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