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