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