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