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More Tropes Anguished Declaration of Love Eureka Moment The Power of Love Slasher Smile Deadpan Snarker Bound and Gagged timeperiod Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Reveal Belligerent Sexual Tension Papa Wolf Kubrick Stare Cruel and Unusual Death Dogged Nice Guy Mad Scientist Dramedy Parental Abandonment '80s Hair Drowning My Sorrows The End... Or Is It? Hidden Depths Butt-Monkey The Smurfette Principle For the Evulz Dual Wielding Based on a True Story And the Adventure Continues German Films Sexy Discretion Shot Implacable Man Pay Evil unto Evil Laser-Guided Karma Stylistic Suck Police Brutality Names to Run Away from Really Fast Reasonable Authority Figure Artistic License – Biology Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Reckless Gun Usage Action Survivor Idiot Ball Big Bad Costume Porn Sir Swears-a-Lot You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Informed Ability Married to the Job You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Historical-Domain Character Offscreen Moment of Awesome Soundtrack Dissonance Fourth Date Marriage I Have Your Wife May–December Romance An Aesop Handicapped Badass Eiffel Tower Effect Retired Badass Adaptation Distillation Important Haircut What the Hell, Hero? Rule of Three Broken Bird Comically Missing the Point Captain Ersatz Brutal Honesty Domestic Abuse No Celebrities Were Harmed Video Credits Undying Loyalty Love Triangle Psychological Thriller Pre-Asskicking One-Liner All Men Are Perverts Big-Bad Ensemble Punch-Clock Villain Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Taking the Bullet Fake Shemp Morality Pet Hooker with a Heart of Gold Sadistic Choice The Remake Friend to All Children Demoted to Extra Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Large Ham Scenery Gorn Grievous Bottley Harm Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Didn't Think This Through Dirty Cop A Father to His Men Wicked Cultured No Antagonist Unusual Euphemism Up to Eleven All Girls Want Bad Boys Action Genre Developing Doomed Characters Lighter and Softer Real Life Writes the Plot Cool Old Guy Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Plucky Comic Relief Tranquil Fury Meaningful Echo Rule of Cool Eldritch Abomination What You Are in the Dark Death Seeker In the Back Nice Hat Only Known by Their Nickname Sequel Escalation Italian Films Unreliable Narrator Pragmatic Villainy Abusive Parents Jump Scare Does Not Like Shoes Psycho for Hire Reality Has No Subtitles Dark Reprise Nice Guy Music Stories Gone Horribly Right Empathic Environment Genre Throwback Those Two Bad Guys Time Skip Silent Movie Fantastic Racism Parental Neglect One-Word Title Pretty Little Headshots Very Loosely Based on a True Story Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? The Big Guy Fainting Ghost Fiction Took a Level in Badass Gender Flip Action Prologue Boom, Headshot! Wham Shot Bloodier and Gorier Big "NO!" Big Eater Heel–Face Turn Rated M for Manly Animated Credits Opening The Voiceless Chewing the Scenery Anachronic Order Make It Look Like an Accident Oh, Crap! The Bully Vitriolic Best Buds Badass Longcoat The Stoner Asshole Victim Disney Villain Death Fatal Flaw Well-Intentioned Extremist Arc Words Malevolent Masked Men Death by Sex Eyepatch of Power Guns Akimbo Science Fiction Films Beauty Is Never Tarnished Spanner in the Works Stuff Blowing Up Adaptation Expansion Adapted Out The Lancer British Films Celebrity Paradox Artistic License – History All for Nothing Dramatic Irony Naked People Are Funny Fat Bastard Fun with Acronyms Everyone Has Standards Broken Pedestal Not What It Looks Like The Atoner Taking You with Me Epic Fail N-Word Privileges Sequel Hook Overly Long Gag An Arm and a Leg From Nobody to Nightmare Chekhov's Gun The '70s Bilingual Bonus Star-Crossed Lovers "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Blood Knight Brainless Beauty After the End Gold Digger Never Found the Body Animal Title Index Corpsing Determinator aka: The Determinator Calling the Old Man Out Killed Mid-Sentence Manchild Crucified Hero Shot Retcon Chiaroscuro Works Set in World War II Setting Update Small Name, Big Ego Central Theme Dutch Angle I Did What I Had to Do Betty and Veronica Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Continuity Nod Villainous Breakdown Hollywood Law Evil Plan Mythology Gag Catapult Nightmare Drugs Are Bad O.O.C. Is Serious Business Breaking the Fourth Wall Black Comedy Rape Fiery Redhead It's All About Me Red Oni, Blue Oni The Mole Adaptational Heroism Rasputinian Death Meaningful Name Be Careful What You Wish For Adorkable Villain Opening Scene Cain and Abel Tagline Camp Gay The '50s Children Are Innocent Reality Is Unrealistic Coming-of-Age Story Ungrateful Bastard "Well Done, Son!" Guy Does This Remind You of Anything? My Greatest Failure Token Minority Hoist by His Own Petard Rousing Speech Unresolved Sexual Tension Establishing Character Moment Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Double-Meaning Title Bowdlerise Eagleland There Is No Kill Like Overkill Villain Protagonist Award-Bait Song Spiritual Successor True Companions Title Drop Black Best Friend Reality Ensues Big Damn Heroes Country Matters The Brute As Long as It Sounds Foreign One Steve Limit The Alcoholic Creative Closing Credits The '90s Truth in Television Off-into-the-Distance Ending My Beloved Smother Laughing Mad Novelization Fate Worse than Death Red Right Hand Arranged Marriage Made of Iron Suspiciously Specific Denial Depraved Bisexual Kill It with Fire Freeze-Frame Bonus Homage Neck Snap Faux Affably Evil Anti-Hero Scary Black Man Suspiciously Similar Substitute Lock and Load Montage Covers Always Lie Ambiguous Ending Bland-Name Product Would Hit a Girl Tempting Fate Stealth Hi/Bye Refuge in Audacity Shown Their Work Not Even Bothering with the Accent Spell My Name with an "S" Hero Antagonist Suddenly SHOUTING! Ominous Latin Chanting Soft Glass Vacation Films The Ditz Attempted Rape Happily Married Cluster F-Bomb Auto Erotica Mama Bear Ship Tease "Shaggy Dog" Story She Cleans Up Nicely Diabolus ex Machina Fire-Forged Friends Romantic Comedy Say My Name Men Are the Expendable Gender Hair-Trigger Temper Alas, Poor Villain Authority Equals Asskicking The Bad Guy Wins The Film of the Book Mistaken for Gay Death Glare You Have Failed Me Shipper on Deck Evil Laugh I'm a Humanitarian Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Insult Backfire The Starscream Public Domain Feature Films Big Brother Instinct Meet Cute Genre Savvy Twist Ending Fan Disservice Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor The Load Extreme Doormat Disproportionate Retribution Destination Defenestration Armor-Piercing Question Fantasy Films Anyone Can Die Sanity Slippage In Medias Res No Name Given Catch-Phrase Superhero Posthumous Character No OSHA Compliance Dramatic Gun Cock Curb-Stomp Battle Cassandra Truth Adaptation Dye-Job Lampshade Hanging Framing Device Properly Paranoid Dumb Blonde Aside Glance Cat Fight Humans Are Bastards Really Gets Around Not Quite Dead Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Manipulative Bastard All There in the Manual Badass Bookworm The Ace The Place Zombie Stories Slashed Throat "Awesome McCool" Name Actor Allusion Translation Convention Those Two Guys How We Got Here Peek-a-Boo Corpse Groin Attack Rule of Funny Abhorrent Admirer Captain Obvious Canon Foreigner Too Dumb to Live Room Full of Crazy Shut Up, Hannibal! Downer Ending Light Is Not Good Bunny-Ears Lawyer Big Applesauce Dropped a Bridge on Him Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Protagonist Title Precision F-Strike Made of Explodium Expy Bolivian Army Ending Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Tap on the Head And I Must Scream Anti-Villain Not So Stoic Pragmatic Adaptation Worthy Opponent Drives Like Crazy Evil Sounds Deep Shower Scene All There in the Script Faking the Dead The Chessmaster Unusually Uninteresting Sight Crazy-Prepared Artistic License – Physics Punny Name The Musical The Great Depression Exactly What It Says on the Tin Cool Shades Affectionate Parody Evil Brit The Quiet One Outrun the Fireball Vomit Indiscretion Shot In Name Only Earn Your Happy Ending Early-Bird Cameo Motor Mouth Batman Gambit Dissonant Serenity Air-Vent Passageway Deus ex Machina Super Strength Artistic License – Law Recycled IN SPACE! Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Meaningful Background Event Ambiguous Disorder Daylight Horror Fanservice Extra Hell Is That Noise Poor Communication Kills Slasher Movie Bi the Way Insistent Terminology Ascended Extra The Alleged Car Woman in White Hate Sink Artistic License – Gun Safety Film Noir Manly Tears The Mafia Stealth Pun Jerk with a Heart of Gold Historical Villain Upgrade I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Heroes Want Redheads Crazy Jealous Guy Politically Incorrect Villain Missing Mom Adults Are Useless He Who Fights Monsters Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Big Bad Duumvirate Closed Circle Narrator Dirty Old Man Throwing Your Sword Always Works A Date with Rosie Palms For Want of a Nail The Vamp Horror Films Slap-Slap-Kiss Dies Wide Open He Knows Too Much Dwindling Party Agony of the Feet Random Events Plot The Dog Bites Back Japanese Films Only in It for the Money Mood Whiplash Evil Is Petty Madness Mantra Disappeared Dad Leave the Camera Running Sci-Fi Horror Famous Last Words Retirony Bring My Brown Pants Take That! Sinister Minister Bury Your Gays Beware the Nice Ones The Oner Training Montage Adaptational Badass Get Out! Due to the Dead Jerk Jock Double Entendre My God, What Have I Done? NO INDOOR VOICE Cool Guns Man on Fire Australian Movies Only Sane Man Not So Different The Dreaded Hypocritical Humor Half the Man He Used to Be The Casanova Our Zombies Are Different War Is Hell Even Evil Has Standards 20 Minutes into the Future "The Reason You Suck" Speech Face Death with Dignity Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Chekhov's Skill The Un-Reveal Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Fatal Family Photo Overprotective Dad Flashback Crapsack World Badass Boast Extremely Short Timespan Loads and Loads of Characters Silence Is Golden Contrived Coincidence Villain with Good Publicity Death by Irony Wrong Genre Savvy Last-Name Basis Demonic Possession Playing Gertrude The Cavalry Car Fu Genre Shift Line-of-Sight Name Guile Hero Humiliation Conga Moment Killer Improbable Aiming Skills Black Dude Dies First Daddy's Girl Apocalypse How Dull Surprise Irony Eye Scream Ms. Fanservice Put on a Bus Easily Forgiven Adaptational Attractiveness Leitmotif Trailers Always Spoil Smug Snake Amusing Injuries Determinator Decoy Protagonist Pimped-Out Dress Evil vs. Evil Ironic Echo Funny Background Event Anachronism Stew Action Girl Christmas Movies Index Red Shirt Camera Abuse MacGuffin Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Enemy Mine Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The X of Y folderlabel Maybe Ever After Creator Cameo Neck Lift Mooks Hope Spot Our Vampires Are Different Alpha Bitch Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Bullying a Dragon French Films Fingore Advertised Extra Cool Car As the Good Book Says... Shirtless Scene Danny Peary Cult Movies List Bare Your Midriff Epic Movie Blood from the Mouth Real Life Kick the Son of a Bitch Serious Business Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Bar Brawl All Just a Dream Re-Cut Corrupt Corporate Executive Jerkass Has a Point No Ending As You Know Police are Useless Dark and Troubled Past Major Injury Underreaction Sacrificial Lion Blatant Lies Jerkass Only a Flesh Wound Sports Stories Mugging the Monster Older Than They Look Shout-Out Beta Couple Getting Crap Past the Radar Intrepid Reporter Riddle for the Ages Foil Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Whole Plot Reference Totally Radical She's Got Legs Vomit Discretion Shot Never Trust a Trailer BFG Brother–Sister Incest One-Man Army Imagine Spot Improvised Weapon Annoying Younger Sibling Yandere Alliterative Name Fish out of Water Freudian Excuse Hypocrite Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Race Against the Clock Parental Substitute The Stoic Pretty in Mink Insane Troll Logic Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Redemption Equals Death Those Wacky Nazis Love at First Sight Ass Shove Four-Temperament Ensemble Big Fancy House Cold-Blooded Torture Cloudcuckoolander Male Frontal Nudity Combat Pragmatist Here We Go Again! Knife Nut Green-Eyed Monster Left the Background Music On Artistic License – Geography Naïve Newcomer A.I. Is a Crapshoot Blackmail Martial Arts Movie Funny Foreigner Self-Deprecation Despair Event Horizon Off with His Head! No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Darker and Edgier Woman Scorned As Himself Bloody Hilarious Immune to Bullets Conspicuous CG Scenery Porn Rich Bitch Historical Hero Upgrade Ambiguously Gay Mexican Standoff Nothing Is Scarier Foregone Conclusion Babies Ever After Death of a Child Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Bittersweet Ending Defrosting Ice Queen Curse Cut Short Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Brick Joke No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Mighty Whitey Once More, with Clarity! Villain Ball Frame-Up Obstructive Bureaucrat Book-Ends Market-Based Title Aluminum Christmas Trees Karma Houdini Cowboy Cop Spared by the Adaptation It's Personal Visual Pun Took a Level in Jerkass You Killed My Father Rape as Drama More Dakka Badass in a Nice Suit Biopic Never My Fault Beard of Evil Flipping the Bird Badass Grandpa Knight Templar It Can Think Index of Film Westerns Evil-Detecting Dog Chase Scene Back from the Dead The Smart Guy Grey and Gray Morality Match Cut Sealed Evil in a Can Adaptation Name Change Age Lift The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Amoral Attorney Distracted by the Sexy Victoria's Secret Compartment Needs Wiki Magic Love Hong Kong Films Pre-Mortem One-Liner Darkest Hour Wham Line Toplessness from the Back Card-Carrying Villain Documentary Bond One-Liner Heroic Sacrifice Bait-and-Switch Together in Death Evil Cannot Comprehend Good I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Author Appeal A God Am I Pyrrhic Victory Bald of Evil Plot Hole Only One Name Mr. Fanservice Revenge Film Series Composite Character Leaning on the Fourth Wall Cool Old Lady Foreshadowing Call-Forward Awesome, but Impractical Bad Boss The Ghost Actually Pretty Funny Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Hollywood Darkness Dark Action Girl B-Movie Logo Joke Gory Discretion Shot Gainax Ending Ripped from the Headlines This Is Gonna Suck I Need a Freaking Drink Wretched Hive Offscreen Teleportation Kids Are Cruel Early Installment Weirdness Romantic False Lead Television Movie Index Femme Fatale Credits Gag Did Not Get the Girl From Bad to Worse Expository Hairstyle Change Interrupted Suicide Not So Above It All Adaptational Villainy Horror Comedy Call-Back Scare Chord A Minor Kidroduction The Hero Henpecked Husband Bottomless Magazines Male Gaze Gilligan Cut Black and Gray Morality Affably Evil Heel Realization The '60s Shell-Shocked Veteran Canadian Movies Bavarian Fire Drill Ax-Crazy Red Eyes, Take Warning Mercy Kill Product Placement Dirty Coward Monumental Damage Obviously Evil The Lost Lenore Chekhov's Gunman Russian Films Accidental Misnaming Drill Sergeant Nasty Pet the Dog The Hero Dies It Will Never Catch On Gorn Badass Normal Honor Before Reason Rule of Symbolism Stepford Smiler Bad "Bad Acting" The Dragon The '80s Artistic License – Military The Sociopath Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Have a Gay Old Time Black Comedy Accidental Murder Thriller Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Non-Indicative Name Dressing as the Enemy Your Cheating Heart Adult Fear And Starring Fanservice Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Deconstruction Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Your Head A-Splode Military and Warfare Films No-Sell Mr. Exposition Broken Aesop Roaring Rampage of Revenge Dark Is Not Evil Kill 'em All Casting Gag Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Disney Death Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Show Within a Show Exact Words Break the Haughty Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Spiteful Spit Author Avatar The Cameo Stock Footage Dying Moment of Awesome Becoming the Mask Film Noir Index Heroic BSoD Almost Kiss Bond Villain Stupidity Improbable Weapon User Unspoken Plan Guarantee Evil Is Hammy Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Obfuscating Stupidity Wounded Gazelle Gambit Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Good Is Not Nice Instant Death Bullet Deliberately Monochrome Race Lift Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Damsel in Distress Rewatch Bonus Creepy Child Bloodless Carnage Better to Die than Be Killed What Happened to the Mouse? The Faceless Noodle Incident Five-Man Band Straight Gay Driven to Suicide Loophole Abuse The Chick Animal Motifs Mind Screw Manic Pixie Dream Girl World of Ham Every Car Is a Pinto Shoot the Shaggy Dog Greater-Scope Villain Death by Adaptation Mystery and Detective Films Same Language Dub Defiant to the End Villain Song Break the Cutie Cat Scare Facial Horror Arch-Enemy Final Girl Not Using the "Z" Word Hero of Another Story An Axe to Grind Kick the Dog Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Evil Counterpart Even Evil Has Loved Ones Skewed Priorities Disguised in Drag Antagonist Title Redshirt Army Department of Redundancy Department Serial Killer Heterosexual Life-Partners Karmic Death Psychopathic Manchild La Résistance Paper-Thin Disguise Stalker with a Crush Would Hurt a Child Failed a Spot Check Jitter Cam Word of God Historical In-Joke Parental Incest Character Development Sole Survivor Let's Get Dangerous! Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Body Horror Deliberate Values Dissonance Berserk Button Vampire Fiction Mundane Made Awesome Intergenerational Friendship Sassy Black Woman Storming the Castle Red Herring Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Face–Heel Turn Take a Third Option Running Gag The Stinger Deal with the Devil Smoking Is Cool Gratuitous English