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