Tropescilloscope: Death Glare

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Beta Couple Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Calling the Old Man Out Four-Temperament Ensemble Abusive Parents Horror Comedy Better to Die than Be Killed Non-Indicative Name Death Seeker Armor-Piercing Question Not So Above It All Parental Incest Facial Horror Up to Eleven Red Right Hand Psychological Thriller Hair-Trigger Temper British Films Break the Haughty Deus ex Machina Flashback Ass Shove A God Am I Guile Hero Fantastic Racism Department of Redundancy Department The Mafia Gory Discretion Shot This Is Gonna Suck Composite Character Reality Has No Subtitles Authority Equals Asskicking Only One Name Heroes Want Redheads Playing Gertrude Fan Disservice Death Glare Those Two Bad Guys The Reveal "Shaggy Dog" Story Good Is Not Nice A.I. 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Guy Happily Married Handicapped Badass Age Lift Novelization Put on a Bus Wham Line Race Lift Action Prologue Adaptation Dye-Job Insult Backfire Chekhov's Gunman Greater-Scope Villain Babies Ever After The Big Guy Romantic Comedy Improbable Weapon User Flipping the Bird Spared by the Adaptation Nice Guy Dramedy MacGuffin Alpha Bitch Card-Carrying Villain Straight Gay Offscreen Teleportation Police are Useless Betty and Veronica Artistic License – Biology Domestic Abuse The Power of Love Totally Radical Death by Sex Visual Pun Adaptational Badass Ironic Echo Cassandra Truth Self-Deprecation Dissonant Serenity Let's Get Dangerous! Morality Pet Mama Bear Toplessness from the Back Time Skip Wham Shot There Is No Kill Like Overkill Pragmatic Adaptation Sequel Escalation Shell-Shocked Veteran Anti-Villain All Girls Want Bad Boys Badass Bookworm Anti-Hero Bar Brawl Scare Chord Evil Sounds Deep Take That! Intergenerational Friendship Lock and Load Montage Slashed Throat Reckless Gun Usage No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Adapted Out Comically Missing the Point Action Survivor Air-Vent Passageway Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Easily Forgiven Aside Glance Film Noir Index Training Montage Big "NO!" And I Must Scream Dies Wide Open Famous Last Words Sports Stories Skewed Priorities Heroic BSoD The Ghost Papa Wolf Closed Circle Mind Screw Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Retired Badass Mystery and Detective Films Reality Is Unrealistic As You Know An Arm and a Leg The Stoic Fiery Redhead Hooker with a Heart of Gold I Have Your Wife The Alleged Car Mythology Gag Male Gaze Break the Cutie Cool Guns Hong Kong Films Bilingual Bonus A Minor Kidroduction Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Pyrrhic Victory My Greatest Failure Bullying a Dragon Pre-Mortem One-Liner Grievous Bottley Harm The Place Aww, Look! 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Evil Plan Distracted by the Sexy Off with His Head! Author Avatar The Starscream Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Accidental Misnaming How We Got Here Downer Ending Fatal Flaw Sadistic Choice Room Full of Crazy Insistent Terminology Creepy Child In Name Only The Atoner Informed Ability Too Dumb to Live I Just Shot Marvin in the Face No Celebrities Were Harmed Stuff Blowing Up Big-Bad Ensemble NO INDOOR VOICE Crazy Jealous Guy Fat Bastard Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Idiot Ball Bond Villain Stupidity Our Zombies Are Different The Load Naïve Newcomer The Smurfette Principle Corrupt Corporate Executive Wounded Gazelle Gambit Fake Shemp Wretched Hive Adorkable Every Car Is a Pinto Bloody Hilarious Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene She Cleans Up Nicely Parental Substitute Not Quite Dead Jerkass Has a Point Slasher Movie As Himself Hollywood Darkness Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Hypocrite Based on a True Story Gender Flip More Dakka Destination Defenestration The Stoner Badass in a Nice Suit Bunny-Ears Lawyer Frame-Up Punch-Clock Villain Death by Adaptation Combat Pragmatist "Awesome McCool" Name Obstructive Bureaucrat Twist Ending Funny Background Event Missing Mom Psycho for Hire Vomit Indiscretion Shot Cool Old Lady Actor Allusion Throwing Your Sword Always Works He Who Fights Monsters Real Life Writes the Plot Retirony He Knows Too Much Eureka Moment Red Shirt Evil vs. Evil Dark and Troubled Past Dying Moment of Awesome Knife Nut Award-Bait Song Russian Films Shipper on Deck Ghost Fiction Author Appeal '80s Hair Eagleland Australian Movies Not Even Bothering with the Accent Revenge Action Girl Dirty Old Man Star-Crossed Lovers Vomit Discretion Shot The Bully The Cavalry Credits Gag Rule of Cool Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Is Serious Business Sir Swears-a-Lot It's Personal Large Ham Funny Foreigner Ominous Latin Chanting Cat Scare The Un-Reveal Television Movie Index Death of a Child Bitch in Sheep's Clothing You Killed My Father Setting Update Dirty Cop Shirtless Scene Canon Foreigner Kids Are Cruel Despair Event Horizon Made of Iron Becoming the Mask Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun It Will Never Catch On Villainous Breakdown Dwindling Party Precision F-Strike Jump Scare One-Word Title All There in the Script Villain Ball Outrun the Fireball Meaningful Background Event I Did What I Had to Do Ambiguous Ending Cruel and Unusual Death Market-Based Title In the Back Spiteful Spit For the Evulz Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Lampshade Hanging Big Fancy House Gone Horribly Right Together in Death Evil Brit World of Ham Friend to All Children Sassy Black Woman The Ditz Pretty Little Headshots Here We Go Again! 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Unusual Euphemism French Films Stealth Hi/Bye Genre Savvy Foil The Dog Bites Back Abhorrent Admirer Antagonist Title Jitter Cam Deliberately Monochrome Silent Movie Crapsack World Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Punny Name Not So Stoic Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Interrupted Suicide Science Fiction Films Your Head A-Splode Nice Hat Bare Your Midriff Not What It Looks Like Older Than They Look Stepford Smiler Romantic False Lead Even Evil Has Standards Pragmatic Villainy Enemy Mine The '50s Obviously Evil Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Broken Pedestal Hypocritical Humor The Lancer Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Neck Snap Maybe Ever After Manic Pixie Dream Girl Show Within a Show Historical In-Joke Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Book-Ends What the Hell, Hero? Artistic License – History Nothing Is Scarier Sci-Fi Horror timeperiod Ship Tease Military and Warfare Films Tranquil Fury Motor Mouth Imagine Spot Documentary Ms. Fanservice Fun with Acronyms Amoral Attorney Kill It with Fire Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Animal Motifs Laser-Guided Karma Villain Protagonist As Long as It Sounds Foreign Kick the Dog Politically Incorrect Villain Our Vampires Are Different Spanner in the Works Police Brutality Rasputinian Death I Need a Freaking Drink Creator Cameo Product Placement Irony The Sociopath Does This Remind You of Anything? Celebrity Paradox Bavarian Fire Drill Crazy-Prepared Never My Fault Depraved Bisexual Shut Up, Hannibal! Pimped-Out Dress Black Comedy Rape Diabolus ex Machina The Bad Guy Wins Animated Credits Opening Adult Fear Only in It for the Money Disproportionate Retribution Grey and Gray Morality Camera Abuse Chekhov's Gun Fanservice Developing Doomed Characters Does Not Like Shoes Took a Level in Jerkass Fainting War Is Hell Married to the Job Gainax Ending