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