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