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