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