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