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