Tropescilloscope: Martial Arts Movie

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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Loads and Loads of Characters Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil N-Word Privileges Cowboy Cop In Name Only Pragmatic Villainy Award-Bait Song Evil Cannot Comprehend Good '80s Hair Stylistic Suck Butt-Monkey Knight Templar Disney Death Revenge Chekhov's Skill Crucified Hero Shot Sexy Discretion Shot Freudian Excuse Small Name, Big Ego The Faceless Badass in a Nice Suit Sir Swears-a-Lot The '70s Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Get Out! Kill It with Fire Canadian Movies Blackmail The '90s Adaptation Distillation Horror Comedy Eureka Moment Book-Ends Same Language Dub Credits Gag Dying Moment of Awesome And Starring Straight Gay Pragmatic Adaptation Action Girl No Name Given Character Development Naïve Newcomer Developing Doomed Characters "Well Done, Son!" Guy Here We Go Again! 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War Is Hell Eyepatch of Power B-Movie An Aesop Training Montage Madness Mantra Jitter Cam Those Two Bad Guys Wounded Gazelle Gambit Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Non-Indicative Name Pretty in Mink Loophole Abuse Cold-Blooded Torture Anguished Declaration of Love Vampire Fiction A God Am I Horror Films Unwitting Instigator of Doom She Cleans Up Nicely Artistic License – History The Stinger I Need a Freaking Drink Lighter and Softer Eiffel Tower Effect Bad Boss Face–Heel Turn Mythology Gag And the Adventure Continues Early Installment Weirdness Bare Your Midriff Unresolved Sexual Tension Card-Carrying Villain Man on Fire Silence Is Golden Half the Man He Used to Be Bowdlerise Dissonant Serenity Big Bad Bound and Gagged How We Got Here Posthumous Character Very Loosely Based on a True Story Rule of Symbolism Love at First Sight The Mole Captain Obvious Naked People Are Funny Light Is Not Good Adorkable Killed Mid-Sentence Serial Killer Evil Brit Final Girl Romantic False Lead Hoist by His Own Petard Artistic License – Military Not Even Bothering with the Accent Took a Level in Badass German Films Hell Is That Noise Pre-Mortem One-Liner Composite Character Trailers Always Spoil Self-Deprecation Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Continuity Nod May–December Romance "The Reason You Suck" Speech Fatal Flaw Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Manic Pixie Dream Girl Historical In-Joke Darkest Hour Reality Is Unrealistic Only Sane Man Flipping the Bird Race Lift Shout-Out The Remake Shirtless Scene Improvised Weapon Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Cluster F-Bomb Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Tempting Fate I Did What I Had to Do Death Glare Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Animated Credits Opening Drill Sergeant Nasty Took a Level in Jerkass Darker and Edgier Retirony Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Brick Joke Real Life Writes the Plot Not So Stoic Line-of-Sight Name Video Credits Nice Guy Dirty Old Man Intrepid Reporter Men Are the Expendable Gender Evil Sounds Deep All Just a Dream Rewatch Bonus Meet Cute Rated M for Manly Time Skip Hair-Trigger Temper Interrupted Suicide It Can Think Large Ham Retired Badass Playing Gertrude Retcon The Alleged Car Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Superhero Sacrificial Lion Humiliation Conga Your Cheating Heart Jerkass Has a Point Dull Surprise Didn't Think This Through Thriller Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Evil Laugh From Nobody to Nightmare Jerk with a Heart of Gold Mundane Made Awesome Meaningful Background Event You Have Failed Me Deconstruction Anyone Can Die Epic Fail Works Set in World War II The Mafia Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Sassy Black Woman Age Lift Bloodless Carnage Shown Their Work Depraved Bisexual Rich Bitch Domestic Abuse Casting Gag Rule of Funny Undying Loyalty Visual Pun Handicapped Badass Public Domain Feature Films Only a Flesh Wound folderlabel Does This Remind You of Anything? Five-Man Band Wham Line Corpsing Product Placement Film Noir Index After the End Exact Words Bait-and-Switch Artistic License – Gun Safety Tagline Made of Explodium You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Camp Gay Even Evil Has Loved Ones Heel Realization Taking You with Me Random Events Plot Rape as Drama "Shaggy Dog" Story Villain Opening Scene Twist Ending Animal Motifs Immune to Bullets Put on a Bus No OSHA Compliance Heroic Sacrifice The Alcoholic Anachronic Order Henpecked Husband Back from the Dead Adapted Out Genre Throwback Super Strength Blood Knight Neck Lift Not So Different Dark and Troubled Past Gory Discretion Shot Laser-Guided Karma Token Minority In Medias Res All Girls Want Bad Boys Guile Hero Protagonist Title Betty and Veronica The End... Or Is It? Daddy's Girl I'm a Humanitarian Love Triangle Stuff Blowing Up Plucky Comic Relief The Hero Fake Shemp NO INDOOR VOICE Meaningful Name Good Is Not Nice Animal Title Index Bald of Evil Annoying Younger Sibling Foreshadowing Refuge in Audacity Abusive Parents The Smurfette Principle La Résistance Dark Reprise Foregone Conclusion An Arm and a Leg Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Zombie Stories It's Personal Alas, Poor Villain Beard of Evil Empathic Environment Crazy Jealous Guy Translation Convention Neck Snap Psycho for Hire Novelization The Smart Guy Riddle for the Ages Really Gets Around Drowning My Sorrows Title Drop Hypocrite Red Shirt Take a Third Option Ms. Fanservice Real Life Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Once More, with Clarity! In the Back Alpha Bitch Biopic Curb-Stomp Battle The Musical Imagine Spot Based on a True Story Needs Wiki Magic Love Bilingual Bonus Those Two Guys Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Kick the Dog The Dragon Extreme Doormat Batman Gambit My Beloved Smother Wretched Hive Smoking Is Cool O.O.C. Is Serious Business Dual Wielding Not So Above It All Sequel Hook The Vamp Cool Shades Fatal Family Photo Papa Wolf Idiot Ball Obviously Evil As Himself Big Applesauce Demoted to Extra Vacation Films Easily Forgiven Adaptational Villainy The Starscream Fantasy Films Take That! 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Epilogue Car Fu Badass Boast Department of Redundancy Department Hope Spot MacGuffin Gratuitous English Celebrity Paradox Badass Normal Beta Couple Guns Akimbo Ripped from the Headlines Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Malevolent Masked Men Never Found the Body Cool Old Guy Drugs Are Bad Mercy Kill Amoral Attorney All There in the Script Contrived Coincidence Jerk Jock Does Not Like Shoes The Voiceless Break the Cutie Black Best Friend Faking the Dead Catch-Phrase All for Nothing Cloudcuckoolander Broken Pedestal And I Must Scream Silent Movie The Bad Guy Wins Eagleland Never My Fault Evil Plan The Atoner Redshirt Army Slasher Smile Red Eyes, Take Warning Dutch Angle Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Reality Has No Subtitles Cat Scare Air-Vent Passageway Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Arch-Enemy Laughing Mad Shipper on Deck Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Fire-Forged Friends Bland-Name Product Manchild Scare Chord Daylight Horror The Power of Love Dramedy Dirty Coward Chekhov's Gunman Black Comedy Dirty Cop Recycled IN SPACE! Adaptational Badass Setting Update Our Zombies Are Different Precision F-Strike Kill 'em All The Stoic No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Sports Stories Documentary Truth in Television Black and Gray Morality Did Not Get the Girl Wham Shot Crazy-Prepared Mighty Whitey Hollywood Law Bittersweet Ending Psychological Thriller Politically Incorrect Villain Off with His Head! 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