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