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