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