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