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