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