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