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