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