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