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