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