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