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They Really Do Love Each Other Lampshade Hanging Immune to Bullets Distracted by the Sexy Obviously Evil Meaningful Background Event Unreliable Narrator Everyone Has Standards Destination Defenestration Large Ham Star-Crossed Lovers Lock and Load Montage Police are Useless Deliberately Monochrome Bolivian Army Ending Throwing Your Sword Always Works Spiritual Successor An Aesop In Name Only Gold Digger Cassandra Truth Setting Update Bullying a Dragon Documentary Disproportionate Retribution The Atoner Heroic BSoD Red Right Hand Big Fancy House Agony of the Feet Almost Kiss Black Comedy Rape Anti-Villain Empathic Environment Driven to Suicide Frame-Up Not So Stoic The Oner The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Room Full of Crazy Cold-Blooded Torture Humans Are Bastards What You Are in the Dark Expy Malevolent Masked Men Belligerent Sexual Tension Christmas Movies Index Evil Is Hammy Mood Whiplash One Steve Limit Evil vs. Evil Mystery and Detective Films Sacrificial Lion Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Breaking the Fourth Wall Our Zombies Are Different Married to the Job Moment Killer Race Against the Clock In Medias Res Bi the Way Department of Redundancy Department For the Evulz Dutch Angle Smug Snake Daddy's Girl Left the Background Music On Paper-Thin Disguise Cruel and Unusual Death Dark Is Not Evil Adaptational Villainy Epic Movie Put on a Bus Sealed Evil in a Can Well-Intentioned Extremist Ship Tease Ascended Extra Villain Protagonist Public Domain Feature Films Offscreen Moment of Awesome How We Got Here Vitriolic Best Buds Aluminum Christmas Trees Roaring Rampage of Revenge Establishing Character Moment Sanity Slippage Arch-Enemy Yandere The Cavalry Did Not Get the Girl Amoral Attorney Sexy Discretion Shot Even Evil Has Standards Fatal Flaw Eye Scream Depraved Bisexual Flashback Works Set in World War II Black Dude Dies First Leave the Camera Running Psychopathic Manchild Logo Joke Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Card-Carrying Villain Silent Movie Action Girl Greater-Scope Villain Determinator aka: The Determinator Only Sane Man The Alleged Car Australian Movies Dark Action Girl Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Creative Closing Credits Book-Ends Advertised Extra Spanner in the Works You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Missing Mom The Ace The Mole Parental Abandonment Pragmatic Villainy Anti-Hero Ungrateful Bastard No Antagonist Re-Cut Adaptational Attractiveness Blatant Lies Television Movie Index Call-Forward Music Stories The Casanova Happily Married Rule of Cool Rule of Three Nothing Is Scarier From Bad to Worse Those Wacky Nazis I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Precision F-Strike The '80s As the Good Book Says... The Dragon Dark and Troubled Past Does Not Like Shoes Funny Background Event Fish out of Water Serious Business Worthy Opponent Slap-Slap-Kiss Wrong Genre Savvy Camera Abuse Dressing as the Enemy Those Two Bad Guys Never Found the Body Children Are Innocent Horror Films Mexican Standoff The Ditz Death by Adaptation Obstructive Bureaucrat Science Fiction Films Revenge Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Novelization Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Award-Bait Song Defrosting Ice Queen Creator Cameo Femme Fatale Here We Go Again! She's Got Legs Psychological Thriller Knife Nut Only a Flesh Wound Ironic Echo The '60s Age Lift Beauty Is Never Tarnished Damsel in Distress Alpha Bitch One-Word Title Men Are the Expendable Gender Armor-Piercing Question Woman Scorned Drugs Are Bad The Bully Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Fingore There Is No Kill Like Overkill Big-Bad Ensemble Arc Words Freeze-Frame Bonus Bald of Evil Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Green-Eyed Monster Kill 'em All Major Injury Underreaction Badass Boast Defiant to the End Smoking Is Cool Not Quite Dead Dirty Old Man Double Entendre Curse Cut Short Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Suspiciously Specific Denial Costume Porn MacGuffin Crapsack World Deal with the Devil Adaptation Dye-Job Male Gaze Action Prologue Nice Hat Scenery Gorn Reckless Gun Usage Bait-and-Switch She Cleans Up Nicely Last-Name Basis Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Historical Villain Upgrade Sadistic Choice Hooker with a Heart of Gold More Dakka Car Fu Have a Gay Old Time Hair-Trigger Temper He Knows Too Much Villain with Good Publicity Dual Wielding Spell My Name with an "S" Shown Their Work Adapted Out Closed Circle Not So Different Deliberate Values Dissonance Back from the Dead Honor Before Reason Based on a True Story Disappeared Dad Stealth Pun Ripped from the Headlines Unusually Uninteresting Sight Needs Wiki Magic Love Artistic License – Gun Safety All Just a Dream Make It Look Like an Accident Improbable Weapon User Self-Deprecation Friend to All Children Recycled IN SPACE! 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Killed Mid-Sentence Shipper on Deck Ax-Crazy Half the Man He Used to Be For Want of a Nail Abhorrent Admirer Cat Fight Easily Forgiven Names to Run Away from Really Fast Adaptation Expansion Retirony Artistic License – History Evil Laugh Beta Couple The Stoic Storming the Castle Madness Mantra Ms. Fanservice Obfuscating Stupidity Your Cheating Heart The Cameo The Big Guy What Happened to the Mouse? Not So Above It All Zombie Stories Pretty Little Headshots Captain Ersatz Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Made of Iron Anachronic Order The X of Y Chewing the Scenery Punch-Clock Villain The Lost Lenore Guns Akimbo Those Two Guys Red Shirt Pyrrhic Victory Break the Haughty Fanservice Extra Final Girl True Companions Up to Eleven Deus ex Machina Totally Radical A Minor Kidroduction Badass Grandpa No OSHA Compliance Adorkable Heroic Sacrifice A.I. Is a Crapshoot Twist Ending Rule of Symbolism Took a Level in Jerkass Brainless Beauty Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Comically Missing the Point A Date with Rosie Palms Chase Scene Historical Hero Upgrade Fourth Date Marriage It's Personal Unusual Euphemism World of Ham Undying Loyalty Death by Sex Serial Killer Darker and Edgier Broken Pedestal The Dog Bites Back Spiteful Spit Cowboy Cop Betty and Veronica The Place Cool Old Lady Animal Motifs No Celebrities Were Harmed Badass in a Nice Suit Gilligan Cut Oh, Crap! Character Development Foil Index of Film Westerns Kick the Son of a Bitch Tranquil Fury B-Movie Authority Equals Asskicking Demonic Possession The Ghost Parental Neglect Neck Snap The Chessmaster Evil Is Petty Monumental Damage "The Reason You Suck" Speech Our Vampires Are Different One-Man Army The Sociopath Determinator The Voiceless Bound and Gagged The Smurfette Principle Line-of-Sight Name Plot Hole Love at First Sight Conspicuous CG Loads and Loads of Characters Title Drop Stealth Hi/Bye Film Noir Black and Gray Morality Too Dumb to Live Wounded Gazelle Gambit Rule of Funny Catapult Nightmare Off with His Head! 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