Woman Scorned Dark Reprise Retcon Adaptational Attractiveness Cassandra Truth Slashed Throat Bunny-Ears Lawyer Ship Tease Artistic License – Physics The Vamp As Long as It Sounds Foreign Affectionate Parody Truth in Television Mood Whiplash You Have Failed Me What the Hell, Hero? 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Heterosexual Life-Partners Stealth Hi/Bye Brother–Sister Incest And the Adventure Continues Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality N-Word Privileges Adaptational Badass Badass Bookworm Properly Paranoid Deliberately Monochrome Not Using the "Z" Word Arc Words Up to Eleven Composite Character Dirty Coward Bury Your Gays Abhorrent Admirer Grievous Bottley Harm War Is Hell Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Rule of Symbolism Not So Stoic In Name Only Parental Substitute The Dog Bites Back Say My Name Attempted Rape Danny Peary Cult Movies List Sinister Minister The Load Tempting Fate Facial Horror Eye Scream Anyone Can Die Evil Is Hammy The Sociopath Crazy Jealous Guy Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Mama Bear Gold Digger Actor Allusion Country Matters I Have Your Wife Spared by the Adaptation Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Running Gag Parental Abandonment Made of Iron Cool Guns Idiot Ball Rasputinian Death Cluster F-Bomb Extreme Doormat Brick Joke Death Glare Call-Back Works Set in World War II No Antagonist Affably Evil Bond One-Liner Didn't Think This Through Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Despair Event Horizon Drill Sergeant Nasty The Musical Combat Pragmatist This Is Gonna Suck The Hero Dies Dogged Nice Guy Dirty Cop Intergenerational Friendship Fatal Flaw Children Are Innocent Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Genre Savvy Novelization Token Minority The '60s The Mole Camp Gay Paper-Thin Disguise The Great Depression The Starscream Took a Level in Badass Action Prologue Hollywood Law Jitter Cam Cat Fight Worthy Opponent Match Cut The Reveal Jerk with a Heart of Gold Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Light Is Not Good The Ghost Credits Gag He Knows Too Much Gone Horribly Right Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Badass Boast French Films One-Word Title Hate Sink Belligerent Sexual Tension Hero of Another Story Ms. Fanservice Irony Funny Foreigner Dramatic Irony Alpha Bitch Artistic License – Military Earn Your Happy Ending Aluminum Christmas Trees Big Eater The Smart Guy No-Sell Better to Die than Be Killed Pay Evil unto Evil Calling the Old Man Out British Films Laughing Mad Exact Words Sequel Hook Reality Ensues Gratuitous English Sci-Fi Horror Jerkass Here We Go Again! 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Is Serious Business Beware the Nice Ones I'm a Humanitarian Brainless Beauty Unresolved Sexual Tension NO INDOOR VOICE Creator Cameo Defrosting Ice Queen Laser-Guided Karma Neck Snap Nice Hat Meaningful Name Only a Flesh Wound Twist Ending Actually Pretty Funny Kick the Son of a Bitch Maybe Ever After Blood Knight Hooker with a Heart of Gold Closed Circle Artistic License – History Important Haircut Adaptation Dye-Job Mundane Made Awesome Jump Scare No OSHA Compliance Disney Villain Death 20 Minutes into the Future Ironic Echo Nothing Is Scarier Heroic Sacrifice Does Not Like Shoes Training Montage Wham Shot Scenery Porn Parental Incest Spell My Name with an "S" Foregone Conclusion Humiliation Conga Sir Swears-a-Lot The Voiceless Due to the Dead Card-Carrying Villain Five-Man Band Romantic Comedy Pragmatic Adaptation Butt-Monkey Men Are the Expendable Gender Fish out of Water Informed Ability Darkest Hour Dramedy The Quiet One Evil Sounds Deep Chekhov's Gunman How We Got Here Reality Has No Subtitles Artistic License – Law Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Same Language Dub I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Moment Killer Crapsack World An Axe to Grind It's All About Me Video Credits A God Am I Eyepatch of Power Diabolus ex Machina Those Two Guys Ominous Latin Chanting He Who Fights Monsters Adults Are Useless Only One Name Slasher Smile An Aesop Evil Is Petty Horror Comedy