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