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