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