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Or Is It? And I Must Scream Off-into-the-Distance Ending Bad "Bad Acting" Hair-Trigger Temper Spared by the Adaptation Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Stealth Hi/Bye She's Got Legs Didn't Think This Through Obstructive Bureaucrat The Lancer Small Name, Big Ego An Axe to Grind Shipper on Deck Oh, Crap! Psychopathic Manchild Jerk with a Heart of Gold Took a Level in Badass Improbable Weapon User Humiliation Conga Missing Mom Deus ex Machina Outrun the Fireball Leaning on the Fourth Wall Dull Surprise O.O.C. Is Serious Business Fourth Date Marriage Video Credits Last-Name Basis Fantastic Racism Mistaken for Gay Heel Realization Crucified Hero Shot Immune to Bullets Names to Run Away from Really Fast The '60s Gainax Ending Jerk Jock The Mole All There in the Script Hollywood Law Big Damn Heroes Scary Black Man Cluster F-Bomb Love Triangle The Ghost Early-Bird Cameo Bond One-Liner The Chick Hero of Another Story Papa Wolf Evil Brit Arc Words Costume Porn Laughing Mad Good Is Not Nice It Will Never Catch On Did Not Get the Girl Police are Useless Serial Killer Informed Ability Artistic License – Biology Dressing as the Enemy Empathic Environment Deliberately Monochrome Framing Device Fatal Flaw What the Hell, Hero? Composite Character Gender Flip Lighter and Softer Guile Hero Your Cheating Heart Works Set in World War II Better to Die than Be Killed Plucky Comic Relief Wicked Cultured Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Villain Protagonist Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Imagine Spot Funny Background Event The Casanova Fake Shemp Artistic License – Military Evil Counterpart Twist Ending Expository Hairstyle Change Darker and Edgier Only Sane Man Even Evil Has Loved Ones Big Brother Instinct Together in Death N-Word Privileges Determinator Drill Sergeant Nasty Wham Shot Taking the Bullet Those Two Guys Central Theme Danny Peary Cult Movies List Make It Look Like an Accident Karmic Death Evil Sounds Deep Insult Backfire Eldritch Abomination Bare Your Midriff Adaptational Attractiveness Christmas Movies Index Evil Is Petty Mythology Gag Death Glare Offscreen Teleportation Malevolent Masked Men The Atoner Karma Houdini Pretty in Mink Mundane Made Awesome Almost Kiss Reality Is Unrealistic Needs Wiki Magic Love Silent Movie Running Gag Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie There Is No Kill Like Overkill Stalker with a Crush Green-Eyed Monster Villain Ball The Quiet One Hooker with a Heart of Gold Catapult Nightmare Random Events Plot The '80s Freudian Excuse Ambiguous Disorder Does This Remind You of Anything? Music Stories Historical-Domain Character Cloudcuckoolander Card-Carrying Villain Blood from the Mouth Butt-Monkey Deliberate Values Dissonance Wham Line Would Hurt a Child Scare Chord Mama Bear Darkest Hour Car Fu The Starscream Not What It Looks Like Action Prologue Action Survivor Air-Vent Passageway Eye Scream Diabolus ex Machina Fantasy Films Those Two Bad Guys A.I. Is a Crapshoot Hero Antagonist Genre Savvy Dumb Blonde Ironic Echo Only Known by Their Nickname Those Wacky Nazis Not So Stoic Call-Back Leitmotif The Un-Reveal Romantic Comedy Flipping the Bird Your Head A-Splode Evil Is Hammy Up to Eleven Neck Snap Stealth Pun "Where Are They Now?" 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Anachronism Stew Ship Tease Genre Shift B-Movie Fingore Dramatic Gun Cock Kick the Dog Visual Pun Not Even Bothering with the Accent Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Badass Boast Accidental Murder Coming-of-Age Story Chase Scene Frame-Up Here We Go Again! Final Girl Fate Worse than Death Wounded Gazelle Gambit Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Obviously Evil Cool Shades Berserk Button The Oner Nothing Is Scarier Artistic License – History Pay Evil unto Evil A Date with Rosie Palms Bald of Evil What You Are in the Dark Rich Bitch Narrator The Ace Dramatic Irony Happily Married Dark Reprise Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Easily Forgiven Conspicuous CG Nice Hat Hong Kong Films Black and Gray Morality Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Light Is Not Good Pre-Asskicking One-Liner German Films Rasputinian Death Overly Long Gag Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Catch-Phrase Time Skip Rule of Funny Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Scenery Gorn Anyone Can Die Curse Cut Short Rape as Drama As the Good Book Says... 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Take That! Ambiguously Gay Historical In-Joke Heel–Face Turn Downer Ending Real Life Pretty Little Headshots Crazy Jealous Guy The Smart Guy Domestic Abuse She Cleans Up Nicely Italian Films Dogged Nice Guy Superhero Intrepid Reporter Non-Indicative Name Mexican Standoff Developing Doomed Characters Men Are the Expendable Gender Manipulative Bastard Mooks Facial Horror Even Evil Has Standards Obfuscating Stupidity Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Have a Gay Old Time Flashback Improbable Aiming Skills Vomit Discretion Shot Nice Guy Sinister Minister Actually Pretty Funny Badass Longcoat Riddle for the Ages Gone Horribly Right The Cavalry Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies "Awesome McCool" Name Black Best Friend Only a Flesh Wound Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Red Right Hand Artistic License – Geography Action Genre Evil-Detecting Dog Very Loosely Based on a True Story Gilligan Cut Action Girl The Load 20 Minutes into the Future Once More, with Clarity! Bloody Hilarious Parental Abandonment Unspoken Plan Guarantee "Well Done, Son!" Guy Broken Bird Anti-Hero Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Alliterative Name Fanservice Extra Closed Circle Demonic Possession The Hero Dies Every Car Is a Pinto Parental Incest Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Covers Always Lie Punny Name Reality Ensues The Power of Love The '50s Animal Title Index La Résistance Creepy Child The Mafia Cruel and Unusual Death Contrived Coincidence Whole Plot Reference Animated Credits Opening Armor-Piercing Question Fan Disservice Eiffel Tower Effect Not So Above It All Laser-Guided Karma Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Recycled IN SPACE! Moment Killer Grey and Gray Morality May–December Romance Woman Scorned Deadpan Snarker Drives Like Crazy A God Am I Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Double-Meaning Title Badass Grandpa Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Corpsing Evil Plan Dying Moment of Awesome Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Canadian Movies Cain and Abel Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? The Place Totally Radical Author Appeal Bunny-Ears Lawyer Enemy Mine Shout-Out Stylistic Suck Vacation Films Rule of Cool No Name Given Damsel in Distress Artistic License – Physics Back from the Dead Interrupted Suicide Poor Communication Kills My God, What Have I Done? Rewatch Bonus Break the Haughty Retired Badass Broken Pedestal Daddy's Girl Idiot Ball Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Hoist by His Own Petard True Companions Destination Defenestration Adaptation Name Change Chekhov's Gun Tagline Tap on the Head Shown Their Work Taking You with Me Madness Mantra Aluminum Christmas Trees Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Groin Attack Beauty Is Never Tarnished MacGuffin Never Found the Body Protagonist Title A Father to His Men Only in It for the Money Suspiciously Similar Substitute Death Seeker Pre-Mortem One-Liner Affably Evil Attempted Rape Bury Your Gays Fatal Family Photo After the End Badass in a Nice Suit Continuity Nod British Films Implacable Man Spanner in the Works Pet the Dog Sir Swears-a-Lot Novelization Adaptational Heroism Faking the Dead Brutal Honesty Dirty Cop The Voiceless Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Babies Ever After Major Injury Underreaction Jerkass Has a Point Expy Dissonant Serenity Slasher Movie Department of Redundancy Department Shirtless Scene Manic Pixie Dream Girl Rule of Symbolism Off with His Head! This Is Gonna Suck Heroes Want Redheads Took a Level in Jerkass Award-Bait Song Sole Survivor Rated M for Manly Love at First Sight Science Fiction Films Never Trust a Trailer An Arm and a Leg The '90s Vampire Fiction Reality Has No Subtitles Ripped from the Headlines Pragmatic Villainy Shell-Shocked Veteran Deconstruction Film Series Punch-Clock Villain Daylight Horror Mr. Fanservice Combat Pragmatist The Film of the Book Romantic False Lead Honor Before Reason Bar Brawl Serious Business Ragtag Bunch of Misfits No-Holds-Barred Beatdown No-Sell Early Installment Weirdness I Did What I Had to Do Unwitting Instigator of Doom Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! No OSHA Compliance Meaningful Echo Smug Snake Translation Convention Getting Crap Past the Radar Put on a Bus Artistic License – Gun Safety Book-Ends Dual Wielding From Bad to Worse Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Fish out of Water Offscreen Moment of Awesome Morality Pet Smoking Is Cool Villain with Good Publicity Heroic BSoD Camp Gay For the Evulz