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