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