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