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