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Bury Your Gays
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Children Are Innocent
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All Girls Want Bad Boys
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Face Death with Dignity
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Anyone Can Die
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One-Man Army
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From Bad to Worse
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Spell My Name with an "S"
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Truth in Television
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Never My Fault
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Big "NO!"
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Once More, with Clarity!
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My Greatest Failure
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She's Got Legs
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Covers Always Lie
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
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Light Is Not Good
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Betty and Veronica
No Celebrities Were Harmed
I Need a Freaking Drink
Break the Cutie
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
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Let's Get Dangerous!
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Cain and Abel
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Christmas Movies Index
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Defiant to the End
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Pay Evil unto Evil
What Happened to the Mouse?
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Would Hurt a Child
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Red Eyes, Take Warning
No-Sell
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Hell Is That Noise
Ambiguous Ending
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
"Shaggy Dog" Story
The Great Depression
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It's All About Me
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Mr. Exposition
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Up to Eleven
Shut Up, Hannibal!
Knife Nut
And Starring
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Woman Scorned
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Only One Name
Fun with Acronyms
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Ripped from the Headlines
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Kick the Son of a Bitch
Big-Bad Ensemble
No Ending
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Vacation Films
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Based on a True Story
It Will Never Catch On
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Punny Name
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Woman in White
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What the Hell, Hero?
Even Evil Has Standards
Men Are the Expendable Gender
Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
Vampire Fiction
Red Herring
Psycho for Hire
No Name Given
Badass Bookworm
Frame-Up
An Axe to Grind
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Ungrateful Bastard
Monumental Damage
My Beloved Smother
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Daddy's Girl
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Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
Parental Substitute
For the Evulz
For Want of a Nail
Slap-Slap-Kiss
Henpecked Husband
Beta Couple
Kubrick Stare
Here We Go Again!
Laughing Mad
Alas, Poor Villain
Domestic Abuse
Only Sane Man
Country Matters
"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Mistaken for Gay
Central Theme
Wretched Hive
Loads and Loads of Characters
Broken Aesop
Handicapped Badass
Dramatic Irony
All There in the Manual
Your Head A-Splode
Deus ex Machina
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Your Cheating Heart
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Rousing Speech
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Worthy Opponent
You Have Failed Me
Hypocritical Humor
Crazy-Prepared
Scary Black Man
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Toilet Humour
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Mr. Fanservice
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Missing Mom
Sequel Hook
Heterosexual Life-Partners
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience
Market-Based Title
MacGuffin
Dressing as the Enemy
As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Gender Flip
Rule of Symbolism
Logo Joke
Pun
aka: Incredibly Lame Pun
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Faking the Dead
Anti-Hero
Evil vs. Evil
"Awesome McCool" Name
The '80s
Drowning My Sorrows
Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Leitmotif
The Chick
Manchild
Deliberate Values Dissonance
Put on a Bus
Evil Is Hammy
Dies Wide Open
Cassandra Truth
Plot Hole
Bullying a Dragon
Disney Villain Death
Stalker with a Crush
Title Drop
Last-Name Basis
A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Actually Pretty Funny
Maybe Ever After
Playing Gertrude
Cool Old Lady
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Mugging the Monster
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Funny Background Event
As Himself
Ship Tease
Historical Hero Upgrade
Small Name, Big Ego
Cluster F-Bomb
Call-Back
Victoria's Secret Compartment
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge
A Date with Rosie Palms
Stuff Blowing Up
Madness Mantra
Cat Scare
The Mole
Advertised Extra
Wicked Cultured