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