Tropescilloscope: Artistic License – Geography

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Handicapped Badass Face–Heel Turn Whole Plot Reference Daddy's Girl Fainting The Lancer "Shaggy Dog" Story Country Matters Make It Look Like an Accident Arranged Marriage Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Spiritual Successor There Is No Kill Like Overkill Credits Gag I Did What I Had to Do Silent Movie Artistic License – Military Creative Closing Credits The X of Y Comically Missing the Point Camera Abuse Mr. Exposition Adaptation Distillation Dirty Coward Happily Married folderlabel Call-Back Married to the Job Corrupt Corporate Executive Reasonable Authority Figure Hollywood Law Not So Different Break the Haughty Overly Long Gag Faking the Dead Intergenerational Friendship The Vamp Brother–Sister Incest Plucky Comic Relief Our Vampires Are Different Actor Allusion Heroes Want Redheads B-Movie The End... Or Is It? 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Enemy Mine Ship Tease Time Skip In the Back More Dakka Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Determinator Training Montage Artistic License – Physics Creepy Child Manipulative Bastard Badass Longcoat Drugs Are Bad Neck Snap Determinator aka: The Determinator Once More, with Clarity! 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