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