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