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