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