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