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