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