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