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