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