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