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