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