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