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