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