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