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