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