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