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