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