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