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