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