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