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