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