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