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