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