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