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