Tropescilloscope: Covers Always Lie

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Guy Protagonist Title Major Injury Underreaction Award-Bait Song Rewatch Bonus Last-Name Basis Bottomless Magazines I Have Your Wife Soundtrack Dissonance And Starring Only a Flesh Wound I'm a Humanitarian He Knows Too Much Slasher Movie Pretty Little Headshots Manly Tears Sacrificial Lion Gilligan Cut Red Right Hand Logo Joke Military and Warfare Films Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Exact Words Would Hit a Girl Covers Always Lie The Smart Guy Guile Hero What You Are in the Dark Unspoken Plan Guarantee Bury Your Gays The Cavalry Adult Fear Improvised Weapon The Mafia Bare Your Midriff Nice Hat Meaningful Background Event Morality Pet Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Love Triangle Aluminum Christmas Trees Due to the Dead May–December Romance Extreme Doormat Implacable Man BFG Motor Mouth Villain Song Death by Sex Artistic License – Biology From Nobody to Nightmare Super Strength Those Two Guys Black and Gray Morality Bond Villain Stupidity Stalker with a Crush Soft Glass Fantastic Racism Drill Sergeant Nasty Retirony Mythology Gag The Lancer Make It Look Like an Accident Spared by the Adaptation Arch-Enemy Author Appeal I Want My Beloved to Be Happy For Want of a Nail Rich Bitch The Oner Handicapped Badass Narrator Calling the Old Man Out Attempted Rape Vomit Indiscretion Shot "Awesome McCool" Name Sports Stories Flashback Bald of Evil Crapsack World Hair-Trigger Temper Your Cheating Heart Rule of Symbolism Aside Glance Break the Cutie Tagline Hooker with a Heart of Gold Big "NO!" 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Closed Circle Historical-Domain Character Unreliable Narrator Ominous Latin Chanting Drugs Are Bad Parental Abandonment Jerkass Has a Point Every Car Is a Pinto Eye Scream Dramatic Gun Cock Developing Doomed Characters Science Fiction Films Adapted Out Japanese Films Funny Background Event No Ending Department of Redundancy Department Big Bad Duumvirate Black Comedy Rape Hate Sink Peek-a-Boo Corpse Ragtag Bunch of Misfits As the Good Book Says... Silent Movie Ascended Extra Fantasy Films Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Blatant Lies Reality Has No Subtitles Green-Eyed Monster Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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