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