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