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