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