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