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