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