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Curse Cut Short Heroic BSoD Horror Films Cowboy Cop Rule of Funny The Load No Celebrities Were Harmed Television Movie Index Hooker with a Heart of Gold Character Development Mama Bear Bloodier and Gorier La Résistance Broken Pedestal Action Survivor Not What It Looks Like Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Does This Remind You of Anything? Light Is Not Good One Steve Limit Dissonant Serenity Ambiguously Gay Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Bad "Bad Acting" Index of Film Westerns The Alleged Car Jerk with a Heart of Gold Arranged Marriage And the Adventure Continues Darker and Edgier Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Unwitting Instigator of Doom It's Personal Undying Loyalty Four-Temperament Ensemble Random Events Plot Animal Title Index Face–Heel Turn Get Out! Shut Up, Hannibal! Tempting Fate Revenge Rewatch Bonus Evil Is Petty Once More, with Clarity! 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Is a Crapshoot Handicapped Badass Psychological Thriller Ascended Extra Skewed Priorities Evil Laugh Honor Before Reason Overly Long Gag Badass Bookworm Action Genre Villainous Breakdown Spanner in the Works Batman Gambit Show Within a Show Russian Films Public Domain Feature Films Scenery Porn Properly Paranoid Based on a True Story Storming the Castle Guile Hero Deliberately Monochrome Shout-Out Eyepatch of Power Badass Boast The '80s Frame-Up Cat Fight The Smurfette Principle Grievous Bottley Harm Parental Abandonment Outrun the Fireball Slasher Movie Casting Gag Mexican Standoff Beta Couple Killed Mid-Sentence Karma Houdini Babies Ever After Alas, Poor Villain She Cleans Up Nicely The Reveal Never Found the Body Epic Fail Re-Cut Riddle for the Ages Those Two Guys Five-Man Band The '90s Actually Pretty Funny Parental Incest Posthumous Character "Well Done, Son!" 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Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Big Eater Brutal Honesty Neck Lift The X of Y Dramatic Gun Cock Exact Words No-Sell Dying Moment of Awesome Loads and Loads of Characters Word of God Evil Sounds Deep The Mafia Reality Is Unrealistic Good Is Not Nice No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Historical In-Joke Dirty Cop The Ace Jerkass Big Brother Instinct Drill Sergeant Nasty Adaptational Badass Bullying a Dragon Cool Old Lady Unusual Euphemism Overprotective Dad Ship Tease Villain Ball Kill 'em All Funny Background Event Visual Pun Flipping the Bird From Bad to Worse Retirony One-Word Title In Name Only Death by Irony Despair Event Horizon Fat Bastard Deconstruction Artistic License – Military Every Car Is a Pinto Foil Anyone Can Die Fan Disservice Men Are the Expendable Gender "Where Are They Now?" 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They Really Do Love Each Other Documentary Closed Circle Badass Grandpa Madness Mantra Throwing Your Sword Always Works Decoy Protagonist Historical Hero Upgrade Reality Has No Subtitles Heroes Want Redheads Gainax Ending Psycho for Hire Needs Wiki Magic Love Demoted to Extra Funny Foreigner Mind Screw Black Best Friend The '70s Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Adaptation Name Change Anguished Declaration of Love Chekhov's Skill The Power of Love Make It Look Like an Accident Fanservice Death of a Child Darkest Hour Pretty in Mink Bloodless Carnage Logo Joke Match Cut Book-Ends Central Theme Department of Redundancy Department Fatal Flaw Extremely Short Timespan Arch-Enemy folderlabel Intergenerational Friendship Author Avatar Fun with Acronyms Punny Name You Have Failed Me Protagonist Title Fatal Family Photo Married to the Job Badass Longcoat Made of Iron Calling the Old Man Out Rated M for Manly There Is No Kill Like Overkill Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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