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