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