Tropescilloscope: Happily Married

A genuinely successful marriage. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Unspoken Plan Guarantee No-Sell Driven to Suicide Older Than They Look Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Pimped-Out Dress Evil Plan Video Credits Enemy Mine Heel Realization Corrupt Corporate Executive The Faceless Stylistic Suck Slasher Smile Death of a Child Dark Action Girl Call-Back Badass in a Nice Suit Aluminum Christmas Trees Accidental Misnaming Skewed Priorities Dies Wide Open As Long as It Sounds Foreign Bond Villain Stupidity Tap on the Head Never Trust a Trailer The Casanova A God Am I World of Ham Gender Flip Vacation Films The Power of Love Beauty Is Never Tarnished Break the Haughty Canadian Movies Broken Pedestal No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Asshole Victim Even Evil Has Standards Grievous Bottley Harm How We Got Here Ax-Crazy Scary Black Man Cool Old Guy Blood Knight Re-Cut Sassy Black Woman Ascended Extra Paper-Thin Disguise Bring My Brown Pants Broken Bird Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Celebrity Paradox Meet Cute Chase Scene N-Word Privileges "Shaggy Dog" Story Anachronic Order Biopic Vitriolic Best Buds Bilingual Bonus The Film of the Book Well-Intentioned Extremist From Bad to Worse Honor Before Reason Face–Heel Turn Expository Hairstyle Change Didn't Think This Through Deconstruction Bunny-Ears Lawyer The Musical Dramatic Gun Cock Woman Scorned Soft Glass Ironic Echo Rich Bitch Rape as Drama Evil Is Petty Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Retcon Curse Cut Short The Stinger B-Movie Precision F-Strike The Sociopath Neck Lift Bland-Name Product Missing Mom Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Together in Death The Alcoholic Parental Neglect All There in the Manual Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Gratuitous English Calling the Old Man Out Artistic License – Gun Safety Mighty Whitey Up to Eleven Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Ambiguously Gay All Just a Dream Fan Disservice Casting Gag Redemption Equals Death Tagline Aside Glance Early Installment Weirdness Body Horror Psychopathic Manchild Brainless Beauty Femme Fatale Insane Troll Logic Too Dumb to Live Pretty Little Headshots True Companions Film Noir Idiot Ball Jerkass Has a Point O.O.C. Is Serious Business Air-Vent Passageway Diabolus ex Machina Does This Remind You of Anything? 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The Lost Lenore Fiery Redhead Heroic Sacrifice Big Bad Show Within a Show Flashback Naked People Are Funny folderlabel Would Hit a Girl Reckless Gun Usage Captain Obvious The Chessmaster Russian Films Villain Protagonist The Dragon Mugging the Monster Bloodless Carnage Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Noodle Incident Brother–Sister Incest Sequel Hook Taking You with Me Early-Bird Cameo Animated Credits Opening Funny Background Event Cold-Blooded Torture Improvised Weapon Sports Stories Offscreen Teleportation Villain Opening Scene Soundtrack Dissonance Intrepid Reporter My God, What Have I Done? "Well Done, Son!" Guy Parental Substitute Death by Adaptation Shipper on Deck Dark Is Not Evil Anti-Villain Film Noir Index Bowdlerise The Voiceless Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Cat Scare Children Are Innocent Dogged Nice Guy Country Matters I Did What I Had to Do Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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