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