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