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