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