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