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