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