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