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