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