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