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