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