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