Tropescilloscope: Wretched Hive

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Attempted Rape Dogged Nice Guy Romantic False Lead Eye Scream Arch-Enemy Dual Wielding Fish out of Water Revenge The Hero '80s Hair The Remake Humans Are Bastards Cruel and Unusual Death Bullying a Dragon An Arm and a Leg The Smart Guy Disproportionate Retribution Australian Movies Hypocritical Humor Fake Shemp Star-Crossed Lovers Rule of Symbolism Car Fu One-Word Title You Have Failed Me Fanservice Blood Knight Real Life Funny Foreigner La Résistance Annoying Younger Sibling Whole Plot Reference Reasonable Authority Figure Hidden Depths Country Matters Dark Reprise Fat Bastard Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Bad "Bad Acting" Malevolent Masked Men Black Best Friend Death Glare Getting Crap Past the Radar Adapted Out Accidental Misnaming Naïve Newcomer Anachronic Order Those Two Bad Guys Corpsing Abusive Parents Irony Jerk Jock Playing Gertrude Even Evil Has Loved Ones Made of Explodium Beware the Nice Ones Darker and Edgier A Minor Kidroduction Parental Abandonment Scenery Porn Neck Lift Make It Look Like an Accident Room Full of Crazy Epic Movie Male Frontal Nudity Police Brutality Reality Has No Subtitles Smoking Is Cool Our Zombies Are Different Catch-Phrase Offscreen Teleportation Reality Ensues Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Offscreen Moment of Awesome French Films Get Out! folderlabel Enemy Mine Antagonist Title Horror Comedy Mugging the Monster He Knows Too Much Film Series Empathic Environment Unresolved Sexual Tension Insult Backfire Gilligan Cut Made of Iron Karma Houdini Sacrificial Lion What the Hell, Hero? In Medias Res Cain and Abel No-Sell Bittersweet Ending The '70s Not So Different Took a Level in Badass Ambiguously Gay Stepford Smiler Papa Wolf Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Babies Ever After Crapsack World Villain with Good Publicity Dirty Cop Not So Above It All Death Seeker Fainting May–December Romance Downer Ending The Cameo Drill Sergeant Nasty Obviously Evil Adorkable Shipper on Deck Breaking the Fourth Wall Bottomless Magazines Butt-Monkey Genre Shift Cat Fight Improbable Aiming Skills Let's Get Dangerous! Freeze-Frame Bonus Lighter and Softer Big Bad Duumvirate My God, What Have I Done? Black and Gray Morality Idiot Ball She's Got Legs How We Got Here Cassandra Truth Too Dumb to Live Not So Stoic Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Reality Is Unrealistic Martial Arts Movie Sexy Discretion Shot The Musical Insane Troll Logic Famous Last Words O.O.C. Is Serious Business Tagline Determinator Random Events Plot Sinister Minister Would Hurt a Child Put on a Bus Plot Hole Fourth Date Marriage Friend to All Children Canon Foreigner And Starring The Mafia A.I. Is a Crapshoot Hero Antagonist Foreshadowing Small Name, Big Ego Spell My Name with an "S" Guns Akimbo Authority Equals Asskicking Real Life Writes the Plot I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Daylight Horror Camera Abuse Crazy Jealous Guy Anachronism Stew Twist Ending Pet the Dog Reckless Gun Usage Daddy's Girl Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Domestic Abuse Paper-Thin Disguise Worthy Opponent Music Stories Badass Longcoat Broken Pedestal Taking the Bullet Sequel Hook Informed Ability Say My Name Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Hope Spot Not Even Bothering with the Accent Science Fiction Films Italian Films Dressing as the Enemy Red Shirt Major Injury Underreaction The Big Guy Meaningful Background Event As You Know Mr. Exposition Television Movie Index Big "NO!" Diabolus ex Machina Covers Always Lie Chekhov's Skill Kubrick Stare Bavarian Fire Drill Dumb Blonde Foil Accidental Murder An Aesop Alliterative Name Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies I'm a Humanitarian War Is Hell Drowning My Sorrows Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Male Gaze The Dreaded You Killed My Father Awesome, but Impractical Training Montage Character Development Dutch Angle Brick Joke Dissonant Serenity Red Right Hand Adaptation Distillation Expy Line-of-Sight Name Super Strength Trailers Always Spoil Stalker with a Crush Laughing Mad Stylistic Suck Immune to Bullets Actually Pretty Funny Refuge in Audacity Fatal Family Photo Cool Shades Faux Affably Evil Time Skip Break the Haughty Stealth Pun Hero of Another Story Action Genre Action Prologue Taking You with Me Well-Intentioned Extremist Anti-Villain Ax-Crazy The Vamp Man on Fire Hell Is That Noise Missing Mom Fingore Body Horror Earn Your Happy Ending Japanese Films Gorn Rule of Three Poor Communication Kills Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Boom, Headshot! The Load The Sociopath Jump Scare Documentary Facial Horror Eldritch Abomination Demonic Possession Bad Boss Victoria's Secret Compartment Destination Defenestration Never Trust a Trailer Pyrrhic Victory Ship Tease Artistic License – Biology Leave the Camera Running Karmic Death Important Haircut Berserk Button Animal Motifs Cluster F-Bomb The '50s Adaptation Expansion Scare Chord Flipping the Bird Self-Deprecation Unreliable Narrator Race Against the Clock My Greatest Failure Captain Obvious Red Oni, Blue Oni Damsel in Distress Deus ex Machina Not What It Looks Like Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Stuff Blowing Up Curb-Stomp Battle The '60s Shirtless Scene Christmas Movies Index Deconstruction Storming the Castle Creepy Child Wounded Gazelle Gambit Parental Incest What Happened to the Mouse? Darkest Hour MacGuffin Bond One-Liner World of Ham Establishing Character Moment No Celebrities Were Harmed Composite Character Casting Gag Police are Useless Adaptational Villainy Conspicuous CG Sir Swears-a-Lot Running Gag Dull Surprise Grey and Gray Morality Alas, Poor Villain Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Jitter Cam Deadpan Snarker Hoist by His Own Petard Heel Realization Rasputinian Death Cloudcuckoolander Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Four-Temperament Ensemble Frame-Up Eiffel Tower Effect Corrupt Corporate Executive Closed Circle Retirony Instant Death Bullet Gratuitous English Ungrateful Bastard Sanity Slippage Chekhov's Gunman Easily Forgiven Badass Boast Exact Words Disappeared Dad Continuity Nod "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Parental Substitute Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Film Noir Index Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Big Damn Heroes Deliberately Monochrome Funny Background Event Manly Tears Skewed Priorities Fanservice Extra Manchild Fantasy Films Age Lift Logo Joke Kids Are Cruel Drugs Are Bad "The Reason You Suck" Speech Rousing Speech Killed Mid-Sentence The Alcoholic Jerk with a Heart of Gold Adaptation Name Change Yandere Kill It with Fire Vacation Films Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Meaningful Name Non-Indicative Name The Cavalry Lock and Load Montage No Antagonist Guile Hero Shown Their Work Good Is Not Nice Wicked Cultured Very Loosely Based on a True Story Retcon The Ace It's All About Me Scary Black Man Shower Scene Unspoken Plan Guarantee Dark and Troubled Past Badass Bookworm Award-Bait Song Abhorrent Admirer Maybe Ever After Historical-Domain Character Slap-Slap-Kiss Evil Is Petty Word of God Novelization Punny Name Everyone Has Standards Anyone Can Die Cool Old Guy Show Within a Show Artistic License – Military Eureka Moment Your Cheating Heart Evil Brit Mercy Kill Only in It for the Money There Is No Kill Like Overkill Genre Throwback Card-Carrying Villain Serial Killer Protagonist Title Unusually Uninteresting Sight Badass Grandpa "Shaggy Dog" Story Love at First Sight Visual Pun Deliberate Values Dissonance Meaningful Echo Big Eater Face–Heel Turn Adaptational Badass Vomit Discretion Shot It Will Never Catch On Rule of Cool It's Personal Mythology Gag timeperiod Leaning on the Fourth Wall Brother–Sister Incest Deal with the Devil Spiritual Successor Almost Kiss Death by Irony No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Cowboy Cop Sequel Escalation Dramedy The X of Y The Lancer Only Known by Their Nickname Final Girl The Lost Lenore Epic Fail Becoming the Mask Took a Level in Jerkass Thriller Psychopathic Manchild Big Applesauce Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Men Are the Expendable Gender Extreme Doormat Dropped a Bridge on Him Black Comedy Rape Fiery Redhead Hypocrite Honor Before Reason Bound and Gagged Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Older Than They Look "Well Done, Son!" Guy Costume Porn A God Am I Unwitting Instigator of Doom Pretty in Mink Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Author Appeal Arc Words From Nobody to Nightmare Have a Gay Old Time Mr. Fanservice Roaring Rampage of Revenge Sole Survivor Mighty Whitey The Hero Dies Sassy Black Woman Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Peek-a-Boo Corpse Market-Based Title Bond Villain Stupidity Henpecked Husband Dark Is Not Evil 20 Minutes into the Future Beta Couple You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Curse Cut Short Bunny-Ears Lawyer Heroic BSoD Spanner in the Works The Oner Historical In-Joke Gainax Ending As the Good Book Says... Adult Fear Large Ham Horror Films Slasher Movie Unusual Euphemism In Name Only German Films Humiliation Conga The '90s The Film of the Book Those Wacky Nazis Blackmail Early Installment Weirdness Artistic License – Law I Did What I Had to Do Ironic Echo Evil Laugh Heroic Sacrifice Hong Kong Films Broken Aesop For the Evulz She Cleans Up Nicely Developing Doomed Characters Mind Screw Names to Run Away from Really Fast Foregone Conclusion Title Drop He Who Fights Monsters Slasher Smile Chekhov's Gun Tap on the Head Armor-Piercing Question Fire-Forged Friends Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Naked People Are Funny Sci-Fi Horror And I Must Scream Ambiguous Ending Video Credits Manipulative Bastard A Father to His Men Black Dude Dies First Bland-Name Product Hollywood Darkness The Chessmaster In the Back Eyepatch of Power It Can Think Auto Erotica One Steve Limit Freudian Excuse Children Are Innocent Chewing the Scenery Air-Vent Passageway Creator Cameo Hooker with a Heart of Gold Never My Fault Bi the Way Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Early-Bird Cameo Ghost Fiction Combat Pragmatist Married to the Job Noodle Incident Soft Glass Animal Title Index Artistic License – Gun Safety Grievous Bottley Harm Brainless Beauty Didn't Think This Through Villain Opening Scene Actor Allusion Madness Mantra Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Kill 'em All No Ending Intrepid Reporter Bare Your Midriff Anguished Declaration of Love Pimped-Out Dress Gold Digger Pre-Mortem One-Liner Red Herring Mad Scientist Nice Guy Wham Line I Need a Freaking Drink Take a Third Option Red Eyes, Take Warning The Bully Never Found the Body Fun with Acronyms And the Adventure Continues No OSHA Compliance The Ghost Undying Loyalty Ominous Latin Chanting Cold-Blooded Torture Fan Disservice Pretty Little Headshots The Smurfette Principle Your Head A-Splode Historical Villain Upgrade Wretched Hive Bilingual Bonus Shut Up, Hannibal! Suspiciously Specific Denial All Just a Dream Scenery Gorn Token Minority Hair-Trigger Temper This Is Gonna Suck Evil Counterpart Villain Ball Needs Wiki Magic Love I Have Your Wife All There in the Script Villain Song You Have Outlived Your Usefulness No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Credits Gag Artistic License – History "Awesome McCool" Name The Stoic Genre Savvy Crazy-Prepared The Dragon Monumental Damage Not Quite Dead Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday The Atoner Advertised Extra The Starscream Suspiciously Similar Substitute Soundtrack Dissonance Rape as Drama Vampire Fiction The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Beauty Is Never Tarnished Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Biopic Celebrity Paradox Black Comedy Dirty Old Man I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Index of Film Westerns Russian Films Bait-and-Switch The Bad Guy Wins Shell-Shocked Veteran The Quiet One Nothing Is Scarier Only a Flesh Wound Love Triangle Only One Name Evil Plan Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Animated Credits Opening Arranged Marriage Framing Device Evil vs. Evil Spared by the Adaptation Agony of the Feet British Films Politically Incorrect Villain Evil Is Hammy Vitriolic Best Buds Dramatic Gun Cock Dies Wide Open Dramatic Irony The '80s The Reveal Badass in a Nice Suit Those Two Guys Jerkass The Place Throwing Your Sword Always Works Motor Mouth Blood from the Mouth Improbable Weapon User Alpha Bitch Canadian Movies Riddle for the Ages Death by Adaptation Historical Hero Upgrade Straight Gay The Alleged Car Properly Paranoid Groin Attack For Want of a Nail Rule of Funny Plucky Comic Relief Precision F-Strike As Himself Failed a Spot Check Big-Bad Ensemble Slashed Throat Setting Update Loads and Loads of Characters Apocalypse How Imagine Spot B-Movie Re-Cut Green-Eyed Monster Double Entendre Cool Old Lady Silence Is Golden Depraved Bisexual Determinator aka: The Determinator After the End Aluminum Christmas Trees Match Cut Parental Neglect Loophole Abuse Public Domain Feature Films Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Sports Stories Kick the Son of a Bitch All There in the Manual Retired Badass Mexican Standoff Rated M for Manly Bring My Brown Pants Together in Death Overprotective Dad Mooks Bloodier and Gorier Knight Templar Tempting Fate Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Bolivian Army Ending Serious Business Pragmatic Adaptation Eagleland Better to Die than Be Killed Death of a Child Would Hit a Girl From Bad to Worse Evil Sounds Deep Intergenerational Friendship Pragmatic Villainy Evil-Detecting Dog Half the Man He Used to Be Obfuscating Stupidity Faking the Dead Mystery and Detective Films Adaptational Heroism More Dakka Based on a True Story Dwindling Party Bury Your Gays Heroes Want Redheads Action Survivor Punch-Clock Villain Hollywood Law Ripped from the Headlines Product Placement Bald of Evil Defrosting Ice Queen The Power of Love Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Amusing Injuries Only Sane Man Rich Bitch Central Theme Be Careful What You Wish For Calling the Old Man Out Stealth Hi/Bye All Girls Want Bad Boys Narrator Wham Shot True Companions A Date with Rosie Palms Big Brother Instinct Suddenly SHOUTING! Shoot the Shaggy Dog Jerkass Has a Point Punctuated! For! Emphasis! The Casanova Artistic License – Physics Laser-Guided Karma Our Vampires Are Different What You Are in the Dark Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Fate Worse than Death Adults Are Useless Disguised in Drag Brutal Honesty BFG Toplessness from the Back Insistent Terminology Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Light Is Not Good Shout-Out Happily Married Face Death with Dignity Femme Fatale Exactly What It Says on the Tin Coming-of-Age Story Works Set in World War II The Stinger Bloody Hilarious Dark Action Girl Vomit Indiscretion Shot Even Evil Has Standards Camp Gay Danny Peary Cult Movies List The Chick Affably Evil Take That! Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Asshole Victim Really Gets Around Not Using the "Z" Word Overly Long Gag Contrived Coincidence Break the Cutie Cool Guns Rewatch Bonus Nice Hat Distracted by the Sexy Every Car Is a Pinto Call-Back Manic Pixie Dream Girl Homage Stock Footage Tranquil Fury Disney Death The Voiceless Truth in Television Cool Car Morality Pet Aside Glance The End... Or Is It? Decoy Protagonist Last-Name Basis Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Crucified Hero Shot Expository Hairstyle Change Here We Go Again! Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Once More, with Clarity! The Dog Bites Back The Brute Mundane Made Awesome Zombie Stories Interrupted Suicide Moment Killer Artistic License – Geography Chiaroscuro Gone Horribly Right Did Not Get the Girl Death by Sex Betty and Veronica No Name Given Back from the Dead Psycho for Hire The Stoner Villain Protagonist Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Outrun the Fireball Captain Ersatz Demoted to Extra As Long as It Sounds Foreign Does Not Like Shoes Batman Gambit Off with His Head! Action Girl Driven to Suicide Off-into-the-Distance Ending Superhero Chase Scene An Axe to Grind N-Word Privileges Cat Scare Flashback Adaptational Attractiveness Defiant to the End Anti-Hero Heel–Face Turn Race Lift Five-Man Band Handicapped Badass Book-Ends Fantastic Racism Call-Forward Kick the Dog Double-Meaning Title Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Silent Movie All Men Are Perverts Up to Eleven Posthumous Character Same Language Dub Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Greater-Scope Villain Drives Like Crazy Bowdlerise Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" One-Man Army Fatal Flaw Amoral Attorney Comically Missing the Point Does This Remind You of Anything? Adaptation Dye-Job Bloodless Carnage Due to the Dead Bar Brawl Wrong Genre Savvy Big Fancy House The Mole Despair Event Horizon Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Blatant Lies My Beloved Smother Ass Shove Spiteful Spit Pay Evil unto Evil Military and Warfare Films Dying Moment of Awesome Heterosexual Life-Partners Mistaken for Gay Totally Radical Belligerent Sexual Tension Psychological Thriller Romantic Comedy Extremely Short Timespan Neck Snap All for Nothing Obstructive Bureaucrat Recycled IN SPACE! Implacable Man Redshirt Army Gender Flip Improvised Weapon Villainous Breakdown Woman in White Translation Convention Gory Discretion Shot Beard of Evil