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