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