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