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