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