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