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