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