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