Tropescilloscope: Badass Longcoat

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Distracted by the Sexy Drives Like Crazy The Cameo Stock Footage Line-of-Sight Name Unreliable Narrator One-Word Title Disguised in Drag Leaning on the Fourth Wall My Greatest Failure Didn't Think This Through Award-Bait Song Mama Bear A Minor Kidroduction Red Eyes, Take Warning Half the Man He Used to Be Kick the Son of a Bitch Happily Married Camera Abuse In Name Only Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Screw the Money, I Have Rules! May–December Romance Destination Defenestration Leave the Camera Running Fanservice Superhero Cluster F-Bomb Italian Films Animal Title Index Costume Porn Villain Protagonist Blood Knight The Ghost Gone Horribly Right Rule of Cool Shout-Out Mistaken for Gay Dying Moment of Awesome Hate Sink Betty and Veronica Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Eyepatch of Power Extremely Short Timespan The Dreaded Action Girl Fan Disservice Sexy Discretion Shot And the Adventure Continues Bait-and-Switch Daylight Horror Peek-a-Boo Corpse Mr. Fanservice Ironic Echo Disney Death You Have Failed Me Mercy Kill All Just a Dream Armor-Piercing Question Hero Antagonist World of Ham Antagonist Title Kill It with Fire Soundtrack Dissonance Every Car Is a Pinto Not Quite Dead Properly Paranoid Action Survivor Wicked Cultured Hollywood Law Film Noir Last-Name Basis Knife Nut BFG Spiritual Successor Big Bad Duumvirate Evil Is Petty Closed Circle Beauty Is Never Tarnished Green-Eyed Monster Parental Neglect Punch-Clock Villain Berserk Button Mythology Gag For Want of a Nail Our Vampires Are Different Artistic License – Physics Outrun the Fireball Kids Are Cruel Love at First Sight Stalker with a Crush Crazy-Prepared Important Haircut In Medias Res The Film of the Book Dark Action Girl Film Series As Long as It Sounds Foreign Villain with Good Publicity Mr. Exposition Boom, Headshot! Your Head A-Splode Be Careful What You Wish For The Musical Documentary Arranged Marriage Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Hair-Trigger Temper Serial Killer Thriller The Load Henpecked Husband The Lancer Video Credits Expository Hairstyle Change French Films "Shaggy Dog" Story Fun with Acronyms Mundane Made Awesome Improbable Aiming Skills Worthy Opponent Ass Shove Adult Fear Even Evil Has Standards Break the Haughty Funny Foreigner The Dog Bites Back Straight Gay Evil Brit Chekhov's Gunman Big Eater No Ending Bond Villain Stupidity Tap on the Head Vampire Fiction Call-Forward Alpha Bitch Handicapped Badass Nice Guy The Un-Reveal Alliterative Name Jerkass Animated Credits Opening Silence Is Golden Becoming the Mask Off with His Head! Jitter Cam Playing Gertrude Catch-Phrase Woman Scorned The Voiceless Index of Film Westerns Almost Kiss Captain Ersatz Hypocrite Manic Pixie Dream Girl Here We Go Again! 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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Older Than They Look Intergenerational Friendship Novelization Loophole Abuse Mood Whiplash Sir Swears-a-Lot Facial Horror Mexican Standoff Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique The Remake Plucky Comic Relief Intrepid Reporter Sports Stories Science Fiction Films Nothing Is Scarier Epic Movie Rape as Drama Our Zombies Are Different Aluminum Christmas Trees Deadpan Snarker Big "NO!" Never Trust a Trailer Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Papa Wolf Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Blood from the Mouth Music Stories Bloody Hilarious No Name Given Idiot Ball Death by Adaptation German Films Epic Fail Instant Death Bullet Horror Comedy