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