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