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