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