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