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