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