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