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