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