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