Tropescilloscope: Cool Guns

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It's All About Me Dirty Old Man Eagleland Betty and Veronica O.O.C. Is Serious Business Wrong Genre Savvy Age Lift Intergenerational Friendship Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Big Bad Duumvirate Playing Gertrude Badass Grandpa Translation Convention Pretty Little Headshots Hypocritical Humor Guile Hero Never My Fault Freudian Excuse I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Hong Kong Films The Lost Lenore Insult Backfire All There in the Manual Half the Man He Used to Be Daddy's Girl Up to Eleven Costume Porn Never Trust a Trailer Psycho for Hire Suspiciously Similar Substitute Due to the Dead A Father to His Men Oh, Crap! 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Obviously Evil Very Loosely Based on a True Story Epic Fail Call-Back I Have Your Wife Good Is Not Nice Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Friend to All Children Broken Aesop 20 Minutes into the Future Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Daylight Horror Foregone Conclusion Anyone Can Die Evil Laugh Despair Event Horizon Imagine Spot Storming the Castle Insistent Terminology Badass Longcoat Framing Device Hooker with a Heart of Gold Character Development Ascended Extra Does This Remind You of Anything? Leitmotif Badass Boast Big "NO!" 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Spiteful Spit He Knows Too Much Artistic License – Physics Bland-Name Product It's Personal Brutal Honesty Crapsack World "The Reason You Suck" Speech Eureka Moment Downer Ending Accidental Murder Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Papa Wolf Parental Abandonment Evil-Detecting Dog Shout-Out You Have Failed Me Slap-Slap-Kiss Badass Normal Manchild Outrun the Fireball Skewed Priorities Fourth Date Marriage Here We Go Again! Final Girl Science Fiction Films Bloody Hilarious Bury Your Gays Break the Haughty Trailers Always Spoil Sacrificial Lion Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Overprotective Dad Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Artistic License – Biology Reasonable Authority Figure Babies Ever After Everyone Has Standards The Oner Early Installment Weirdness Bad Boss Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Poor Communication Kills Real Life Cluster F-Bomb Artistic License – Military Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality This Is Gonna Suck Random Events Plot Anachronism Stew Hate Sink Market-Based Title Throwing Your Sword Always Works Never Found the Body Works Set in World War II Love Triangle Too Dumb to Live Historical-Domain Character Air-Vent Passageway Documentary Mighty Whitey Central Theme Stealth Hi/Bye Author Avatar Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Obfuscating Stupidity The '50s Deliberately Monochrome Nice Hat Broken Bird Villainous Breakdown Properly Paranoid Attempted Rape All Men Are Perverts Grey and Gray Morality Anti-Villain Soundtrack Dissonance Rule of Symbolism Slasher Smile Continuity Nod Knight Templar Genre Shift NO INDOOR VOICE Line-of-Sight Name Double-Meaning Title Film Noir Actor Allusion Suspiciously Specific Denial Butt-Monkey Bilingual Bonus Easily Forgiven Catapult Nightmare Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Scary Black Man The Chick Morality Pet The Faceless Get Out! 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