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Is a Crapshoot Ax-Crazy Hong Kong Films Our Zombies Are Different Killed Mid-Sentence Re-Cut Film Series The Big Guy Calling the Old Man Out Sports Stories Face Death with Dignity Cool Shades Curb-Stomp Battle The Casanova Honor Before Reason Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Costume Porn Soundtrack Dissonance Historical-Domain Character As Long as It Sounds Foreign Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Unresolved Sexual Tension Heroic Sacrifice Black Dude Dies First Too Dumb to Live A God Am I Beard of Evil Bait-and-Switch Large Ham Brainless Beauty From Nobody to Nightmare Hypocritical Humor Loads and Loads of Characters Television Movie Index Bound and Gagged Catch-Phrase Victoria's Secret Compartment Once More, with Clarity! 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Epilogue Parental Substitute Red Eyes, Take Warning Title Drop All Just a Dream Slasher Smile Hell Is That Noise Cowboy Cop The '80s Spiteful Spit Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Adaptation Name Change Thriller Your Head A-Splode Faux Affably Evil Italian Films I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Spiritual Successor Coming-of-Age Story Japanese Films Morality Pet Bitch in Sheep's Clothing The Film of the Book No Ending Ascended Extra Military and Warfare Films Line-of-Sight Name Babies Ever After Face–Heel Turn Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Big Applesauce Evil Sounds Deep May–December Romance Captain Obvious Drowning My Sorrows Leaning on the Fourth Wall Amoral Attorney Action Prologue Retired Badass Stealth Hi/Bye Nothing Is Scarier Fish out of Water Breaking the Fourth Wall He Knows Too Much The X of Y British Films Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Taking the Bullet Disney Villain Death Chekhov's Gun Wham Line Vitriolic Best Buds Bowdlerise Cat Scare All There in the Script No Celebrities Were Harmed Punny Name Apocalypse How Getting Crap Past the Radar Training Montage Dies Wide Open Big Bad Duumvirate Character Development Ambiguous Ending As You Know All There in the Manual Author Avatar Disguised in Drag Alas, Poor Villain BFG Darker and Edgier Malevolent Masked Men Kubrick Stare Never My Fault Broken Pedestal The Dog Bites Back Protagonist Title Evil Brit An Axe to Grind Expository Hairstyle Change Wicked Cultured Slap-Slap-Kiss The Brute Serial Killer And the Adventure Continues The Bully Stalker with a Crush Kick the Dog Australian Movies Fourth Date Marriage The Sociopath The '70s Homage Naked People Are Funny Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Foreshadowing Black and Gray Morality It's All About Me Love Triangle Villain Opening Scene Famous Last Words Rule of Cool The Atoner Fingore Ship Tease Undying Loyalty Affably Evil The Vamp Shut Up, Hannibal! 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War Is Hell Dual Wielding Based on a True Story Crapsack World Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Manly Tears Bar Brawl Fan Disservice Very Loosely Based on a True Story The Bad Guy Wins Fatal Flaw Artistic License – Physics Continuity Nod Grey and Gray Morality Stylistic Suck Bland-Name Product folderlabel Beauty Is Never Tarnished It's Personal Christmas Movies Index Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Dwindling Party Femme Fatale Man on Fire Left the Background Music On Your Cheating Heart Red Oni, Blue Oni Drives Like Crazy Does This Remind You of Anything? Anti-Villain Properly Paranoid Casting Gag Dull Surprise Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Despair Event Horizon Self-Deprecation Match Cut Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Deliberately Monochrome Developing Doomed Characters Here We Go Again! 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Is Serious Business Hollywood Law Jerkass Never Found the Body The Faceless Tranquil Fury Mood Whiplash Disproportionate Retribution Reality Ensues Fate Worse than Death Eldritch Abomination Distracted by the Sexy N-Word Privileges Stuff Blowing Up Camera Abuse Ms. Fanservice Comically Missing the Point Obviously Evil Smug Snake Retirony Recycled IN SPACE! Important Haircut Paper-Thin Disguise Not What It Looks Like Pyrrhic Victory Jitter Cam Funny Foreigner Action Girl