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