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More Tropes No OSHA Compliance Composite Character Men Are the Expendable Gender Redemption Equals Death Psycho for Hire Dirty Cop Never My Fault Unreliable Narrator Black Comedy Sacrificial Lion Boom, Headshot! Together in Death Asshole Victim Hope Spot Say My Name Call-Forward Conspicuous CG Daddy's Girl Country Matters Babies Ever After Suspiciously Similar Substitute Canadian Movies Ominous Latin Chanting Humiliation Conga One-Man Army Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Sadistic Choice MacGuffin Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome BFG Not So Stoic Playing Gertrude Batman Gambit Up to Eleven Pragmatic Villainy Cat Scare Film Noir The Atoner Bi the Way Ax-Crazy Eureka Moment Continuity Nod The Vamp Ghost Fiction Taking the Bullet Corpsing Big Brother Instinct Rape as Drama Overly Long Gag Dumb Blonde Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Stock Footage Artistic License – Law Drowning My Sorrows Bilingual Bonus Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Dramatic Gun Cock Animated Credits Opening Villain Ball Beware the Nice Ones Black and Gray Morality Heroic BSoD The Cameo Evil Counterpart Get Out! Line-of-Sight Name Rule of Cool Made of Iron Betty and Veronica Hypocritical Humor Five-Man Band Reasonable Authority Figure Running Gag Dying Moment of Awesome Crazy-Prepared Historical Hero Upgrade Let's Get Dangerous! Extremely Short Timespan Dramedy Cloudcuckoolander Took a Level in Badass Even Evil Has Standards Drugs Are Bad Very Loosely Based on a True Story NO INDOOR VOICE Setting Update Flipping the Bird Leaning on the Fourth Wall Big Damn Heroes Vomit Discretion Shot Death by Adaptation I'm a Humanitarian Dropped a Bridge on Him Neck Snap Dual Wielding Adults Are Useless The Cavalry Failed a Spot Check Big Eater Chuck Cunningham Syndrome An Axe to Grind Vomit Indiscretion Shot Curb-Stomp Battle Deliberate Values Dissonance Red Herring No-Sell As You Know Leave the Camera Running Corrupt Corporate Executive Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun All Girls Want Bad Boys Bloodier and Gorier Camp Gay Grey and Gray Morality Mood Whiplash Grievous Bottley Harm Decoy Protagonist No Name Given Final Girl "Well Done, Son!" Guy Drives Like Crazy Made of Explodium Protagonist Title Disappeared Dad Manipulative Bastard Cool Old Guy Easily Forgiven Establishing Character Moment Bullying a Dragon Accidental Misnaming Ship Tease Alpha Bitch Curse Cut Short Oh, Crap! Small Name, Big Ego Plot Hole Woman in White Bowdlerise Those Two Bad Guys My Greatest Failure Beard of Evil The Smurfette Principle Face Death with Dignity Works Set in World War II Sole Survivor Sequel Hook Improvised Weapon Reckless Gun Usage The Great Depression Room Full of Crazy Stealth Hi/Bye Downer Ending Developing Doomed Characters A Father to His Men Creepy Child Captain Obvious Action Girl Ripped from the Headlines Hidden Depths The Chick Rule of Symbolism Dwindling Party The Load Extreme Doormat Television Movie Index Determinator Adaptational Attractiveness A God Am I Noodle Incident Jitter Cam Shut Up, Hannibal! Double-Meaning Title Obviously Evil Victoria's Secret Compartment Annoying Younger Sibling Undying Loyalty Bland-Name Product Costume Porn Manchild Comically Missing the Point Death Seeker Adaptation Dye-Job Evil Is Hammy Animal Title Index Spell My Name with an "S" Evil vs. Evil Translation Convention Throwing Your Sword Always Works Author Avatar Slap-Slap-Kiss Love at First Sight Meet Cute Large Ham The Casanova Adaptation Name Change The '70s 20 Minutes into the Future Death Glare Darkest Hour Face–Heel Turn True Companions Affably Evil Villain Protagonist Here We Go Again! 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Jump Scare A Minor Kidroduction Obfuscating Stupidity Shown Their Work Guile Hero Manly Tears Music Stories Plucky Comic Relief Offscreen Teleportation Hoist by His Own Petard Ambiguous Disorder Laser-Guided Karma Pragmatic Adaptation Scary Black Man Obstructive Bureaucrat The Big Guy Hollywood Darkness Fainting Age Lift Fat Bastard Bolivian Army Ending Bloodless Carnage Retcon Domestic Abuse The Power of Love Coming-of-Age Story Bar Brawl Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Make It Look Like an Accident An Arm and a Leg Gone Horribly Right Yandere Really Gets Around Only in It for the Money Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Did Not Get the Girl Captain Ersatz Straight Gay Took a Level in Jerkass "Awesome McCool" Name Tap on the Head Historical In-Joke Dull Surprise Covers Always Lie Heel–Face Turn Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Bad Guy Wins Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Half the Man He Used to Be Slashed Throat Police are Useless Badass Boast Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Romantic Comedy Anti-Villain Bad Boss timeperiod Overprotective Dad The '60s In Name Only Actually Pretty Funny Jerk with a Heart of Gold Jerkass Chekhov's Gun Big Fancy House Male Gaze Demonic Possession For the Evulz Male Frontal Nudity Scare Chord The '80s Red Oni, Blue Oni Morality Pet Danny Peary Cult Movies List What You Are in the Dark Refuge in Audacity Rewatch Bonus Star-Crossed Lovers The Stinger Hate Sink Historical Villain Upgrade Peek-a-Boo Corpse Empathic Environment Hypocrite Precision F-Strike And Starring Brick Joke Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Leitmotif Fatal Flaw Public Domain Feature Films Retired Badass Anachronic Order Race Against the Clock Australian Movies Storming the Castle Stepford Smiler Bond Villain Stupidity Breaking the Fourth Wall Not Using the "Z" Word The Alleged Car The Stoic Bad "Bad Acting" As the Good Book Says... Accidental Murder Irony Death of a Child Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Advertised Extra Your Cheating Heart Defrosting Ice Queen Freeze-Frame Bonus Brutal Honesty Spanner in the Works Big Bad Duumvirate Mythology Gag Rule of Funny Darker and Edgier Distracted by the Sexy Wrong Genre Savvy Artistic License – Gun Safety Amusing Injuries Spared by the Adaptation The Reveal Book-Ends Real Life Writes the Plot Broken Bird Foregone Conclusion The Chessmaster Adaptational Heroism Manic Pixie Dream Girl Humans Are Bastards Department of Redundancy Department For Want of a Nail Sexy Discretion Shot Earn Your Happy Ending In Medias Res Chewing the Scenery Naïve Newcomer Woman Scorned Crazy Jealous Guy Punny Name La Résistance Evil Is Petty Arranged Marriage Historical-Domain Character Brother–Sister Incest Getting Crap Past the Radar Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Poor Communication Kills Casting Gag Famous Last Words Creator Cameo You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Enemy Mine I Have Your Wife The Place Better to Die than Be Killed Recycled IN SPACE! Mystery and Detective Films Roaring Rampage of Revenge Martial Arts Movie Horror Comedy German Films Cassandra Truth Loophole Abuse Black Comedy Rape Villain with Good Publicity Deliberately Monochrome May–December Romance Motor Mouth Almost Kiss Disney Villain Death Kids Are Cruel Smug Snake Berserk Button Thriller Shout-Out Sports Stories Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds From Nobody to Nightmare All Men Are Perverts "Shaggy Dog" Story Death by Sex Red Eyes, Take Warning It Can Think Laughing Mad Smoking Is Cool "Where Are They Now?" 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It's Personal Hollywood Law Mooks Blatant Lies The Smart Guy Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Cruel and Unusual Death Femme Fatale Pay Evil unto Evil Take That! 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Dark Action Girl And I Must Scream Unwitting Instigator of Doom Rasputinian Death Italian Films You Have Outlived Your Usefulness No Celebrities Were Harmed Fun with Acronyms A.I. Is a Crapshoot Papa Wolf Disney Death Mexican Standoff Improbable Aiming Skills Flashback Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Tranquil Fury Camera Abuse Exact Words Good Is Not Nice Fish out of Water Black Dude Dies First Interrupted Suicide Never Trust a Trailer All There in the Manual My God, What Have I Done? Not Even Bothering with the Accent Gold Digger Science Fiction Films Body Horror Loads and Loads of Characters Ungrateful Bastard The Brute Tempting Fate Depraved Bisexual Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Amoral Attorney Blood Knight And the Adventure Continues Shirtless Scene The Sociopath Anyone Can Die Calling the Old Man Out Bond One-Liner Never Found the Body Hair-Trigger Temper Fantastic Racism Would Hurt a Child Affectionate Parody She Cleans Up Nicely Despair Event Horizon Arch-Enemy Back from the Dead Break the Haughty Eye Scream Match Cut Naked People Are Funny Cool Old Lady Ms. Fanservice As Himself Our Zombies Are Different Pretty in Mink Only Known by Their Nickname It's All About Me Twist Ending Belligerent Sexual Tension Neck Lift Happily Married Driven to Suicide The End... Or Is It? Romantic False Lead Silent Movie Mr. Exposition Meaningful Background Event Gainax Ending Heterosexual Life-Partners Alas, Poor Villain "The Reason You Suck" Speech Author Appeal Sci-Fi Horror Pretty Little Headshots Tagline Animal Motifs Left the Background Music On Our Vampires Are Different Suddenly SHOUTING! Four-Temperament Ensemble Serious Business The Bully What Happened to the Mouse? Cool Car Central Theme Every Car Is a Pinto Eagleland Random Events Plot Film Series Wounded Gazelle Gambit No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Evil Laugh What the Hell, Hero? Adaptational Badass From Bad to Worse Handicapped Badass Authority Equals Asskicking I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Bloody Hilarious Be Careful What You Wish For Market-Based Title Off with His Head! Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Genre Shift All for Nothing Gory Discretion Shot Jerkass Has a Point Framing Device O.O.C. Is Serious Business The Faceless Fake Shemp Imagine Spot Character Development Reality Is Unrealistic Artistic License – Biology Daylight Horror Chekhov's Skill Armor-Piercing Question Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday This Is Gonna Suck Brainless Beauty Eiffel Tower Effect Dirty Old Man Truth in Television Same Language Dub Crapsack World World of Ham Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Hero of Another Story The Lancer Deal with the Devil Well-Intentioned Extremist Knight Templar Madness Mantra Epic Fail Anti-Hero Bring My Brown Pants Intrepid Reporter Rich Bitch Ambiguously Gay Karma Houdini Faux Affably Evil Big-Bad Ensemble B-Movie Rated M for Manly Beauty Is Never Tarnished Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Dark Is Not Evil Mad Scientist Punctuated! For! Emphasis! The Oner Aluminum Christmas Trees Drill Sergeant Nasty Deus ex Machina Catch-Phrase Apocalypse How Bound and Gagged Index of Film Westerns One Steve Limit More Dakka Broken Aesop Canon Foreigner Based on a True Story Homage Karmic Death Sassy Black Woman Badass in a Nice Suit Badass Bookworm Ascended Extra Immune to Bullets Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique He Who Fights Monsters Fourth Date Marriage folderlabel Genre Throwback Epic Movie Badass Longcoat Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Time Skip British Films Rousing Speech Artistic License – History The Mafia Only Sane Man The '50s Slasher Movie Military and Warfare Films Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Chase Scene Friend to All Children Gratuitous English Damsel in Distress Kill 'em All Fan Disservice Expository Hairstyle Change Hero Antagonist Dark Reprise Show Within a Show The Lost Lenore Offscreen Moment of Awesome Break the Cutie Expy Fatal Family Photo Not So Different Unresolved Sexual Tension Suspiciously Specific Denial Arc Words In the Back Evil Plan Award-Bait Song Cool Shades The Ghost Defiant to the End Guns Akimbo Action Genre Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Film Noir Index Shower Scene He Knows Too Much Super Strength Heel Realization Mundane Made Awesome Important Haircut Kubrick Stare The Dog Bites Back Unusually Uninteresting Sight Scenery Porn Becoming the Mask I Did What I Had to Do Posthumous Character Fingore The Dreaded Horror Films Spiteful Spit Mr. Fanservice Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Stalker with a Crush Token Minority Abhorrent Admirer Take a Third Option Antagonist Title Insistent Terminology Insult Backfire Deadpan Snarker Shoot the Shaggy Dog Destination Defenestration Abusive Parents Light Is Not Good Everyone Has Standards Trailers Always Spoil Not Quite Dead Bald of Evil