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