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