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