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