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