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