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