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