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