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