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