Tropescilloscope: Breaking the Fourth Wall

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Adaptational Heroism Alpha Bitch Improbable Aiming Skills Even Evil Has Loved Ones For Want of a Nail Did Not Get the Girl Intergenerational Friendship Your Head A-Splode Almost Kiss Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Closed Circle Made of Explodium Black Comedy The Dragon Your Cheating Heart Humans Are Bastards Older Than They Look Pre-Mortem One-Liner Crazy Jealous Guy Hero Antagonist Catch-Phrase Documentary The Reveal Shout-Out French Films Famous Last Words Faking the Dead Final Girl Show Within a Show Film Noir Curse Cut Short Fate Worse than Death Leitmotif Black Best Friend Rule of Funny Artistic License – Biology 20 Minutes into the Future Disguised in Drag Brainless Beauty Despair Event Horizon Parental Incest Attempted Rape Dwindling Party Adaptational Villainy Animated Credits Opening Deliberate Values Dissonance Corpsing Villain Opening Scene Villain Protagonist Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Mythology Gag Cruel and Unusual Death Shoot the Shaggy Dog Adaptation Dye-Job Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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