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