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