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More Tropes Retired Badass Central Theme Cool Guns Final Girl Sealed Evil in a Can Love at First Sight It's Personal Brother–Sister Incest Suspiciously Specific Denial Abusive Parents Fourth Date Marriage My Beloved Smother Stock Footage Rated M for Manly Line-of-Sight Name Light Is Not Good Gory Discretion Shot Mundane Made Awesome Alpha Bitch Mooks Throwing Your Sword Always Works Retcon No Antagonist Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Faux Affably Evil Foregone Conclusion Daddy's Girl Air-Vent Passageway Reality Is Unrealistic Demonic Possession Gorn Posthumous Character Jerk Jock Historical Villain Upgrade Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Be Careful What You Wish For Maybe Ever After As the Good Book Says... 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They Really Do Love Each Other Pimped-Out Dress The Place Wretched Hive Casting Gag Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Dropped a Bridge on Him Damsel in Distress The Hero Dies Psycho for Hire Romantic False Lead Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Bi the Way NO INDOOR VOICE Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Bad Guy Wins Hollywood Darkness Apocalypse How Aluminum Christmas Trees Sequel Hook Jerkass Has a Point Brainless Beauty N-Word Privileges Off-into-the-Distance Ending Villain Opening Scene Advertised Extra Would Hurt a Child Man on Fire Genre Throwback Gold Digger Chewing the Scenery Gone Horribly Right Stealth Hi/Bye Police Brutality Adaptation Distillation Dissonant Serenity Artistic License – Military Important Haircut Red Herring Our Zombies Are Different Greater-Scope Villain Dramatic Irony The Bully Henpecked Husband It Can Think Off with His Head! Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Captain Obvious '80s Hair Alas, Poor Villain Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Children Are Innocent Defiant to the End Reality Has No Subtitles Crazy Jealous Guy The Chick Red Right Hand Broken Bird Car Fu Adapted Out Evil Counterpart Evil vs. Evil More Dakka Badass Boast Easily Forgiven Costume Porn Recycled IN SPACE! And the Adventure Continues Deadpan Snarker Break the Haughty Lampshade Hanging Daylight Horror Even Evil Has Loved Ones Lighter and Softer Eyepatch of Power Arranged Marriage Fanservice Extra Here We Go Again! Sole Survivor Big Applesauce Straight Gay Hero of Another Story Double-Meaning Title Reality Ensues Anachronism Stew Action Girl Zombie Stories Batman Gambit Creative Closing Credits Artistic License – History Evil Brit Every Car Is a Pinto One-Man Army Nothing Is Scarier Chekhov's Gunman And I Must Scream Meaningful Background Event It Will Never Catch On Those Wacky Nazis Hair-Trigger Temper Aside Glance Not So Different Eagleland The Hero War Is Hell Bilingual Bonus Morality Pet Knight Templar Mr. Exposition Ambiguous Disorder A.I. Is a Crapshoot Mighty Whitey Auto Erotica Fantasy Films Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Adaptational Badass Martial Arts Movie Mystery and Detective Films Artistic License – Geography Eureka Moment Babies Ever After Hoist by His Own Petard Karma Houdini In Medias Res Tranquil Fury Fingore The Smurfette Principle Jitter Cam Covers Always Lie The Vamp Evil Is Hammy Sir Swears-a-Lot Amusing Injuries Thriller Precision F-Strike Stepford Smiler Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Rewatch Bonus Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Drowning My Sorrows Offscreen Moment of Awesome Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Time Skip Pretty Little Headshots Sequel Escalation You Have Failed Me Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Not Quite Dead Hero Antagonist Deliberate Values Dissonance Genre Shift Offscreen Teleportation The Starscream Undying Loyalty Evil Laugh Card-Carrying Villain Bring My Brown Pants An Arm and a Leg A Minor Kidroduction Country Matters Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Chase Scene Disappeared Dad Flashback Early-Bird Cameo The Stoner Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Male Frontal Nudity Breaking the Fourth Wall One Steve Limit No Ending Superhero Bad "Bad Acting" Death of a Child Those Two Guys Ironic Echo Broken Aesop Karmic Death Truth in Television Depraved Bisexual Really Gets Around Cool Car Gainax Ending Never Trust a Trailer Creator Cameo Disproportionate Retribution Gilligan Cut Slashed Throat Crazy-Prepared Jerkass Horror Comedy Red Oni, Blue Oni As Himself The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Informed Ability Small Name, Big Ego Brutal Honesty Age Lift Film Noir Eye Scream Product Placement Missing Mom You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Imagine Spot Getting Crap Past the Radar Too Dumb to Live Get Out! 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Anguished Declaration of Love Shout-Out Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Developing Doomed Characters Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Spiritual Successor Rule of Symbolism Abhorrent Admirer Amoral Attorney Room Full of Crazy Very Loosely Based on a True Story Mugging the Monster Based on a True Story Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Taking You with Me Badass Longcoat Fish out of Water Determinator aka: The Determinator Groin Attack Extreme Doormat Needs Wiki Magic Love Public Domain Feature Films Poor Communication Kills Humiliation Conga Parental Abandonment Hate Sink La Résistance Facial Horror Rape as Drama The Atoner Nice Hat The Cavalry Rule of Cool Empathic Environment All for Nothing The Load Fire-Forged Friends A Date with Rosie Palms Actually Pretty Funny Deconstruction Wicked Cultured Ominous Latin Chanting Genre Savvy The Stoic Crucified Hero Shot Vomit Discretion Shot The Mole Big Bad Kids Are Cruel Improbable Weapon User Re-Cut For the Evulz The Dreaded The Great Depression Manipulative Bastard Ax-Crazy Redshirt Army Funny Background Event Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Laser-Guided Karma Dark and Troubled Past Unwitting Instigator of Doom Distracted by the Sexy Heterosexual Life-Partners Police are Useless Captain Ersatz Our Vampires Are Different Scary Black Man Girl-on-Girl Is Hot She Cleans Up Nicely You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Is Serious Business Kick the Dog Sadistic Choice My God, What Have I Done? Half the Man He Used to Be No OSHA Compliance Red Shirt Defrosting Ice Queen Leave the Camera Running Japanese Films Naked People Are Funny Spanner in the Works Drill Sergeant Nasty The Film of the Book Didn't Think This Through Continuity Nod Cool Old Lady The Alleged Car How We Got Here Cassandra Truth Tap on the Head Face–Heel Turn Woman in White Foil Hypocritical Humor "Well Done, Son!" Guy Spared by the Adaptation The Casanova Boom, Headshot! There Is No Kill Like Overkill Framing Device Bloody Hilarious Star-Crossed Lovers