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Stealth Hi/Bye Fatal Flaw Manic Pixie Dream Girl Artistic License – Law Bring My Brown Pants Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Ambiguous Disorder Adaptation Expansion Earn Your Happy Ending Villain Protagonist Bittersweet Ending Card-Carrying Villain The Stoic Antagonist Title Butt-Monkey I Did What I Had to Do German Films Japanese Films Important Haircut Belligerent Sexual Tension Boom, Headshot! Kill 'em All Enemy Mine Paper-Thin Disguise Animal Title Index All Men Are Perverts British Films The Faceless Hope Spot Smoking Is Cool Taking the Bullet Leitmotif Hong Kong Films Laser-Guided Karma Pragmatic Adaptation Heterosexual Life-Partners Serious Business The '50s Let's Get Dangerous! Evil Is Petty Missing Mom May–December Romance Freudian Excuse One-Word Title Anguished Declaration of Love Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Unreliable Narrator Intrepid Reporter Dramedy Cain and Abel Hoist by His Own Petard Heroic Sacrifice Make It Look Like an Accident Shipper on Deck You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The '80s Scenery Gorn Evil Sounds Deep Back from the Dead Show Within a Show Badass Grandpa Not So Above It All Those Wacky Nazis Improvised Weapon Nice Hat An Aesop As the Good Book Says... The Mole Straight Gay folderlabel Hate Sink Public Domain Feature Films Chase Scene Match Cut Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Call-Back Unspoken Plan Guarantee Accidental Misnaming Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Red Oni, Blue Oni Fantastic Racism Parental Incest Agony of the Feet Hell Is That Noise Dies Wide Open Parental Abandonment Bland-Name Product What You Are in the Dark Pyrrhic Victory Corpsing The Stinger Papa Wolf Slasher Smile Cluster F-Bomb Rule of Cool The Place Instant Death Bullet Ambiguous Ending Affably Evil Does This Remind You of Anything? Heel Realization Mad Scientist Fourth Date Marriage The Dreaded Homage Even Evil Has Loved Ones Bunny-Ears Lawyer Fat Bastard Gone Horribly Right Evil Brit Translation Convention Downer Ending Deus ex Machina Mood Whiplash Nothing Is Scarier Beauty Is Never Tarnished Red Eyes, Take Warning Bloody Hilarious Broken Bird Red Shirt I Have Your Wife Daddy's Girl Beware the Nice Ones Wicked Cultured Pay Evil unto Evil Kick the Son of a Bitch Creator Cameo Super Strength Anti-Hero Blackmail No OSHA Compliance Villain with Good Publicity Only One Name Room Full of Crazy Call-Forward Naïve Newcomer Suddenly SHOUTING! Off-into-the-Distance Ending Red Herring Heroes Want Redheads Unwitting Instigator of Doom Stepford Smiler Good Is Not Nice And the Adventure Continues Closed Circle Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Destination Defenestration Bound and Gagged '80s Hair Fun with Acronyms Once More, with Clarity! Adaptational Attractiveness Music Stories Blood from the Mouth Ripped from the Headlines Psychopathic Manchild Animated Credits Opening Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Punny Name Spiritual Successor Stuff Blowing Up Token Minority Meaningful Background Event Death by Irony It Will Never Catch On The Un-Reveal More Dakka Not Using the "Z" Word Hero of Another Story N-Word Privileges Retired Badass Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? All for Nothing Love at First Sight Bowdlerise What the Hell, Hero? Book-Ends I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Put on a Bus Moment Killer I Need a Freaking Drink A Minor Kidroduction "Well Done, Son!" 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Fainting Your Head A-Splode Training Montage Mama Bear Interrupted Suicide Self-Deprecation Hypocritical Humor Flashback Evil Is Hammy Australian Movies Visual Pun "The Reason You Suck" Speech A.I. Is a Crapshoot Bury Your Gays Cassandra Truth The Lancer Artistic License – Gun Safety Those Two Guys Romantic False Lead Martial Arts Movie Ironic Echo Bi the Way Domestic Abuse Film Noir Index Darker and Edgier Married to the Job Mooks Exact Words Crucified Hero Shot Together in Death Villain Opening Scene Bolivian Army Ending Kids Are Cruel Video Credits Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Overprotective Dad Death by Adaptation Bond Villain Stupidity As You Know Dramatic Gun Cock Chekhov's Gunman Camera Abuse Exactly What It Says on the Tin Breaking the Fourth Wall Gory Discretion Shot Annoying Younger Sibling The '60s The Ghost Alpha Bitch Poor Communication Kills Police Brutality Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Silence Is Golden Evil vs. Evil Your Cheating Heart Villain Ball Disproportionate Retribution The Stoner She Cleans Up Nicely Pretty in Mink Toplessness from the Back Madness Mantra Did Not Get the Girl Novelization Black Best Friend Faux Affably Evil Tap on the Head Eye Scream Alliterative Name Undying Loyalty Lampshade Hanging Took a Level in Badass Covers Always Lie Dogged Nice Guy Jerk Jock Gorn Mistaken for Gay Curse Cut Short Pet the Dog The X of Y Composite Character Guns Akimbo Break the Cutie 20 Minutes into the Future Extreme Doormat Scare Chord Body Horror Artistic License – History Frame-Up Light Is Not Good Product Placement Irony From Nobody to Nightmare Playing Gertrude Documentary Mundane Made Awesome Shown Their Work Car Fu Bullying a Dragon Wrong Genre Savvy Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Anachronism Stew Actor Allusion Ass Shove Heel–Face Turn Christmas Movies Index Big-Bad Ensemble Never Found the Body Vampire Fiction Deliberate Values Dissonance War Is Hell Advertised Extra Karmic Death Becoming the Mask The Remake A God Am I Trailers Always Spoil Historical-Domain Character Final Girl Line-of-Sight Name Brick Joke Wham Shot Asshole Victim Wretched Hive Horror Comedy Suspiciously Similar Substitute Armor-Piercing Question Non-Indicative Name All There in the Script Disappeared Dad There Is No Kill Like Overkill Be Careful What You Wish For Would Hurt a Child Star-Crossed Lovers Adaptation Distillation The End... 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Peek-a-Boo Corpse After the End Ominous Latin Chanting It's Personal Broken Pedestal Ax-Crazy Our Vampires Are Different Television Movie Index Danny Peary Cult Movies List Auto Erotica Authority Equals Asskicking The Casanova An Axe to Grind Funny Background Event Unusually Uninteresting Sight Sinister Minister Bottomless Magazines Face Death with Dignity Only a Flesh Wound The Alleged Car Running Gag Dirty Coward Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Bad Boss Real Life Writes the Plot Morality Pet Deal with the Devil Credits Gag Artistic License – Biology Scenery Porn Made of Iron Fingore Arch-Enemy Distracted by the Sexy For Want of a Nail Offscreen Teleportation Hypocrite Alas, Poor Villain Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Cool Old Lady All Girls Want Bad Boys Never Trust a Trailer Intergenerational Friendship Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Only Known by Their Nickname Abhorrent Admirer "Awesome McCool" Name Big Bad Duumvirate Death of a Child And I Must Scream Every Car Is a Pinto The Starscream Early Installment Weirdness Blood Knight Happily Married Big Fancy House Big Applesauce Black Comedy Cool Guns Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Ship Tease Spanner in the Works Time Skip Superhero Everyone Has Standards Drives Like Crazy Arranged Marriage Loophole Abuse Totally Radical Bait-and-Switch Take That! Kick the Dog For the Evulz Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Humans Are Bastards Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Would Hit a Girl Not So Stoic Unusual Euphemism Film Noir Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Disney Villain Death Bar Brawl Gender Flip Captain Obvious Needs Wiki Magic Love Hollywood Law Obviously Evil Tranquil Fury Black Comedy Rape Hero Antagonist No Ending Evil Laugh You Killed My Father Politically Incorrect Villain Jerk with a Heart of Gold Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Monumental Damage Captain Ersatz Children Are Innocent Scary Black Man Canadian Movies Damsel in Distress Only Sane Man Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Rasputinian Death Implacable Man NO INDOOR VOICE Didn't Think This Through Anti-Villain And Starring Dying Moment of Awesome Vacation Films Double Entendre Sealed Evil in a Can Coming-of-Age Story Silent Movie Continuity Nod Not Quite Dead Redemption Equals Death Femme Fatale Action Survivor Manly Tears Break the Haughty From Bad to Worse Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Eiffel Tower Effect Bare Your Midriff Cowboy Cop Oh, Crap! Dumb Blonde Eureka Moment Cat Fight Slasher Movie Mexican Standoff I'm a Humanitarian Wham Line The Film of the Book Failed a Spot Check Woman in White Meaningful Echo Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Victoria's Secret Compartment Funny Foreigner Henpecked Husband Big Brother Instinct Dark and Troubled Past Military and Warfare Films Foreshadowing Creative Closing Credits Insult Backfire The Load Stealth Pun Cool Car Chiaroscuro Stylistic Suck Department of Redundancy Department Jerkass Has a Point "Where Are They Now?" 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Serial Killer Informed Ability Big Eater BFG The Bully Arc Words Soundtrack Dissonance Deconstruction Hidden Depths Dissonant Serenity Market-Based Title One Steve Limit Canon Foreigner Animal Motifs Pretty Little Headshots Punch-Clock Villain Black and Gray Morality Crazy Jealous Guy Character Development The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Neck Lift The Lost Lenore Artistic License – Physics Developing Doomed Characters Gold Digger Loads and Loads of Characters Fan Disservice Framing Device Freeze-Frame Bonus Bond One-Liner Action Prologue Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Demoted to Extra Word of God Dirty Cop An Arm and a Leg Reckless Gun Usage Up to Eleven Leave the Camera Running Bavarian Fire Drill Truth in Television Sanity Slippage Establishing Character Moment Chewing the Scenery Our Zombies Are Different The Chessmaster Brother–Sister Incest Riddle for the Ages Roaring Rampage of Revenge Police are Useless Genre Shift The Vamp Death Seeker Cat Scare World of Ham Aside Glance Parental Neglect Random Events Plot Not So Different Mystery and Detective Films Jerkass Offscreen Moment of Awesome How We Got Here One-Man Army Expy Fate Worse than Death Historical In-Joke Knight Templar Motor Mouth Laughing Mad Conspicuous CG Redshirt Army Historical Villain Upgrade Babies Ever After Author Avatar Early-Bird Cameo Awesome, but Impractical Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Reality Ensues Too Dumb to Live Grey and Gray Morality Faking the Dead Vitriolic Best Buds Tempting Fate Epic Fail Dark Is Not Evil Title Drop Mugging the Monster Drowning My Sorrows Male Frontal Nudity Chekhov's Gun Men Are the Expendable Gender Protagonist Title Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Famous Last Words Very Loosely Based on a True Story My Beloved Smother Thriller Love Triangle Crazy-Prepared Suspiciously Specific Denial Gilligan Cut Storming the Castle Corrupt Corporate Executive Twist Ending Yandere Celebrity Paradox Plot Hole Mercy Kill Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Adult Fear My Greatest Failure The Cavalry Imagine Spot Shower Scene The Hero Beard of Evil Dark Action Girl "Shaggy Dog" Story Revenge Rich Bitch The Power of Love Knife Nut Ambiguously Gay This Is Gonna Suck Extremely Short Timespan Foregone Conclusion Karma Houdini Comically Missing the Point Man on Fire Casting Gag Dirty Old Man You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Recycled IN SPACE! Red Right Hand Nice Guy