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