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