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