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Exact Words Driven to Suicide Storming the Castle Man on Fire Neck Snap Shell-Shocked Veteran Fainting Hidden Depths Adapted Out Stealth Pun Captain Ersatz Cool Guns Stepford Smiler Antagonist Title Darkest Hour Properly Paranoid '80s Hair Flipping the Bird Grievous Bottley Harm Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Kill 'em All Sequel Hook Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Flashback Light Is Not Good More Dakka Manic Pixie Dream Girl Vomit Indiscretion Shot Badass Grandpa Creative Closing Credits Really Gets Around Bavarian Fire Drill Air-Vent Passageway Death Glare Offscreen Moment of Awesome Truth in Television Cluster F-Bomb Face Death with Dignity Cain and Abel The Cameo Bound and Gagged Alas, Poor Villain Badass Longcoat Drugs Are Bad Pretty Little Headshots Hooker with a Heart of Gold Punny Name The Chessmaster Put on a Bus Abhorrent Admirer The Bully Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Every Car Is a Pinto Evil Sounds Deep Sexy Discretion Shot The Stinger As Himself Bullying a Dragon Imagine Spot Heel Realization Camp Gay Shower Scene German Films Does Not Like Shoes The Casanova The Smurfette Principle Dropped a Bridge on Him Film Noir Frame-Up Eldritch Abomination What the Hell, Hero? 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Hypocritical Humor Video Credits Dressing as the Enemy No Celebrities Were Harmed Evil Is Hammy Overprotective Dad Shoot the Shaggy Dog It Will Never Catch On Wrong Genre Savvy Immune to Bullets My God, What Have I Done? 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