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