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