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