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