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