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Adaptational Attractiveness Mundane Made Awesome Establishing Character Moment Damsel in Distress The Stoner Psychological Thriller Hope Spot Break the Haughty Police are Useless Have a Gay Old Time The Dragon Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Slashed Throat Took a Level in Badass Sequel Escalation Adapted Out Serious Business Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Pimped-Out Dress Reasonable Authority Figure Fiery Redhead The Ditz Suspiciously Similar Substitute Fingore My Beloved Smother In the Back Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Country Matters Make It Look Like an Accident Nice Guy All There in the Manual Developing Doomed Characters Age Lift Blood Knight You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Does Not Like Shoes Time Skip Stock Footage Car Fu And Starring May–December Romance Police Brutality Kill It with Fire Drill Sergeant Nasty Based on a True Story Canadian Movies Setting Update Obstructive Bureaucrat Parental Abandonment Hate Sink Babies Ever After Suddenly SHOUTING! Training Montage Back from the Dead Be Careful What You Wish For Interrupted Suicide Meaningful Name Gold Digger Dark Is Not Evil Overly Long Gag Kick the Son of a Bitch Not Using the "Z" Word Even Evil Has Standards Jerkass Has a Point Kill 'em All Hollywood Law Contrived Coincidence Insane Troll Logic Cloudcuckoolander Soft Glass Taking the Bullet Cool Old Guy Not Even Bothering with the Accent Hell Is That Noise Sci-Fi Horror Punch-Clock Villain Straight Gay Vampire Fiction Creepy Child Bound and Gagged A.I. Is a Crapshoot Word of God Hoist by His Own Petard Men Are the Expendable Gender 20 Minutes into the Future Arranged Marriage MacGuffin Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Lampshade Hanging Attempted Rape Anti-Hero Broken Aesop Bond One-Liner Bullying a Dragon Dramatic Gun Cock Karma Houdini Wounded Gazelle Gambit Rule of Cool The Quiet One Martial Arts Movie Together in Death Dull Surprise Earn Your Happy Ending Fanservice Extra Alpha Bitch Idiot Ball Whole Plot Reference Big Bad Improbable Weapon User Naïve Newcomer Badass Longcoat Every Car Is a Pinto Rousing Speech Celebrity Paradox Unreliable Narrator Double Entendre Drugs Are Bad Rule of Symbolism Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Hair-Trigger Temper I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Cool Guns Character Development Implacable Man Adaptation Name Change Victoria's Secret Compartment Reality Is Unrealistic Covers Always Lie The Great Depression Mind Screw Mr. Exposition Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Even Evil Has Loved Ones Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Eldritch Abomination Stuff Blowing Up BFG Gilligan Cut Flashback Plot Hole Faking the Dead The Dog Bites Back