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