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