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