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