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