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