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Epilogue Big Damn Heroes Evil-Detecting Dog Maybe Ever After Slasher Smile Henpecked Husband Developing Doomed Characters Rasputinian Death Evil Brit Artistic License – Law Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Car Fu Becoming the Mask Adaptation Name Change Broken Bird Adaptation Expansion Jerkass Has a Point Genre Savvy Large Ham The Brute Music Stories Rousing Speech Break the Cutie Stepford Smiler Killed Mid-Sentence Morality Pet He Who Fights Monsters Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Police Brutality Visual Pun Crazy Jealous Guy Mistaken for Gay My Greatest Failure Heroic BSoD Black Comedy Rape Author Appeal Major Injury Underreaction Punch-Clock Villain Determinator aka: The Determinator Lampshade Hanging No-Sell Double-Meaning Title Truth in Television Ghost Fiction Dropped a Bridge on Him Death by Adaptation Famous Last Words Works Set in World War II Meaningful Background Event Red Eyes, Take Warning Call-Forward I Need a Freaking Drink Romantic Comedy The Load Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Last-Name Basis Older Than They Look Dramatic Gun Cock Loads and Loads of Characters Television Movie Index Anti-Hero Bound and Gagged Shut Up, Hannibal! Pragmatic Adaptation No Celebrities Were Harmed Roaring Rampage of Revenge Evil Laugh Show Within a Show Four-Temperament Ensemble Neck Lift Taking the Bullet Match Cut "The Reason You Suck" Speech My God, What Have I Done? Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Big Fancy House Would Hurt a Child Cluster F-Bomb Actor Allusion The Power of Love The Place Random Events Plot Kick the Son of a Bitch Bare Your Midriff Psychopathic Manchild No Ending Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Bait-and-Switch Badass Longcoat Affectionate Parody Action Survivor Married to the Job Bald of Evil Did Not Get the Girl You Killed My Father Good Is Not Nice Only in It for the Money Police are Useless Only Sane Man All There in the Script The Stinger Downer Ending Defiant to the End The Un-Reveal May–December Romance Bittersweet Ending Improvised Weapon Fingore Reality Has No Subtitles Determinator Unwitting Instigator of Doom Stock Footage '80s Hair Unusual Euphemism Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Real Life Public Domain Feature Films Would Hit a Girl Vacation Films Horror Films Informed Ability Freeze-Frame Bonus Easily Forgiven Motor Mouth Spell My Name with an "S" From Nobody to Nightmare Wham Line Time Skip Funny Foreigner Depraved Bisexual Auto Erotica Evil vs. Evil Creepy Child French Films Abhorrent Admirer Dogged Nice Guy Every Car Is a Pinto Fantastic Racism Anguished Declaration of Love Token Minority Chiaroscuro Silence Is Golden I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Agony of the Feet Obviously Evil Say My Name Stealth Hi/Bye Eagleland Scenery Porn Woman Scorned Ambiguous Ending Hate Sink folderlabel Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene An Axe to Grind Fake Shemp Demonic Possession Dark Is Not Evil Wretched Hive Same Language Dub What the Hell, Hero? 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Berserk Button Wham Shot Never My Fault Fanservice Extra Sinister Minister Running Gag Dies Wide Open Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Laser-Guided Karma Big Bad Fish out of Water Epic Fail Storming the Castle How We Got Here Arch-Enemy Spared by the Adaptation Expository Hairstyle Change Black Dude Dies First Alpha Bitch Vitriolic Best Buds Names to Run Away from Really Fast Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Dissonant Serenity Smug Snake Politically Incorrect Villain Beware the Nice Ones The Chessmaster Irony Curse Cut Short Exactly What It Says on the Tin Meet Cute Back from the Dead Only One Name Didn't Think This Through Evil Plan The Remake Overprotective Dad Dressing as the Enemy Advertised Extra Together in Death Cool Old Guy Freudian Excuse Almost Kiss Horror Comedy Empathic Environment Jerk with a Heart of Gold Male Gaze The End... Or Is It? 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