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