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