Tropescilloscope: Police Brutality

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Adaptational Attractiveness Action Survivor Famous Last Words Action Prologue Star-Crossed Lovers Shout-Out Bait-and-Switch Red Shirt MacGuffin Rewatch Bonus Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Take That! Camera Abuse Chewing the Scenery Green-Eyed Monster Arch-Enemy Ambiguously Gay Redemption Equals Death Punch-Clock Villain In Name Only Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Reality Ensues Four-Temperament Ensemble Leave the Camera Running Adaptational Heroism Attempted Rape Drives Like Crazy Body Horror Adaptation Dye-Job Calling the Old Man Out Let's Get Dangerous! 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Defrosting Ice Queen Our Vampires Are Different And Starring Bilingual Bonus Developing Doomed Characters Loophole Abuse Nice Hat An Axe to Grind Red Right Hand Not So Stoic Title Drop Slashed Throat Annoying Younger Sibling No Antagonist Brutal Honesty Bolivian Army Ending Race Lift Despair Event Horizon Funny Background Event Re-Cut N-Word Privileges Greater-Scope Villain Agony of the Feet Bury Your Gays Belligerent Sexual Tension Action Genre Horror Comedy Badass Normal The Great Depression Big Eater Award-Bait Song Offscreen Moment of Awesome Amusing Injuries In Medias Res Combat Pragmatist Destination Defenestration Reality Has No Subtitles Meet Cute Big Bad Duumvirate One-Word Title Epic Fail Logo Joke Mystery and Detective Films Alpha Bitch Death of a Child Cold-Blooded Torture Cloudcuckoolander He Who Fights Monsters Pragmatic Villainy Sassy Black Woman Not So Different Everyone Has Standards Man on Fire Evil Counterpart Russian Films Running Gag Spiritual Successor Parental Neglect Neck Lift Parental Abandonment Lampshade Hanging Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Up to Eleven For the Evulz The Vamp Revenge Politically Incorrect Villain Brother–Sister Incest Took a Level in Jerkass Those Wacky Nazis Abusive Parents Frame-Up Scenery Gorn Naked People Are Funny Villain Ball Poor Communication Kills The Hero Dies Accidental Misnaming The Lancer Plot Hole Hypocrite War Is Hell Christmas Movies Index Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Blackmail Bring My Brown Pants Gold Digger Instant Death Bullet Not What It Looks Like "Awesome McCool" Name The '50s Drill Sergeant Nasty A Father to His Men Twist Ending Breaking the Fourth Wall For Want of a Nail Chekhov's Gun Totally Radical Spared by the Adaptation "Well Done, Son!" 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Is Serious Business Expy German Films Due to the Dead Off-into-the-Distance Ending Wounded Gazelle Gambit Rule of Three Mistaken for Gay Papa Wolf Kubrick Stare Authority Equals Asskicking Evil Laugh Auto Erotica Vomit Discretion Shot Sealed Evil in a Can Mood Whiplash Missing Mom Last-Name Basis Deliberately Monochrome Mr. Exposition British Films Mugging the Monster The Starscream Small Name, Big Ego Sexy Discretion Shot Amoral Attorney Bloodier and Gorier Evil Brit Fish out of Water Genre Shift Disney Villain Death Canon Foreigner Setting Update The X of Y Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Bullying a Dragon Gilligan Cut Sequel Escalation Every Car Is a Pinto Creator Cameo Stealth Pun The End... Or Is It? 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