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