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