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