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