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