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