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