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