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