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