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