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