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