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