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