Tropescilloscope: Covers Always Lie

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Epilogue Facial Horror Bottomless Magazines Undying Loyalty Developing Doomed Characters Badass Normal Ass Shove The Alleged Car Manchild Precision F-Strike Rated M for Manly No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Book-Ends Badass Longcoat Break the Cutie Those Two Bad Guys Ominous Latin Chanting Kill 'em All Costume Porn Everyone Has Standards Male Gaze Really Gets Around Implacable Man Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Red Oni, Blue Oni Disappeared Dad Fiery Redhead One Steve Limit Lock and Load Montage The Place Affectionate Parody Good Is Not Nice Body Horror Loophole Abuse Dramedy Demonic Possession Running Gag Laser-Guided Karma Bloodier and Gorier Overprotective Dad Big-Bad Ensemble Australian Movies The Stoic Random Events Plot Sequel Escalation Self-Deprecation The End... Or Is It? It Will Never Catch On In the Back Artistic License – Geography Pragmatic Adaptation Worthy Opponent Soft Glass Evil Sounds Deep Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Anti-Hero Leave the Camera Running Blatant Lies Took a Level in Jerkass Anti-Villain Shown Their Work Sir Swears-a-Lot Actually Pretty Funny Blackmail Crapsack World Abusive Parents Card-Carrying Villain Death Seeker Crazy-Prepared Heterosexual Life-Partners The Ghost Berserk Button Race Against the Clock Central Theme Shut Up, Hannibal! Last-Name Basis Fish out of Water The X of Y Revenge Empathic Environment Epic Movie Interrupted Suicide Humans Are Bastards Shower Scene Say My Name Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Pragmatic Villainy Bad Boss Damsel in Distress Your Cheating Heart Villain Opening Scene Same Language Dub No Celebrities Were Harmed Shout-Out Catapult Nightmare Punch-Clock Villain What Happened to the Mouse? 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Guy Framing Device Auto Erotica Fantasy Films Only Sane Man Green-Eyed Monster The Chick Film Series Hope Spot Ambiguous Disorder Groin Attack Decoy Protagonist The Ace All Just a Dream Crucified Hero Shot Ax-Crazy Storming the Castle Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Eureka Moment Broken Bird No-Sell NO INDOOR VOICE Small Name, Big Ego This Is Gonna Suck Anachronism Stew Chiaroscuro Action Genre Parental Neglect Shirtless Scene Author Avatar Failed a Spot Check The Bully Retirony Amusing Injuries Posthumous Character Pre-Mortem One-Liner Dogged Nice Guy Distracted by the Sexy Pretty in Mink He Who Fights Monsters Canon Foreigner Karma Houdini Large Ham The Un-Reveal The Alcoholic Villain Song Monumental Damage Chekhov's Skill In Name Only Amoral Attorney The Dragon The Power of Love Improbable Aiming Skills The Cameo As Himself Action Girl Hate Sink Fantastic Racism Slasher Movie Tap on the Head Crazy Jealous Guy Cloudcuckoolander Man on Fire Psycho for Hire