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