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