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