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