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