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