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