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