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