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More Tropes Nothing Is Scarier The '70s Translation Convention Mundane Made Awesome Vomit Indiscretion Shot It's All About Me Disappeared Dad I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Cool Shades Curse Cut Short Femme Fatale Death by Irony Missing Mom Bi the Way Knight Templar Funny Foreigner Bunny-Ears Lawyer Knife Nut Five-Man Band Wrong Genre Savvy Dark Is Not Evil Diabolus ex Machina Foregone Conclusion Destination Defenestration Cain and Abel Aluminum Christmas Trees More Dakka Race Against the Clock Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Animal Motifs MacGuffin Kick the Son of a Bitch Italian Films Fiery Redhead "Awesome McCool" Name Shut Up, Hannibal! All for Nothing Despair Event Horizon Would Hurt a Child The Hero Love at First Sight Damsel in Distress Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome As Long as It Sounds Foreign Broken Bird Apocalypse How Fat Bastard Blood Knight Jerk Jock Ambiguous Ending One-Word Title Manly Tears Boom, Headshot! Papa Wolf Made of Iron May–December Romance Kids Are Cruel The Smart Guy No-Sell Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Smug Snake Chase Scene Tagline Does This Remind You of Anything? Revenge Framing Device Fantasy Films Evil Counterpart Married to the Job Early Installment Weirdness Blackmail Offscreen Moment of Awesome Cruel and Unusual Death Dark and Troubled Past Vacation Films The Mole Drill Sergeant Nasty Those Wacky Nazis Mad Scientist Meaningful Name Training Montage Historical Hero Upgrade You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Half the Man He Used to Be Even Evil Has Loved Ones Mind Screw Only a Flesh Wound Enemy Mine Villain with Good Publicity Jerk with a Heart of Gold How We Got Here Better to Die than Be Killed Extremely Short Timespan Bloody Hilarious Real Life An Arm and a Leg Artistic License – Geography Needs Wiki Magic Love Meaningful Echo Ship Tease Male Frontal Nudity Ragtag Bunch of Misfits The '50s Driven to Suicide "The Reason You Suck" Speech Hypocritical Humor The Lost Lenore Romantic False Lead Sealed Evil in a Can Back from the Dead In the Back Famous Last Words Tempting Fate Red Eyes, Take Warning Heroic Sacrifice Insane Troll Logic Time Skip Historical Villain Upgrade The Ace Toplessness from the Back Twist Ending Karmic Death British Films Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Dramedy Romantic Comedy The Faceless Tranquil Fury Redshirt Army War Is Hell Arranged Marriage Captain Obvious "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Accidental Murder Rule of Symbolism Stealth Hi/Bye Broken Pedestal Facial Horror World of Ham The Ghost Hoist by His Own Petard Visual Pun Amoral Attorney Action Prologue Take That! Riddle for the Ages Actor Allusion Anti-Villain Rasputinian Death Catapult Nightmare Take a Third Option Villain Opening Scene A.I. Is a Crapshoot Artistic License – Physics Wham Shot Hollywood Law Animal Title Index The Un-Reveal Even Evil Has Standards Badass Normal Never My Fault Hair-Trigger Temper Calling the Old Man Out Artistic License – Law Affably Evil Killed Mid-Sentence Depraved Bisexual Genre Savvy Ominous Latin Chanting Early-Bird Cameo As You Know Break the Cutie Reality Ensues The Film of the Book Heel Realization Rewatch Bonus Age Lift Bilingual Bonus Humiliation Conga Insult Backfire Scare Chord Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Outrun the Fireball Protagonist Title Actually Pretty Funny Parental Substitute Heel–Face Turn As Himself Badass Boast An Aesop Title Drop Deliberate Values Dissonance I Have Your Wife Bury Your Gays Demonic Possession Awesome, but Impractical The Casanova Coming-of-Age Story The Oner Cloudcuckoolander '80s Hair Brainless Beauty Works Set in World War II Good Is Not Nice folderlabel Blatant Lies Morality Pet A Father to His Men Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Evil-Detecting Dog You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Worthy Opponent Adaptation Name Change The End... Or Is It? Too Dumb to Live Beware the Nice Ones Authority Equals Asskicking All Just a Dream NO INDOOR VOICE Scary Black Man Foreshadowing Anguished Declaration of Love Moment Killer Rule of Three The Great Depression Tap on the Head The Smurfette Principle Pretty in Mink Only One Name Heterosexual Life-Partners Soft Glass Funny Background Event Recycled IN SPACE! Four-Temperament Ensemble Hong Kong Films Overprotective Dad Small Name, Big Ego The Remake Skewed Priorities The Atoner Japanese Films My Beloved Smother Epic Fail Vampire Fiction Shower Scene Cat Scare Poor Communication Kills Overly Long Gag The '60s Unusually Uninteresting Sight Ass Shove Gold Digger Break the Haughty Adult Fear Badass Grandpa Bait-and-Switch Foil Distracted by the Sexy Call-Forward Improvised Weapon Gainax Ending "Well Done, Son!" Guy Darker and Edgier Stepford Smiler Establishing Character Moment Let's Get Dangerous! 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Evil Plan Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Berserk Button Bond Villain Stupidity Hypocrite Flipping the Bird Creepy Child Pragmatic Adaptation Spared by the Adaptation Trailers Always Spoil All Girls Want Bad Boys Imagine Spot The Mafia Rule of Funny Adaptation Expansion Mythology Gag Straight Gay Genre Throwback The Ditz Hidden Depths Cool Guns Obfuscating Stupidity Cassandra Truth Manic Pixie Dream Girl Kubrick Stare Call-Back Never Trust a Trailer La Résistance Punch-Clock Villain Big Fancy House Character Development Hollywood Darkness Implacable Man Novelization All There in the Script Disney Villain Death Irony He Who Fights Monsters The Dog Bites Back No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Peek-a-Boo Corpse Final Girl Sadistic Choice Getting Crap Past the Radar Throwing Your Sword Always Works Artistic License – Gun Safety Did Not Get the Girl Never Found the Body Off-into-the-Distance Ending Fanservice Extra Kill 'em All Daddy's Girl The Vamp Central Theme Real Life Writes the Plot Breaking the Fourth Wall Very Loosely Based on a True Story Batman Gambit Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Villainous Breakdown Fatal Flaw Men Are the Expendable Gender Paper-Thin Disguise Running Gag Monumental Damage Horror Comedy Offscreen Teleportation Ms. Fanservice Flashback Maybe Ever After Guns Akimbo Product Placement Homage Reasonable Authority Figure Politically Incorrect Villain It's Personal Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Death of a Child Brother–Sister Incest Costume Porn Gratuitous English Naïve Newcomer Stealth Pun Plot Hole Artistic License – Military Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! And I Must Scream Failed a Spot Check Cool Old Guy Improbable Aiming Skills Faking the Dead Betty and Veronica Attempted Rape 20 Minutes into the Future Big Brother Instinct It Will Never Catch On Demoted to Extra The Voiceless Car Fu Abusive Parents O.O.C. 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Your Head A-Splode Sci-Fi Horror Neck Lift Fun with Acronyms Unreliable Narrator Zombie Stories Children Are Innocent Beard of Evil Film Noir Dogged Nice Guy Badass Longcoat Big Bad Duumvirate Evil Laugh Random Events Plot Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The Alleged Car Screw the Money, I Have Rules! No-Holds-Barred Beatdown The Chick Combat Pragmatist Parental Abandonment Mugging the Monster Film Noir Index The Bully Naked People Are Funny Bad "Bad Acting" True Companions Drives Like Crazy Green-Eyed Monster Karma Houdini Names to Run Away from Really Fast Empathic Environment Sassy Black Woman Action Girl Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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She's Got Legs Jump Scare Match Cut Leaning on the Fourth Wall Cool Old Lady Line-of-Sight Name Dissonant Serenity Domestic Abuse Asshole Victim Evil vs. Evil Casting Gag Spell My Name with an "S" The Brute Evil Is Petty Eureka Moment Adaptational Attractiveness Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Nice Hat Off with His Head! Darkest Hour Alas, Poor Villain Fate Worse than Death Heroes Want Redheads Intergenerational Friendship Australian Movies Earn Your Happy Ending Canon Foreigner Defrosting Ice Queen Pimped-Out Dress Scenery Gorn Re-Cut Dull Surprise No OSHA Compliance Russian Films Room Full of Crazy Mighty Whitey Friend to All Children Ambiguous Disorder The Cavalry Dual Wielding No Ending Every Car Is a Pinto For Want of a Nail Lock and Load Montage Dramatic Irony Rated M for Manly The Musical Ripped from the Headlines Celebrity Paradox Alpha Bitch What the Hell, Hero? Covers Always Lie Air-Vent Passageway Wounded Gazelle Gambit Crucified Hero Shot Bowdlerise The Hero Dies Say My Name Villain Ball Punctuated! For! Emphasis! The '80s Black Comedy Annoying Younger Sibling Roaring Rampage of Revenge Retcon Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Adorkable Jitter Cam Biopic Shirtless Scene Madness Mantra From Bad to Worse A Minor Kidroduction Sports Stories Police are Useless Important Haircut Spiteful Spit I Did What I Had to Do You Have Failed Me Unwitting Instigator of Doom Lampshade Hanging Not So Stoic My God, What Have I Done? Continuity Nod She Cleans Up Nicely Improbable Weapon User Hell Is That Noise Stock Footage Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Large Ham Aside Glance Reality Is Unrealistic Pre-Mortem One-Liner Suspiciously Similar Substitute Ironic Echo Bolivian Army Ending And the Adventure Continues Idiot Ball German Films Race Lift Those Two Guys Sequel Escalation I Need a Freaking Drink Fake Shemp Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Bar Brawl Properly Paranoid Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Mystery and Detective Films Death Glare Non-Indicative Name Spiritual Successor Fish out of Water The Alcoholic Wicked Cultured Bottomless Magazines Dumb Blonde Deal with the Devil Fatal Family Photo Heroic BSoD Logo Joke Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Token Minority The Reveal Downer Ending Not So Above It All Self-Deprecation Anyone Can Die Loads and Loads of Characters Mr. Fanservice Bare Your Midriff Oh, Crap! Fainting Cluster F-Bomb Shown Their Work Villain Song Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Everyone Has Standards Big Bad Dying Moment of Awesome Star-Crossed Lovers Ax-Crazy Reality Has No Subtitles The Stinger Light Is Not Good Posthumous Character The Quiet One It Can Think Christmas Movies Index Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Informed Ability The Place Crazy-Prepared The Load Antagonist Title Silence Is Golden Kick the Dog Face Death with Dignity Hero Antagonist Obstructive Bureaucrat Humans Are Bastards Mooks N-Word Privileges Shipper on Deck Adaptational Badass Make It Look Like an Accident The Bad Guy Wins Big "NO!" 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Unresolved Sexual Tension Disney Death Documentary The Starscream Belligerent Sexual Tension Creator Cameo Hope Spot Interrupted Suicide