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