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