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