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