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