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