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The '50s Everyone Has Standards Flashback Artistic License – Geography Tranquil Fury Not What It Looks Like Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Manic Pixie Dream Girl The Chessmaster Parental Neglect Badass Longcoat Half the Man He Used to Be Stealth Pun Four-Temperament Ensemble Playing Gertrude The Reveal Taking You with Me You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Beauty Is Never Tarnished Daddy's Girl Dissonant Serenity Evil Plan Disappeared Dad Fatal Family Photo Dropped a Bridge on Him Punctuated! For! Emphasis! The '70s Let's Get Dangerous! Attempted Rape Dull Surprise Death by Irony Slashed Throat Book-Ends Unresolved Sexual Tension No Name Given Reality Has No Subtitles Creepy Child Kubrick Stare Narrator Say My Name Hoist by His Own Petard Blood Knight Needs Wiki Magic Love The Alcoholic Abhorrent Admirer Chekhov's Skill Heel–Face Turn Fake Shemp Exact Words Killed Mid-Sentence A.I. Is a Crapshoot Last-Name Basis Anti-Villain You Killed My Father Love Triangle Race Against the Clock "Shaggy Dog" Story Slasher Smile Creator Cameo The Faceless Bald of Evil Black Comedy Maybe Ever After Big Eater Once More, with Clarity! French Films Badass Boast Twist Ending Accidental Misnaming Big Damn Heroes Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Shut Up, Hannibal! Translation Convention Blood from the Mouth Accidental Murder Does This Remind You of Anything? Informed Ability Too Dumb to Live Rich Bitch Monumental Damage Skewed Priorities Shout-Out Action Prologue Brother–Sister Incest Bond One-Liner Jerkass Has a Point Five-Man Band Humans Are Bastards Plot Hole Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Yandere Fish out of Water Curb-Stomp Battle Parental Substitute Closed Circle Anachronism Stew Villain with Good Publicity Tap on the Head Hooker with a Heart of Gold Straight Gay A God Am I Early-Bird Cameo Dramedy Race Lift Cloudcuckoolander Took a Level in Badass Pimped-Out Dress Shell-Shocked Veteran Contrived Coincidence Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience The Dog Bites Back Overly Long Gag He Who Fights Monsters Creative Closing Credits Arc Words Eagleland Does Not Like Shoes Fingore Rule of Funny Sequel Escalation Mistaken for Gay Ax-Crazy Unspoken Plan Guarantee My Greatest Failure My God, What Have I Done? Batman Gambit Eldritch Abomination Artistic License – Biology Ambiguously Gay Rewatch Bonus Mr. Exposition Those Wacky Nazis Riddle for the Ages Villain Protagonist Drugs Are Bad Chekhov's Gunman Cool Old Guy Psycho for Hire Retired Badass Faking the Dead Covers Always Lie Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Developing Doomed Characters The End... Or Is It? Face–Heel Turn All There in the Manual German Films Chiaroscuro Romantic False Lead Apocalypse How Corrupt Corporate Executive Implacable Man Alas, Poor Villain Fate Worse than Death Ripped from the Headlines Bring My Brown Pants Suddenly SHOUTING! Spiritual Successor Meaningful Name Silence Is Golden Took a Level in Jerkass Vitriolic Best Buds Evil-Detecting Dog Product Placement Bi the Way Comically Missing the Point Protagonist Title Poor Communication Kills Sports Stories Manly Tears Sealed Evil in a Can Scenery Gorn The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Bullying a Dragon Good Is Not Nice Back from the Dead All Just a Dream Bar Brawl Gratuitous English Catch-Phrase In the Back Hypocrite Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Bolivian Army Ending Dirty Old Man Deadpan Snarker O.O.C. Is Serious Business It Can Think Spanner in the Works Ironic Echo Canadian Movies Bound and Gagged Lampshade Hanging Irony Shown Their Work Horror Films Hell Is That Noise Politically Incorrect Villain Dirty Coward Scary Black Man All There in the Script Knight Templar Chekhov's Gun Homage Adaptational Heroism Roaring Rampage of Revenge The Lancer The '60s Loads and Loads of Characters Downer Ending Psychological Thriller Random Events Plot Mood Whiplash Our Zombies Are Different Overprotective Dad Bad "Bad Acting" Brick Joke Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Take a Third Option Pretty in Mink Star-Crossed Lovers Henpecked Husband Bavarian Fire Drill Auto Erotica The Remake Funny Background Event Bottomless Magazines Foil Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Badass Grandpa Bunny-Ears Lawyer Peek-a-Boo Corpse Cool Old Lady Off-into-the-Distance Ending Crazy Jealous Guy Aside Glance Bland-Name Product Even Evil Has Loved Ones Spared by the Adaptation Screw the Rules, I Have Money! All Girls Want Bad Boys Spiteful Spit Amusing Injuries Almost Kiss Bond Villain Stupidity Jerk with a Heart of Gold Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Stuff Blowing Up No OSHA Compliance Break the Cutie The Place Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Really Gets Around Naïve Newcomer Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Historical Villain Upgrade Butt-Monkey Famous Last Words Fainting Not So Stoic Armor-Piercing Question Offscreen Moment of Awesome "The Reason You Suck" Speech Victoria's Secret Compartment Pragmatic Adaptation Determinator Alpha Bitch No Celebrities Were Harmed Dramatic Gun Cock He Knows Too Much Evil Is Hammy No-Sell Corpsing The Starscream Recycled IN SPACE! No Antagonist Never My Fault An Axe to Grind Names to Run Away from Really Fast Together in Death Exactly What It Says on the Tin Properly Paranoid Bowdlerise Black Dude Dies First Artistic License – Physics Action Genre Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Dressing as the Enemy Military and Warfare Films Fantastic Racism Boom, Headshot! Extremely Short Timespan One-Man Army Frame-Up What Happened to the Mouse? Hidden Depths Heroic BSoD Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Historical Hero Upgrade Important Haircut Hong Kong Films Undying Loyalty The Musical I Have Your Wife Femme Fatale Captain Obvious Unusually Uninteresting Sight Rule of Three Would Hit a Girl Face Death with Dignity The Smurfette Principle Only Sane Man The Oner Heel Realization Suspiciously Similar Substitute Shipper on Deck The Big Guy The Stoner Antagonist Title Television Movie Index Sacrificial Lion Nothing Is Scarier The X of Y Unwitting Instigator of Doom Here We Go Again! Deus ex Machina Funny Foreigner Stylistic Suck Ominous Latin Chanting Rape as Drama It's Personal Badass in a Nice Suit Historical In-Joke Big Bad Music Stories Bittersweet Ending Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Alliterative Name The Quiet One Bloodier and Gorier Rasputinian Death Fiery Redhead Deal with the Devil Decoy Protagonist Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds A Father to His Men "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Daylight Horror Double Entendre Adaptational Attractiveness The Bully Time Skip Didn't Think This Through Throwing Your Sword Always Works BFG It's All About Me Only in It for the Money Hope Spot Disguised in Drag Suspiciously Specific Denial May–December Romance Actor Allusion Gory Discretion Shot Outrun the Fireball A Date with Rosie Palms Offscreen Teleportation '80s Hair Male Frontal Nudity No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Sexy Discretion Shot Aluminum Christmas Trees Captain Ersatz Leitmotif Big-Bad Ensemble Unreliable Narrator I Did What I Had to Do Token Minority Not So Above It All More Dakka World of Ham Adapted Out Wrong Genre Savvy Cool Car Death Seeker Distracted by the Sexy Double-Meaning Title Pyrrhic Victory Dramatic Irony Red Right Hand Cowboy Cop Cain and Abel Worthy Opponent Black and Gray Morality Pet the Dog And the Adventure Continues Anyone Can Die Crapsack World I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Grey and Gray Morality Artistic License – History Stock Footage No Ending Big Applesauce Conspicuous CG Death of a Child Camera Abuse Guile Hero Laughing Mad Rule of Cool Superhero Those Two Guys Jerk Jock From Nobody to Nightmare Trailers Always Spoil Mundane Made Awesome Death by Sex La Résistance Your Head A-Splode Based on a True Story The Stinger Action Girl Revenge Composite Character Never Found the Body Combat Pragmatist Mama Bear An Arm and a Leg Meet Cute Crucified Hero Shot Insane Troll Logic Bad Boss Beard of Evil Tempting Fate As the Good Book Says... Kill 'em All Red Shirt Scenery Porn Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Word of God For the Evulz Madness Mantra Green-Eyed Monster Zombie Stories Made of Explodium Vampire Fiction Damsel in Distress Tagline Pretty Little Headshots Dark Is Not Evil One Steve Limit Dumb Blonde Evil vs. Evil The Great Depression 20 Minutes into the Future Fanservice Extra Department of Redundancy Department Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Be Careful What You Wish For Freudian Excuse Self-Deprecation Sanity Slippage Instant Death Bullet Genre Throwback Drives Like Crazy Annoying Younger Sibling Evil Is Petty Would Hurt a Child What the Hell, Hero? Dying Moment of Awesome Bare Your Midriff Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Russian Films Morality Pet Cruel and Unusual Death Evil Counterpart Police Brutality Anti-Hero Taking the Bullet Babies Ever After Have a Gay Old Time There Is No Kill Like Overkill Punny Name Big Fancy House Dwindling Party Market-Based Title Bloody Hilarious Improbable Weapon User Evil Brit folderlabel All for Nothing Artistic License – Military Jump Scare Martial Arts Movie Noodle Incident Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Rule of Symbolism Animal Motifs Slap-Slap-Kiss Adaptation Expansion Crazy-Prepared Non-Indicative Name Villainous Breakdown Disney Villain Death B-Movie Those Two Bad Guys Agony of the Feet Ambiguous Ending Kill It with Fire Ms. Fanservice Adaptation Dye-Job Faux Affably Evil And Starring Parental Abandonment Blackmail Match Cut Easily Forgiven Arranged Marriage Silent Movie Groin Attack Adaptational Villainy Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Slasher Movie From Bad to Worse Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Ass Shove Genre Savvy Credits Gag Dark Reprise Extreme Doormat Costume Porn Insult Backfire Black Best Friend Brutal Honesty Wham Shot timeperiod Neck Lift Grievous Bottley Harm Pragmatic Villainy My Beloved Smother Immune to Bullets She's Got Legs Kick the Son of a Bitch Big Bad Duumvirate Kids Are Cruel Mythology Gag Cassandra Truth Room Full of Crazy Ambiguous Disorder Flipping the Bird Adaptation Distillation Framing Device Hollywood Darkness Fanservice Guns Akimbo Malevolent Masked Men Only a Flesh Wound Smoking Is Cool Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Better to Die than Be Killed Psychopathic Manchild Beta Couple Pay Evil unto Evil Dark and Troubled Past Laser-Guided Karma The '80s Handicapped Badass You Have Failed Me Romantic Comedy In Medias Res Running Gag Sci-Fi Horror Take That! N-Word Privileges Retirony Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Sole Survivor Imagine Spot Cluster F-Bomb The Hero Dies Punch-Clock Villain Wicked Cultured Line-of-Sight Name Greater-Scope Villain The Sociopath Facial Horror Stepford Smiler Gone Horribly Right Sinister Minister Expository Hairstyle Change Interrupted Suicide Establishing Character Moment The Mafia Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Stalker with a Crush Title Drop Affably Evil I'm a Humanitarian Heroes Want Redheads Even Evil Has Standards Authority Equals Asskicking Motor Mouth Truth in Television Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The Dreaded The Cavalry Asshole Victim Film Noir Index Manchild Intergenerational Friendship Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Stealth Hi/Bye The Mole Calling the Old Man Out Country Matters Gender Flip The Un-Reveal The Hero Happily Married Enemy Mine Danny Peary Cult Movies List Character Development An Aesop Make It Look Like an Accident Domestic Abuse Bloodless Carnage Demoted to Extra Men Are the Expendable Gender I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Broken Pedestal War Is Hell I Need a Freaking Drink Heroic Sacrifice No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Serial Killer Wretched Hive All Men Are Perverts Cold-Blooded Torture Very Loosely Based on a True Story Police are Useless Big "NO!" Badass Normal Eyepatch of Power MacGuffin Jerkass Australian Movies Big Brother Instinct Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Cool Shades Dual Wielding Film Noir Lock and Load Montage Every Car Is a Pinto Diabolus ex Machina Catapult Nightmare Idiot Ball Missing Mom Only Known by Their Nickname Toplessness from the Back The Casanova Meaningful Background Event True Companions Air-Vent Passageway Award-Bait Song Never Trust a Trailer Blatant Lies Soundtrack Dissonance Pre-Mortem One-Liner Chewing the Scenery Parental Incest Well-Intentioned Extremist Honor Before Reason Plucky Comic Relief Mooks Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor The Ghost Manipulative Bastard Badass Bookworm Central Theme Mighty Whitey Destination Defenestration Scare Chord Shoot the Shaggy Dog Large Ham Rousing Speech "Awesome McCool" Name Serious Business The Vamp Children Are Innocent Rated M for Manly Casting Gag Action Survivor Neck Snap Not So Different Jitter Cam Novelization Male Gaze You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! The Dragon Woman Scorned Only One Name Bilingual Bonus Reality Is Unrealistic Adults Are Useless Vomit Discretion Shot Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Friend to All Children Improbable Aiming Skills Actually Pretty Funny Fan Disservice Mexican Standoff Deliberate Values Dissonance Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Dutch Angle Leave the Camera Running Gold Digger Super Strength Real Life Writes the Plot Intrepid Reporter The Chick Film Series Hero of Another Story Training Montage Early Installment Weirdness Your Cheating Heart Papa Wolf Dirty Cop Left the Background Music On Evil Laugh Drill Sergeant Nasty Moment Killer Mystery and Detective Films Failed a Spot Check Call-Forward Reckless Gun Usage What You Are in the Dark Anguished Declaration of Love Adaptational Badass Age Lift Fourth Date Marriage Determinator aka: The Determinator Anachronic Order Empathic Environment Not Using the "Z" Word Fire-Forged Friends The Ditz Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Dark Action Girl Historical-Domain Character Break the Haughty Setting Update Genre Shift Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies And I Must Scream Mad Scientist Thriller This Is Gonna Suck The '90s Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Driven to Suicide Sadistic Choice Canon Foreigner Card-Carrying Villain Epic Fail Documentary Belligerent Sexual Tension Not Quite Dead Science Fiction Films Kick the Dog Lighter and Softer Coming-of-Age Story Ascended Extra Affectionate Parody Adult Fear The Lost Lenore Unusual Euphemism Not Even Bothering with the Accent Ghost Fiction After the End Mugging the Monster Up to Eleven Foreshadowing Freeze-Frame Bonus Small Name, Big Ego Did Not Get the Girl Awesome, but Impractical The Smart Guy Karmic Death Red Herring Death Glare Our Vampires Are Different Fantasy Films Animated Credits Opening Eureka Moment Leaning on the Fourth Wall Brainless Beauty It Will Never Catch On Precision F-Strike In Name Only Body Horror Arch-Enemy Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Obfuscating Stupidity Fun with Acronyms Chase Scene Redshirt Army Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Final Girl Vacation Films Off with His Head! Nice Hat Epic Movie Villain Song Retcon Shower Scene Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Disproportionate Retribution Whole Plot Reference Insistent Terminology Adorkable The Brute Defrosting Ice Queen Made of Iron The Power of Love Vomit Indiscretion Shot Mind Screw Mercy Kill Put on a Bus Hypocritical Humor Darker and Edgier Eye Scream Bait-and-Switch Wounded Gazelle Gambit Author Appeal Hollywood Law The Alleged Car Logo Joke Re-Cut Loophole Abuse Expy Real Life