Tropescilloscope: Reality Has No Subtitles

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