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