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