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