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