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