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