Tromeo and Juliet

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Don't you remember the lesbians in the original?

Juliet: Parting is such sweet sorrow. Tromeo: Totally sucks.

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet... in modern day New York. And, you know, with a little artistic license taken (it's a Troma movie, after all). Written by a young James Gunn.

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Tropes used in Tromeo and Juliet include:

• A Date with Rosie Palms
• Artistic License: The ending is... a little different from the original.
• B-Movie
• Brother-Sister Incest
• Disaster Dominoes: Tybalt has his arm ripped while being dragged by a car, and then is decapitated landing on a moving truck's camp. The head lands on a family's car and causes it to crash spectacularly.
• Dysfunction Junction: Does it really need Lampshading?

Tromeo: Maybe both of us are warped.

• Fan Service: It's a Troma film, topless girls had to appear.
• Filth: The Capulets and Ques are porn mogul.s
• Fingore: A sex scene goes from "I love fingers" to cutting them with a machete.

The Cinema Snob: Looks like this was done when the writer learned foreshadowing, but not subtlety.

• Foreshadowing: "And then you put a little incest into the mix..." (see Incest Is Relative below)
  • There's plenty of cow references, when... well, see Half Human Hybrids below.
• Gag Penis: The first appearance of a certain popular Troma prop...
• Girl-On-Girl Is Hot
• Gorn
• Half Human Hybrids: Juliet's potion doesn't make her look dead, instead turns her into a cow monster.
• Incest Is Relative: Tromeo and Juliet end up being siblings.
• Not His Sled
• Parallel Porn Titles: Tromeo has a Porn Stash with Et Tu, Blow Job, The Merchant of Penis, As You Lick It, and Much To Do About Humping.
• Parental Incest
• Rasputinian Death: Cappy Capulet.
• Refuge in Audacity
• Torture Porn