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