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