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