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