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