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