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