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