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