Tropescilloscope: Shut Up, Hannibal!

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Blackmail Deadpan Snarker Made of Explodium Retirony Redshirt Army Novelization Skewed Priorities Revenge Call-Forward Card-Carrying Villain Shell-Shocked Veteran Animal Motifs Offscreen Moment of Awesome Adult Fear She Cleans Up Nicely Damsel in Distress Race Lift Not Even Bothering with the Accent Eiffel Tower Effect Extreme Doormat Unresolved Sexual Tension Anyone Can Die Adaptational Villainy Beware the Nice Ones Non-Indicative Name Dutch Angle One Steve Limit Dirty Coward An Aesop Fate Worse than Death No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Public Domain Feature Films Dies Wide Open Cain and Abel Parental Abandonment All Just a Dream Title Drop Oh, Crap! Informed Ability Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? And the Adventure Continues Random Events Plot Australian Movies Yandere A Father to His Men I Have Your Wife Curse Cut Short Framing Device The Alcoholic The Atoner Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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There Is No Kill Like Overkill Call-Back Pimped-Out Dress Anti-Hero Names to Run Away from Really Fast Big Bad Car Fu Christmas Movies Index Historical In-Joke Cool Shades Adaptational Heroism Badass Grandpa Affectionate Parody Villain Song Demoted to Extra Overprotective Dad Offscreen Teleportation The '80s Despair Event Horizon Kick the Son of a Bitch Black Comedy Rape Almost Kiss Fan Disservice Asshole Victim Disproportionate Retribution As Long as It Sounds Foreign Maybe Ever After You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The '60s Mood Whiplash Brainless Beauty Gainax Ending Irony folderlabel Rich Bitch Shirtless Scene Gold Digger Index of Film Westerns Real Life Cool Old Guy Wham Line Word of God Scenery Porn One-Man Army All Girls Want Bad Boys Japanese Films Parental Neglect All Men Are Perverts Drill Sergeant Nasty The Casanova Bloody Hilarious The Ghost Black Comedy Half the Man He Used to Be Heroic Sacrifice Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Mad Scientist Ambiguously Gay Face Death with Dignity Scary Black Man Pay Evil unto Evil Evil Sounds Deep Covers Always Lie Grey and Gray Morality Blood Knight Composite Character A Date with Rosie Palms Guile Hero Badass Bookworm The Musical Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Death by Irony Intergenerational Friendship The Dragon Leave the Camera Running Apocalypse How Cool Car Cat Fight "The Reason You Suck" Speech Exactly What It Says on the Tin Time Skip 20 Minutes into the Future Evil Laugh Show Within a Show Not Using the "Z" Word Fantastic Racism Vacation Films Together in Death Central Theme Superhero Mooks Ass Shove Improvised Weapon Bad Boss Insult Backfire Eye Scream Silent Movie Genre Shift Guns Akimbo Totally Radical Five-Man Band Even Evil Has Standards Market-Based Title Serious Business Big-Bad Ensemble Bottomless Magazines Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Manchild Big Brother Instinct Accidental Murder Naïve Newcomer MacGuffin Scare Chord Kids Are Cruel Manly Tears More Dakka The Ace Mr. Fanservice Rewatch Bonus Batman Gambit Fiery Redhead Rasputinian Death Whole Plot Reference Vampire Fiction Dark Is Not Evil NO INDOOR VOICE Insane Troll Logic Early Installment Weirdness Fanservice Extra Actor Allusion Knife Nut Drives Like Crazy The Un-Reveal Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Is a Crapshoot The Stoner Mercy Kill Re-Cut Star-Crossed Lovers The Sociopath Henpecked Husband Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Artistic License – Gun Safety Black Best Friend No Name Given Psycho for Hire Dark and Troubled Past Not So Different Hero Antagonist Say My Name Affably Evil Arc Words B-Movie Vitriolic Best Buds Tranquil Fury Those Wacky Nazis Pragmatic Adaptation Big Eater Very Loosely Based on a True Story Humans Are Bastards Your Head A-Splode Camera Abuse The Chick Neck Snap Greater-Scope Villain Bland-Name Product Mr. Exposition Deliberate Values Dissonance Dressing as the Enemy Arranged Marriage Faking the Dead Deus ex Machina N-Word Privileges Psychopathic Manchild Make It Look Like an Accident Film Noir Fantasy Films Cat Scare Bury Your Gays Foreshadowing Kick the Dog Adaptation Expansion Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Once More, with Clarity! 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Earn Your Happy Ending And I Must Scream Super Strength The Brute Evil Brit Accidental Misnaming As Himself The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite In the Back Distracted by the Sexy Plucky Comic Relief Evil Is Hammy Abusive Parents Facial Horror Sequel Escalation Villainous Breakdown Aside Glance All for Nothing Author Appeal Karma Houdini