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