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