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