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