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