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