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