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