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