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Expy Manic Pixie Dream Girl Slasher Smile MacGuffin Asshole Victim Room Full of Crazy Implacable Man Oh, Crap! Monumental Damage Villain Ball Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Babies Ever After Bond Villain Stupidity Unusually Uninteresting Sight Neck Lift Papa Wolf Grey and Gray Morality Get Out! Reasonable Authority Figure Nice Hat From Nobody to Nightmare Red Shirt After the End Sequel Hook "Awesome McCool" Name Visual Pun Military and Warfare Films Eye Scream Exactly What It Says on the Tin Adorkable Word of God Pretty in Mink And I Must Scream More Dakka Dirty Coward Only Known by Their Nickname Defiant to the End Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor I Did What I Had to Do Adaptational Badass Market-Based Title Very Loosely Based on a True Story Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Sociopath Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Epic Fail Dramatic Irony Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Is a Crapshoot The Dreaded Not Using the "Z" Word Adapted Out Humans Are Bastards Left the Background Music On Conspicuous CG The Bully Deliberately Monochrome He Knows Too Much Obstructive Bureaucrat Animated Credits Opening Artistic License – Biology She's Got Legs Slashed Throat Ascended Extra Chiaroscuro Ship Tease Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Villain Song Failed a Spot Check Rule of Funny O.O.C. Is Serious Business Spell My Name with an "S" Manipulative Bastard Small Name, Big Ego Enemy Mine Refuge in Audacity Belligerent Sexual Tension Fingore Psychopathic Manchild Drowning My Sorrows Taking the Bullet Those Two Bad Guys Contrived Coincidence Say My Name Outrun the Fireball Improbable Weapon User Genre Shift Shell-Shocked Veteran Aluminum Christmas Trees Show Within a Show Spanner in the Works Works Set in World War II Badass in a Nice Suit Too Dumb to Live Meaningful Name The Smart Guy Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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