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