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