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