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