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