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