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