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