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