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