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