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