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Reality Is Unrealistic Very Loosely Based on a True Story Decoy Protagonist Faux Affably Evil Captain Ersatz Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Dark Is Not Evil Grievous Bottley Harm Stylistic Suck folderlabel Homage Red Shirt Red Herring Film Noir Index Almost Kiss Artistic License – History Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Evil Laugh Random Events Plot Mighty Whitey The Dreaded Loophole Abuse Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique The Cameo Reality Has No Subtitles Russian Films Domestic Abuse Mr. Fanservice Big Fancy House Dumb Blonde Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Cool Old Lady Bond One-Liner The Quiet One Intrepid Reporter Chewing the Scenery Knife Nut Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Smoking Is Cool Developing Doomed Characters Fate Worse than Death NO INDOOR VOICE Not So Above It All Maybe Ever After Eiffel Tower Effect Off with His Head! 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Insistent Terminology Sinister Minister Hope Spot She's Got Legs Police are Useless Video Credits The Casanova Manly Tears Disguised in Drag Intergenerational Friendship Psychopathic Manchild Distracted by the Sexy For the Evulz Action Prologue Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Thriller Dies Wide Open Guile Hero Attempted Rape Bolivian Army Ending Meaningful Echo Famous Last Words Artistic License – Gun Safety Chekhov's Gunman Cowboy Cop Scenery Gorn Small Name, Big Ego The Alleged Car Scare Chord Chiaroscuro Knight Templar Not Even Bothering with the Accent My Greatest Failure Retcon Australian Movies Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Death by Adaptation Evil Is Hammy Unreliable Narrator Made of Explodium Heel–Face Turn Beta Couple Tagline Brutal Honesty Funny Foreigner Naked People Are Funny Double-Meaning Title Mythology Gag Big Bad Not Using the "Z" Word Asshole Victim Continuity Nod The Hero Dies Betty and Veronica Star-Crossed Lovers The '50s Ass Shove Punch-Clock Villain Rasputinian Death Country Matters Twist Ending Male Gaze Age Lift Love at First Sight Gorn Hell Is That Noise There Is No Kill Like Overkill Kill 'em All Awesome, but Impractical Demonic Possession Storming the Castle Does This Remind You of Anything? Military and Warfare Films Sequel Escalation Super Strength Sexy Discretion Shot Creator Cameo Composite Character Ax-Crazy Camp Gay Jerk Jock Soft Glass Would Hurt a Child Psycho for Hire Car Fu Disney Villain Death Shut Up, Hannibal! 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The Chick Credits Gag Papa Wolf Artistic License – Geography Show Within a Show Adaptational Attractiveness Expy Bury Your Gays Death by Irony Man on Fire Aluminum Christmas Trees Freeze-Frame Bonus The Stoner Drives Like Crazy Expository Hairstyle Change Five-Man Band A God Am I Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Rule of Three Cool Shades Fish out of Water Evil vs. Evil Big-Bad Ensemble Fat Bastard "The Reason You Suck" Speech Adaptation Expansion Pretty Little Headshots Gender Flip Reasonable Authority Figure Bald of Evil Casting Gag Face–Heel Turn Epic Fail Public Domain Feature Films Madness Mantra Recycled IN SPACE! Rape as Drama Action Girl The Smurfette Principle "Well Done, Son!" Guy Drowning My Sorrows Earn Your Happy Ending Apocalypse How La Résistance A Date with Rosie Palms Anachronism Stew Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil From Nobody to Nightmare Riddle for the Ages Corpsing It's Personal Big Damn Heroes Shell-Shocked Veteran Drugs Are Bad Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Animal Motifs The Ghost Red Oni, Blue Oni I Need a Freaking Drink Humiliation Conga Beard of Evil N-Word Privileges Enemy Mine I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Informed Ability Gone Horribly Right Jerkass Visual Pun Line-of-Sight Name An Axe to Grind Revenge The Great Depression The Starscream Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! No Ending Your Cheating Heart A.I. Is a Crapshoot Abhorrent Admirer What Happened to the Mouse? 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Epilogue Spanner in the Works Parental Abandonment Actor Allusion Good Is Not Nice Psychological Thriller Scary Black Man Horror Films All Men Are Perverts Older Than They Look The Mole Anguished Declaration of Love Based on a True Story You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Ironic Echo It's All About Me Whole Plot Reference The Mafia Self-Deprecation Meet Cute Re-Cut Hong Kong Films Shout-Out Red Eyes, Take Warning Large Ham Vitriolic Best Buds Flipping the Bird Danny Peary Cult Movies List Deus ex Machina Setting Update No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Broken Pedestal Last-Name Basis The Lancer "Awesome McCool" Name Mr. Exposition Determinator Babies Ever After Spared by the Adaptation Paper-Thin Disguise Gilligan Cut Freudian Excuse Hoist by His Own Petard Groin Attack Bowdlerise Skewed Priorities Romantic Comedy Green-Eyed Monster Superhero Bad "Bad Acting" Training Montage Once More, with Clarity! 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More Dakka Getting Crap Past the Radar The Chessmaster Henpecked Husband Foregone Conclusion Fingore Brick Joke Leave the Camera Running Important Haircut Cat Scare Not What It Looks Like Serious Business Token Minority Music Stories Black Comedy My Beloved Smother Artistic License – Biology Driven to Suicide Male Frontal Nudity Lock and Load Montage Irony Not So Stoic Due to the Dead Meaningful Name The '90s Obviously Evil Blatant Lies Darkest Hour Index of Film Westerns Wounded Gazelle Gambit Call-Back Taking the Bullet Rule of Symbolism Redshirt Army Alas, Poor Villain O.O.C. Is Serious Business All Girls Want Bad Boys Worthy Opponent Never My Fault Deliberately Monochrome Neck Snap Curb-Stomp Battle Offscreen Moment of Awesome The Stoic Improvised Weapon Big Applesauce Ambiguous Ending You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! And I Must Scream Book-Ends Adorkable Shower Scene You Have Failed Me Evil Counterpart As You Know Major Injury Underreaction Science Fiction Films The Musical Card-Carrying Villain Cain and Abel Cat Fight Bound and Gagged Put on a Bus Villain Ball Mystery and Detective Films Coming-of-Age Story For Want of a Nail Unwitting Instigator of Doom Deliberate Values Dissonance Canon Foreigner Heroic Sacrifice Retirony Evil Cannot Comprehend Good And the Adventure Continues Brainless Beauty The Bully MacGuffin Even Evil Has Standards Berserk Button Zombie Stories Dual Wielding Adaptational Villainy Pay Evil unto Evil Beauty Is Never Tarnished Time Skip Fantastic Racism '80s Hair The End... Or Is It? 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