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