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