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