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