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