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