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