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