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