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More Tropes My Greatest Failure Eye Scream Up to Eleven Love at First Sight Crucified Hero Shot Abusive Parents Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Adaptational Badass Facial Horror No Celebrities Were Harmed Vacation Films The Dog Bites Back Evil Is Hammy Affectionate Parody Cat Fight Translation Convention An Axe to Grind Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Manly Tears Did Not Get the Girl Fake Shemp Training Montage From Bad to Worse Adaptational Attractiveness Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Back from the Dead Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold The Stoner Dramedy Canadian Movies Dissonant Serenity Alas, Poor Villain Star-Crossed Lovers The '90s Evil Brit folderlabel Heel Realization Leitmotif Aside Glance Butt-Monkey Hong Kong Films Smoking Is Cool Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Guy Lampshade Hanging Killed Mid-Sentence Bait-and-Switch Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? The Big Guy Dramatic Irony Drugs Are Bad Informed Ability Truth in Television Scare Chord Instant Death Bullet Ungrateful Bastard Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Refuge in Audacity Intergenerational Friendship Nice Hat Offscreen Moment of Awesome Dogged Nice Guy Beauty Is Never Tarnished Trailers Always Spoil Made of Iron Bunny-Ears Lawyer My God, What Have I Done? After the End Even Evil Has Standards Flashback Scenery Porn Four-Temperament Ensemble Slasher Smile Reckless Gun Usage Rated M for Manly Gorn Poor Communication Kills Small Name, Big Ego It Will Never Catch On Antagonist Title Rule of Funny Brainless Beauty Body Horror Shut Up, Hannibal! Fat Bastard Pyrrhic Victory As Long as It Sounds Foreign O.O.C. Is Serious Business Bittersweet Ending Expository Hairstyle Change Gone Horribly Right '80s Hair Department of Redundancy Department Fantasy Films Only One Name Woman Scorned The Reveal Spared by the Adaptation Foreshadowing Black Dude Dies First The Oner And Starring Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Hollywood Darkness Fish out of Water Evil Plan Punctuated! For! Emphasis! No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Slasher Movie And the Adventure Continues 20 Minutes into the Future Freeze-Frame Bonus Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Honor Before Reason "The Reason You Suck" Speech The Brute She Cleans Up Nicely Cain and Abel And I Must Scream The Bad Guy Wins Dirty Cop Unusual Euphemism A Date with Rosie Palms The Ghost Hate Sink Biopic For the Evulz Scary Black Man Ship Tease Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Disguised in Drag Fun with Acronyms Alliterative Name Sequel Hook Break the Haughty Cowboy Cop Insane Troll Logic Names to Run Away from Really Fast Plot Hole Redshirt Army Daylight Horror Film Noir Index Authority Equals Asskicking Didn't Think This Through Get Out! Dumb Blonde Man on Fire Let's Get Dangerous! Wham Shot Anti-Hero Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Slashed Throat Television Movie Index Face–Heel Turn My Beloved Smother Kick the Dog Big Brother Instinct Central Theme Wham Line Fourth Date Marriage Fan Disservice Broken Pedestal Card-Carrying Villain Ass Shove Adaptation Expansion Bond One-Liner Hoist by His Own Petard Bavarian Fire Drill Black Comedy Rape As the Good Book Says... Your Cheating Heart Dark Reprise Domestic Abuse I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Cool Guns Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Dark Action Girl Villain Opening Scene Epic Fail Gilligan Cut Gender Flip Pet the Dog Deadpan Snarker Heroic BSoD Calling the Old Man Out Dies Wide Open Dark Is Not Evil Composite Character Stock Footage I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Artistic License – Biology Pre-Mortem One-Liner Bare Your Midriff The Place Hope Spot Shell-Shocked Veteran From Nobody to Nightmare Book-Ends Developing Doomed Characters Affably Evil Spell My Name with an "S" Peek-a-Boo Corpse Older Than They Look Almost Kiss Black and Gray Morality Obfuscating Stupidity Badass Longcoat Vitriolic Best Buds Rule of Three Break the Cutie Genre Throwback Time Skip Really Gets Around Suspiciously Specific Denial Skewed Priorities Missing Mom Country Matters Japanese Films Scenery Gorn N-Word Privileges Be Careful What You Wish For Groin Attack Those Two Bad Guys It's All About Me War Is Hell Italian Films Arch-Enemy Grievous Bottley Harm Guns Akimbo Throwing Your Sword Always Works B-Movie Smug Snake Mistaken for Gay Awesome, but Impractical Lock and Load Montage Evil Is Petty Boom, Headshot! Last-Name Basis Mr. Exposition Drill Sergeant Nasty Humiliation Conga Evil Laugh The Sociopath Shirtless Scene Beard of Evil Unspoken Plan Guarantee Fainting May–December Romance Jerkass Artistic License – Geography Tap on the Head Mystery and Detective Films Drowning My Sorrows The Dreaded Big "NO!" You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Important Haircut Red Oni, Blue Oni Shout-Out Not What It Looks Like Genre Shift "Shaggy Dog" Story Character Development Rule of Symbolism Pay Evil unto Evil Red Right Hand Fanservice Eyepatch of Power Film Noir Kids Are Cruel Vampire Fiction Bound and Gagged Deus ex Machina Ripped from the Headlines Blood Knight Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Meet Cute Ascended Extra Our Zombies Are Different One-Word Title timeperiod Same Language Dub Taking You with Me Real Life Writes the Plot Storming the Castle Here We Go Again! 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All Girls Want Bad Boys Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Jerk with a Heart of Gold Accidental Misnaming Meaningful Name The Cavalry Eldritch Abomination Good Is Not Nice The Power of Love Drives Like Crazy Extremely Short Timespan Overly Long Gag Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The Film of the Book Bland-Name Product Tempting Fate NO INDOOR VOICE Super Strength Mad Scientist Left the Background Music On Playing Gertrude In Name Only Retired Badass Neck Snap Kill 'em All All There in the Script Chiaroscuro Rewatch Bonus An Aesop Gainax Ending Animal Motifs Insult Backfire Death by Adaptation Double Entendre Cat Scare Worthy Opponent The Ditz The Atoner Horror Films More Dakka Index of Film Westerns Room Full of Crazy Arc Words Friend to All Children Heterosexual Life-Partners Destination Defenestration Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Epilogue Pre-Asskicking One-Liner The '50s Manchild Paper-Thin Disguise Retcon Distracted by the Sexy Knife Nut Eureka Moment Improvised Weapon Broken Bird Hero Antagonist Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Properly Paranoid Early-Bird Cameo Exact Words Naked People Are Funny Framing Device Idiot Ball Depraved Bisexual The Mafia Romantic Comedy The Bully Catapult Nightmare Well-Intentioned Extremist Make It Look Like an Accident Would Hit a Girl A.I. Is a Crapshoot The Smart Guy Punch-Clock Villain Red Shirt Redemption Equals Death Outrun the Fireball BFG Heel–Face Turn Pragmatic Adaptation Death by Irony Stealth Pun Mama Bear French Films Adaptational Heroism Men Are the Expendable Gender Yandere Sir Swears-a-Lot Sacrificial Lion Only Known by Their Nickname Karmic Death Sports Stories Combat Pragmatist Superhero Ms. Fanservice Historical Hero Upgrade Match Cut Visual Pun Psychological Thriller Deal with the Devil Artistic License – Gun Safety Catch-Phrase Apocalypse How An Arm and a Leg Blood from the Mouth Disappeared Dad Adaptation Distillation Real Life Undying Loyalty Mundane Made Awesome What Happened to the Mouse? Rich Bitch Villain with Good Publicity Manic Pixie Dream Girl Documentary Posthumous Character Fingore Reasonable Authority Figure Jerk Jock Needs Wiki Magic Love Revenge Action Survivor Despair Event Horizon Driven to Suicide Flipping the Bird The Starscream What the Hell, Hero? 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Love Triangle Car Fu Fanservice Extra Our Vampires Are Different Villain Protagonist Big Fancy House Noodle Incident How We Got Here Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass The Lancer Take That! 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