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Bad "Bad Acting" Serious Business Breaking the Fourth Wall Insane Troll Logic Refuge in Audacity Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Took a Level in Jerkass You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Random Events Plot Failed a Spot Check Girl-on-Girl Is Hot All for Nothing Fun with Acronyms Stepford Smiler Took a Level in Badass Gone Horribly Right Sacrificial Lion Gorn Bloodless Carnage Man on Fire Annoying Younger Sibling Blonde, Brunette, Redhead '80s Hair Kick the Dog Broken Aesop Canadian Movies Toplessness from the Back Adults Are Useless Closed Circle "The Reason You Suck" Speech Beard of Evil Never My Fault B-Movie Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Defiant to the End Sanity Slippage A Date with Rosie Palms Despair Event Horizon Even Evil Has Standards Hidden Depths The Cameo Drill Sergeant Nasty British Films Disguised in Drag Action Girl Bound and Gagged Big Eater Zombie Stories Arranged Marriage Black Best Friend Chekhov's Gunman The Great Depression Black Dude Dies First Genre Shift Happily Married The Musical I Did What I Had to Do Eureka Moment Aside Glance Decoy Protagonist Suspiciously Similar Substitute Dark Action Girl Bare Your Midriff Final Girl Disappeared Dad Same Language Dub Playing Gertrude The Smurfette Principle Off with His Head! Darkest Hour Ax-Crazy Every Car Is a Pinto Tranquil Fury Cat Fight Evil Counterpart You Have Failed Me Worthy Opponent Country Matters The Alcoholic The Brute Adaptational Heroism Lock and Load Montage The Film of the Book Ironic Echo Animal Title Index Cassandra Truth Bi the Way Naïve Newcomer Make It Look Like an Accident Continuity Nod Blood Knight One-Man Army Obfuscating Stupidity Eiffel Tower Effect Pet the Dog Military and Warfare Films Token Minority Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold My Beloved Smother Bavarian Fire Drill Rule of Three Advertised Extra Non-Indicative Name Danny Peary Cult Movies List Important Haircut What the Hell, Hero? 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Spiteful Spit Sealed Evil in a Can Becoming the Mask Italian Films Shirtless Scene Evil Brit Leave the Camera Running Early Installment Weirdness Bait-and-Switch Woman Scorned The '60s Red Oni, Blue Oni Death Seeker What Happened to the Mouse? Eyepatch of Power Freudian Excuse The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite There Is No Kill Like Overkill Not Quite Dead Foreshadowing Stealth Hi/Bye Author Avatar Dies Wide Open French Films As You Know Left the Background Music On Revenge Badass Bookworm After the End Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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One Steve Limit Light Is Not Good Everyone Has Standards Drives Like Crazy Whole Plot Reference Hooker with a Heart of Gold folderlabel Not Using the "Z" Word Biopic Big Brother Instinct Mexican Standoff Accidental Misnaming Dark Is Not Evil Never Trust a Trailer Manipulative Bastard Ass Shove Roaring Rampage of Revenge Rewatch Bonus Mad Scientist Awesome, but Impractical He Knows Too Much Amusing Injuries Greater-Scope Villain Red Eyes, Take Warning Psychological Thriller Dirty Coward Deus ex Machina The Un-Reveal Batman Gambit Dropped a Bridge on Him Once More, with Clarity! Adult Fear Slap-Slap-Kiss Self-Deprecation Big Damn Heroes Evil vs. Evil Kick the Son of a Bitch Pragmatic Adaptation Due to the Dead Gilligan Cut Dirty Cop Dutch Angle Bad Boss The Chessmaster Men Are the Expendable Gender Dull Surprise Composite Character Adaptation Expansion Russian Films And the Adventure Continues Soundtrack Dissonance Sadistic Choice Loads and Loads of Characters Redshirt Army Deal with the Devil Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Not So Different Deliberately Monochrome Adaptation Name Change The Dragon Mama Bear Adapted Out Ominous Latin Chanting Hypocritical Humor Cool Car Not What It Looks Like Green-Eyed Monster Air-Vent Passageway Posthumous Character Fatal Family Photo Offscreen Moment of Awesome Crucified Hero Shot Ragtag Bunch of Misfits All Men Are Perverts How We Got Here Break the Haughty Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Manchild Redemption Equals Death Papa Wolf Unusually Uninteresting Sight No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Artistic License – Law As Long as It Sounds Foreign Made of Explodium Brick Joke Science Fiction Films Overprotective Dad He Who Fights Monsters Diabolus ex Machina Missing Mom Almost Kiss Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Flashback La Résistance Punny Name Nice Guy Horror Films The Faceless Obviously Evil Madness Mantra Domestic Abuse The Ditz Take a Third Option Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Visual Pun Rule of Cool Faking the Dead Guile Hero Rich Bitch Brother–Sister Incest Animated Credits Opening The Alleged Car Daddy's Girl Action Prologue Fan Disservice Book-Ends Christmas Movies Index Sci-Fi Horror Informed Ability Anyone Can Die Historical Hero Upgrade Asshole Victim Death by Adaptation Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Market-Based Title Yandere Meaningful Echo Corrupt Corporate Executive Abusive Parents Horror Comedy Scenery Gorn Karma Houdini Idiot Ball Spiritual Successor Ship Tease Insistent Terminology Scenery Porn Only in It for the Money Setting Update No OSHA Compliance Manly Tears The Load This Is Gonna Suck For the Evulz O.O.C. Is Serious Business Victoria's Secret Compartment One-Word Title Funny Background Event Adaptational Badass Adaptation Dye-Job Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Funny Foreigner Not So Stoic Match Cut Contrived Coincidence Jerk with a Heart of Gold Alas, Poor Villain Mr. Fanservice Heterosexual Life-Partners Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Romantic False Lead Motor Mouth Faux Affably Evil Unusual Euphemism Heroic BSoD Tagline Badass Normal Adaptational Villainy Evil Laugh Mooks Actor Allusion Captain Obvious Neck Snap Interrupted Suicide Famous Last Words Extremely Short Timespan Parental Abandonment Crazy-Prepared Chewing the Scenery Precision F-Strike Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Handicapped Badass Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Psycho for Hire Obstructive Bureaucrat A.I. Is a Crapshoot Expy Spared by the Adaptation Japanese Films Up to Eleven Fatal Flaw Wounded Gazelle Gambit Villain Song Fiery Redhead Overly Long Gag Brainless Beauty Creepy Child Karmic Death Time Skip Properly Paranoid Beware the Nice Ones Demonic Possession I Have Your Wife Moment Killer Brutal Honesty Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Unspoken Plan Guarantee Big Bad Real Life Writes the Plot Re-Cut Dramedy The '90s Evil Is Hammy Intergenerational Friendship Vitriolic Best Buds Plucky Comic Relief Meaningful Background Event Disney Villain Death Chekhov's Skill Put on a Bus Retired Badass Exactly What It Says on the Tin Stock Footage All Just a Dream Covers Always Lie Dramatic Irony Have a Gay Old Time Anachronic Order Shell-Shocked Veteran Flipping the Bird Film Noir Evil Sounds Deep Say My Name Taking You with Me Improbable Weapon User Naked People Are Funny Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Celebrity Paradox Deconstruction Calling the Old Man Out Love Triangle The Remake Downer Ending Bury Your Gays The Dog Bites Back MacGuffin Rousing Speech Shoot the Shaggy Dog Homage Fanservice Monumental Damage Black Comedy Rape Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Last-Name Basis Guns Akimbo Did Not Get the Girl Retcon Mundane Made Awesome Music Stories Documentary Male Frontal Nudity Dressing as the Enemy Nothing Is Scarier Peek-a-Boo Corpse Pragmatic Villainy