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Riddle for the Ages
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
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Here We Go Again!
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Humans Are Bastards
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
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You Have Failed Me
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Real Life Writes the Plot
Jerkass Has a Point
Camp Gay
Failed a Spot Check
FaceHeel Turn
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Arch-Enemy
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Bring My Brown Pants
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Men Are the Expendable Gender
Sassy Black Woman
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No Celebrities Were Harmed
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Only in It for the Money
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Shipper on Deck
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Canon Foreigner
Light Is Not Good
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Artistic License Law
Bare Your Midriff
Honor Before Reason
Framing Device
Totally Radical
Double-Meaning Title
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Bury Your Gays
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The Hero Dies
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The Alleged Car
Knight Templar
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Meaningful Name
Major Injury Underreaction
Epic Movie
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
From Bad to Worse
Stock Footage
Insane Troll Logic
Author Appeal
Beard of Evil
Make It Look Like an Accident
Darker and Edgier
Guns Akimbo
Obstructive Bureaucrat
Historical-Domain Character
Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Random Events Plot
Disproportionate Retribution
Determinator
Genre Throwback
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Cloudcuckoolander
Manchild
Not What It Looks Like
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Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
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I Have Your Wife
Pay Evil unto Evil
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold
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Spell My Name with an "S"
Corpsing
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Authority Equals Asskicking
Exact Words
Jerk Jock
A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Rule of Cool
Unspoken Plan Guarantee
A Father to His Men
Camera Abuse
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
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Good Is Not Nice
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Celebrity Paradox
Protagonist Title
Villain with Good Publicity
Paper-Thin Disguise
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Victoria's Secret Compartment
Faking the Dead
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Sexy Discretion Shot
Lighter and Softer
Naked People Are Funny
Important Haircut
Didn't Think This Through
Unwitting Instigator of Doom
The Cameo
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Get Out!
Affably Evil
Big Fancy House
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Disney Villain Death
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Henpecked Husband
No Ending
Rated M for Manly
Plot Hole
Amusing Injuries
Alliterative Name
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!
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Never Trust a Trailer
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I Need a Freaking Drink
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Really Gets Around
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Hollywood Law
Improbable Infant Survival
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Playing Gertrude
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Famous Last Words
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
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In Name Only
Does This Remind You of Anything?
Our Vampires Are Different
All Girls Want Bad Boys
For the Evulz
The Place
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Contrived Coincidence
Bullying a Dragon
Broken Aesop
All There in the Script
Fat Bastard
Sinister Minister
Smoking Is Cool
Based on a True Story
Annoying Younger Sibling
And the Adventure Continues
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Hypocritical Humor
Homage
Early Installment Weirdness
As Himself
The Film of the Book
Dressing as the Enemy
Deconstruction
Call-Back
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Morality Pet
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Damsel in Distress
All There in the Manual
Brutal Honesty
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Earn Your Happy Ending
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Reality Is Unrealistic
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Reckless Gun Usage
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All for Nothing
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Would Hurt a Child
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The Voiceless
Ghost Fiction
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Scenery Porn
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Obfuscating Stupidity
Anachronism Stew
The Dog Bites Back
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
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Put on a Bus
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast
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Children Are Innocent
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Say My Name
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My Beloved Smother
Unresolved Sexual Tension
Babies Ever After
Married to the Job
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Ship Tease
Too Dumb to Live
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Jerkass
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Taking You with Me
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Defrosting Ice Queen
"The Reason You Suck" Speech
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Room Full of Crazy
She Cleans Up Nicely
Fanservice Extra
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Bi the Way
Wrong Genre Savvy
Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Age Lift
It's All About Me
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Love Triangle
Evil Brit
No-Sell
Bloody Hilarious
Sci-Fi Horror
Have a Gay Old Time
Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Scary Black Man
Pragmatic Adaptation
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Would Hit a Girl
Evil Counterpart
Sealed Evil in a Can
Cool Guns
As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Male Gaze
Thriller
Karmic Death
Never Found the Body
Cain and Abel
Artistic License Military
Cool Car
Anguished Declaration of Love
Cat Fight
Evil-Detecting Dog
Our Zombies Are Different
Bottomless Magazines
Drowning My Sorrows
Biopic
Everyone Has Standards
The Alcoholic
Martial Arts Movie
Be Careful What You Wish For
Disney Death
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No Name Given
Star-Crossed Lovers
Older Than They Look
Rape as Drama
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Shell-Shocked Veteran
The Smurfette Principle
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Decoy Protagonist
Improvised Weapon
Neck Lift
Kubrick Stare
Evil Sounds Deep
Kill It with Fire
Implacable Man
Animal Title Index
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Serial Killer
Super Strength
O.O.C. Is Serious Business
'80s Hair
No Antagonist
Suspiciously Specific Denial
Big-Bad Ensemble
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Awesome, but Impractical
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Dual Wielding
Gold Digger
Animal Motifs
How We Got Here
Hypocrite
Never Trust a Trailer
Intrepid Reporter
Vomit Discretion Shot
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Ax-Crazy
Face Death with Dignity
Your Head A-Splode
Dark Action Girl
One Steve Limit
World of Ham
Evil Plan
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Once More, with Clarity!
No OSHA Compliance
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What You Are in the Dark
Badass Normal
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Psychological Thriller
Friend to All Children
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Immune to Bullets
Epic Fail
Those Two Guys
Broken Bird
Bad Boss
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Rule of Symbolism
Death of a Child
Slap-Slap-Kiss
Take That!
Gainax Ending
Malevolent Masked Men
Action Genre
Badass Longcoat
Blood Knight
Wham Line
Bland-Name Product
True Companions
Loophole Abuse
Armor-Piercing Question
La Résistance
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Improbable Aiming Skills
Precision F-Strike
The Mole
It's Personal
Whole Plot Reference
Real Life
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
The Big Guy
Accidental Misnaming
Eyepatch of Power
Breaking the Fourth Wall
As the Good Book Says...
Fish out of Water
Mistaken for Gay
Straight Gay
This Is Gonna Suck
Developing Doomed Characters
Tap on the Head
Eldritch Abomination
Dogged Nice Guy
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
All Men Are Perverts
For Want of a Nail
Word of God
Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Self-Deprecation
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The Great Depression
Defiant to the End
Downer Ending
Pretty in Mink
Romantic Comedy
Roger Ebert: Great Movies List
Jump Scare
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Smug Snake
Take a Third Option
Only One Name
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Cat Scare
Those Two Bad Guys
The Ditz
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Badass Grandpa
Badass Boast
Villainous Breakdown
Parental Incest
Artistic License Physics
Dutch Angle
Police Brutality
British Films
Knife Nut
Evil Laugh
Punny Name
Suddenly SHOUTING!
Calling the Old Man Out
The X of Y
Body Horror
Unreliable Narrator
Extreme Doormat
Beta Couple
Beware the Nice Ones
Reality Ensues
Adaptational Attractiveness
Mad Scientist
Ambiguously Gay
Gilligan Cut
Adaptation Expansion
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Kids Are Cruel
Dropped a Bridge on Him
Artistic License History
Ms. Fanservice
Anyone Can Die
The '50s
Apocalypse How
Music Stories
Award-Bait Song
Dumb Blonde
Villain Opening Scene
Villain Song
Creator Cameo
Continuity Nod
He Who Fights Monsters
Reality Has No Subtitles
Toplessness from the Back
Mama Bear
Historical Hero Upgrade
Butt-Monkey
Black Comedy Rape
Crapsack World
Foregone Conclusion
Drill Sergeant Nasty
As You Know
Villain Ball
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Nice Guy
Dramatic Irony
The Hero
Mythology Gag
Left the Background Music On
Happily Married
Final Girl
Wicked Cultured
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Auto Erotica
Cool Old Guy
Heterosexual Life-Partners
The Stinger
Adaptational Villainy
Token Minority
Not Quite Dead
Outrun the Fireball
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Death by Sex
Card-Carrying Villain
From Nobody to Nightmare
Extremely Short Timespan
Broken Pedestal
Rasputinian Death
Funny Foreigner
Stuff Blowing Up
Loads and Loads of Characters
Meaningful Echo
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Kick the Dog
It Will Never Catch On
Adults Are Useless
Sir Swears-a-Lot
Meet Cute
Hero Antagonist
Expy
Hidden Depths
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
An Axe to Grind
Made of Explodium
Berserk Button
Did Not Get the Girl
Took a Level in Badass
Fire-Forged Friends
Leitmotif
Shout-Out
Chewing the Scenery
Sacrificial Lion
Throwing Your Sword Always Works
Brick Joke
Adaptational Badass
Better to Die than Be Killed
Took a Level in Jerkass
There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
All Just a Dream
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Big Bad
Bloodless Carnage
Revenge
Horror Comedy
Public Domain Feature Films
Storming the Castle
Even Evil Has Standards
BrotherSister Incest
Funny Background Event
Rousing Speech
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Double Entendre
Mr. Exposition
Facial Horror
Ripped from the Headlines
Danny Peary Cult Movies List
Death Glare
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Running Gag
Betty and Veronica
Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Anti-Hero
One-Word Title
Ungrateful Bastard
Deal with the Devil
Not Using the "Z" Word
Actor Allusion
Cruel and Unusual Death
Every Car Is a Pinto
Enemy Mine
Gender Flip
Spared by the Adaptation
Bar Brawl
Improbable Weapon User
Moment Killer
Needs Wiki Magic Love
Taking the Bullet
Shirtless Scene
Small Name, Big Ego
Red Right Hand
Manly Tears
Book-Ends
Does Not Like Shoes
One-Man Army
Mugging the Monster
Sanity Slippage
Race Lift
Badass Bookworm
Central Theme
Big Brother Instinct
The Load
Fantastic Racism
Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
Freudian Excuse
I Did What I Had to Do
And Starring
Greater-Scope Villain
Wretched Hive
The Ace
Madness Mantra
Cassandra Truth
In the Back
She's Got Legs
Only a Flesh Wound
Mundane Made Awesome
Sequel Escalation
20 Minutes into the Future
Police are Useless
Worthy Opponent
Lampshade Hanging
Shut Up, Hannibal!
Retcon
Abusive Parents
Cool Old Lady
Killed Mid-Sentence
Love at First Sight
Black Dude Dies First
Novelization
Wounded Gazelle Gambit
The Lancer
Dissonant Serenity
Historical Villain Upgrade
Dark Is Not Evil
Rule of Three
Pet the Dog
Driven to Suicide
Half the Man He Used to Be
Break the Cutie
Woman in White
After the End
Depraved Bisexual
Drives Like Crazy
Naïve Newcomer
Idiot Ball
Boom, Headshot!
Flashback
Affectionate Parody
Slashed Throat
Adaptation Distillation
Demoted to Extra
Artistic License Gun Safety
Title Drop
Disappeared Dad
Author Avatar
Fatal Flaw
Trailers Always Spoil
He Knows Too Much
BFG
Insistent Terminology