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