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