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