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