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