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