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