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