Tropescilloscope: Impaled with Extreme Prejudice

Supersized stabbing, often all-the-way-through. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Earn Your Happy Ending Vitriolic Best Buds Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Shell-Shocked Veteran Hollywood Darkness Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Meaningful Echo Demonic Possession Bunny-Ears Lawyer Only Known by Their Nickname Determinator Actor Allusion The Brute Soft Glass Drill Sergeant Nasty Red Eyes, Take Warning An Arm and a Leg Get Out! The Smart Guy It's All About Me Adaptational Badass Villain Song Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Jerkass Has a Point Here We Go Again! 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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Insane Troll Logic Older Than They Look She's Got Legs The Hero Dies The Oner Despair Event Horizon Fiery Redhead Spiteful Spit Serious Business Psychological Thriller Undying Loyalty Big Eater Reality Ensues Aluminum Christmas Trees Martial Arts Movie Posthumous Character Training Montage And the Adventure Continues Not Even Bothering with the Accent Reality Is Unrealistic Big Damn Heroes Camera Abuse Deconstruction Straight Gay Whole Plot Reference NO INDOOR VOICE Reasonable Authority Figure Properly Paranoid Russian Films Even Evil Has Loved Ones Vomit Discretion Shot Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Action Survivor Death by Sex Very Loosely Based on a True Story Karma Houdini Adaptational Villainy Victoria's Secret Compartment Disney Villain Death All Just a Dream My Greatest Failure As You Know What Happened to the Mouse? 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