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