Tropescilloscope: Police Brutality

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Is a Crapshoot The Quiet One Extremely Short Timespan Naked People Are Funny Air-Vent Passageway Knife Nut Heroic Sacrifice Adaptation Distillation Catapult Nightmare Deconstruction Butt-Monkey Spared by the Adaptation Becoming the Mask Catch-Phrase Guile Hero Training Montage Cool Guns Sports Stories Arc Words A God Am I Let's Get Dangerous! Gratuitous English Deliberate Values Dissonance You Have Failed Me Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Genre Shift Boom, Headshot! Anachronic Order Curse Cut Short Green-Eyed Monster Canadian Movies Villain with Good Publicity Dumb Blonde Irony Dressing as the Enemy Good Is Not Nice Every Car Is a Pinto Military and Warfare Films Pimped-Out Dress Pre-Mortem One-Liner Kick the Dog O.O.C. Is Serious Business Dirty Coward Documentary Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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'80s Hair Lampshade Hanging Deliberately Monochrome Spell My Name with an "S" Casting Gag The '90s Honor Before Reason Children Are Innocent B-Movie An Axe to Grind Accidental Murder Never My Fault Bloodless Carnage Meaningful Background Event Heel–Face Turn Beta Couple As Himself Sir Swears-a-Lot Bottomless Magazines Vacation Films Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Fun with Acronyms Distracted by the Sexy Neck Snap Took a Level in Jerkass Grievous Bottley Harm Action Prologue The Musical Fantastic Racism Romantic False Lead Wrong Genre Savvy Getting Crap Past the Radar Major Injury Underreaction Stylistic Suck Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Straight Gay Aluminum Christmas Trees Properly Paranoid Laser-Guided Karma What the Hell, Hero? Noodle Incident Card-Carrying Villain The Faceless Homage Bi the Way Chase Scene Together in Death Abusive Parents Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Death of a Child Smoking Is Cool Love at First Sight Break the Haughty Disproportionate Retribution The Bad Guy Wins Big Brother Instinct Does This Remind You of Anything? Adapted Out Pyrrhic Victory Car Fu Bullying a Dragon Leave the Camera Running Shown Their Work Hollywood Darkness Canon Foreigner No Ending German Films Mystery and Detective Films Corpsing Overly Long Gag Wham Shot The Load Cruel and Unusual Death Body Horror Stepford Smiler Reckless Gun Usage Fourth Date Marriage Costume Porn Cold-Blooded Torture Malevolent Masked Men Face–Heel Turn Ambiguous Disorder Public Domain Feature Films Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Evil Is Hammy Grey and Gray Morality Eyepatch of Power Yandere Big Bad Fainting Real Life Writes the Plot Parental Neglect Adaptation Dye-Job Disappeared Dad Punny Name War Is Hell Pragmatic Adaptation In the Back Cat Scare Offscreen Teleportation Black Dude Dies First Creator Cameo Combat Pragmatist Thriller Department of Redundancy Department Film Noir Sequel Escalation Disney Death Does Not Like Shoes Dark Reprise Scenery Gorn Award-Bait Song Obstructive Bureaucrat Fish out of Water Refuge in Audacity The Ace folderlabel Author Avatar Broken Pedestal Red Herring Rule of Cool Slasher Smile Antagonist Title Evil-Detecting Dog Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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