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