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