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