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