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