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