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