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