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