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