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