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