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Cassandra Truth A Minor Kidroduction Naked People Are Funny Pretty Little Headshots Disney Death Smug Snake Historical-Domain Character Self-Deprecation Mystery and Detective Films Unwitting Instigator of Doom Author Avatar Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Australian Movies Retirony Adaptation Distillation Slashed Throat Title Drop N-Word Privileges Leaning on the Fourth Wall Big Fancy House Heel Realization Not Using the "Z" Word Crazy-Prepared Plucky Comic Relief Does This Remind You of Anything? Leave the Camera Running Freeze-Frame Bonus Canadian Movies A God Am I Celebrity Paradox Nothing Is Scarier Stealth Hi/Bye Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Knight Templar It's All About Me Based on a True Story The Lost Lenore Karmic Death Stealth Pun Crapsack World Downer Ending Hope Spot Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Made of Explodium Genre Throwback Would Hurt a Child Men Are the Expendable Gender Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Casanova Better to Die than Be Killed Epic Fail Cool Old Guy Henpecked Husband NO INDOOR VOICE Blatant Lies The '90s Empathic Environment Flipping the Bird Gorn Mad Scientist The End... Or Is It? Noodle Incident Mood Whiplash Peek-a-Boo Corpse The Smart Guy Villain with Good Publicity Captain Ersatz Beta Couple Poor Communication Kills Protagonist Title Market-Based Title Danny Peary Cult Movies List Exactly What It Says on the Tin The Bully Love Triangle Anyone Can Die Early-Bird Cameo Lock and Load Montage The Place Half the Man He Used to Be Immune to Bullets Tagline Drill Sergeant Nasty Guile Hero One-Man Army Russian Films Suspiciously Similar Substitute Fate Worse than Death Badass Bookworm No Name Given No Antagonist No Celebrities Were Harmed Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Ghost Fiction Bloodless Carnage Sequel Escalation Reckless Gun Usage Killed Mid-Sentence Film Noir Christmas Movies Index Evil Is Petty Translation Convention Rated M for Manly Together in Death Boom, Headshot! Italian Films Even Evil Has Standards Refuge in Audacity Heel–Face Turn Stuff Blowing Up Tempting Fate Fainting Here We Go Again! Artistic License – Military Distracted by the Sexy Accidental Murder My God, What Have I Done? "Awesome McCool" Name Fiery Redhead Laser-Guided Karma Did Not Get the Girl The Chessmaster The Big Guy Covers Always Lie Hero Antagonist Ominous Latin Chanting Real Life Writes the Plot The Bad Guy Wins Rule of Symbolism Pragmatic Villainy Revenge Gilligan Cut Gold Digger Air-Vent Passageway Horror Comedy Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Bottomless Magazines Not So Above It All Badass Longcoat Alpha Bitch Married to the Job Foreshadowing Not Quite Dead Took a Level in Jerkass Brainless Beauty Dies Wide Open Not So Stoic Advertised Extra Cruel and Unusual Death Dark Action Girl Make It Look Like an Accident folderlabel Famous Last Words Didn't Think This Through Beard of Evil Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Television Movie Index Ripped from the Headlines She Cleans Up Nicely Match Cut Action Genre Brutal Honesty Bare Your Midriff Blood from the Mouth Affably Evil Jerkass Has a Point Actor Allusion Death by Irony Random Events Plot Gone Horribly Right All for Nothing Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Face–Heel Turn Manic Pixie Dream Girl Humans Are Bastards Domestic Abuse Adult Fear Taking You with Me Large Ham Straight Gay timeperiod Dual Wielding Actually Pretty Funny Hong Kong Films The Mafia No Ending Everyone Has Standards You Have Failed Me Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Karma Houdini Big-Bad Ensemble Wounded Gazelle Gambit Jitter Cam Shirtless Scene Artistic License – Gun Safety Conspicuous CG Happily Married Adaptational Attractiveness Friend to All Children Let's Get Dangerous! No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Spared by the Adaptation Silence Is Golden One-Word Title The Dragon Wham Shot Names to Run Away from Really Fast Adaptation Dye-Job Fanservice Abhorrent Admirer Very Loosely Based on a True Story Redshirt Army Police are Useless Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie As You Know Gory Discretion Shot Call-Back The '70s BFG Sassy Black Woman Vampire Fiction Disguised in Drag Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Creator Cameo Eyepatch of Power Psycho for Hire Genre Savvy Determinator aka: The Determinator Dark Is Not Evil In Medias Res Bowdlerise Hate Sink Central Theme Storming the Castle Gender Flip Older Than They Look Overprotective Dad Offscreen Teleportation Film Series Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Camera Abuse Age Lift The '80s Silent Movie All Girls Want Bad Boys Re-Cut The Starscream Neck Lift Loophole Abuse Dark and Troubled Past Good Is Not Nice Big "NO!" Shut Up, Hannibal! Reasonable Authority Figure Those Two Bad Guys Vitriolic Best Buds Adaptational Heroism Suddenly SHOUTING! I Have Your Wife Pay Evil unto Evil Historical Hero Upgrade Redemption Equals Death "The Reason You Suck" Speech Foregone Conclusion Get Out! Destination Defenestration Motor Mouth Hell Is That Noise Shell-Shocked Veteran Reality Has No Subtitles Visual Pun Cloudcuckoolander Closed Circle Fatal Flaw Plot Hole Vacation Films Drives Like Crazy Super Strength Biopic Insistent Terminology Only Known by Their Nickname Those Two Guys Bar Brawl Brother–Sister Incest Instant Death Bullet Lampshade Hanging British Films Smoking Is Cool Parental Incest Sanity Slippage Punch-Clock Villain Pimped-Out Dress The Ace Amoral Attorney The Brute My Greatest Failure Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Anguished Declaration of Love Death by Sex Product Placement Eye Scream Death of a Child Sadistic Choice Book-Ends Double-Meaning Title Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Deus ex Machina "Well Done, Son!" Guy Cool Car Fourth Date Marriage Anti-Villain Guns Akimbo Manly Tears Naïve Newcomer Papa Wolf Department of Redundancy Department Serious Business Roaring Rampage of Revenge Chekhov's Skill Coming-of-Age Story Room Full of Crazy Evil Laugh Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Big Bad Card-Carrying Villain Wrong Genre Savvy Word of God Villain Protagonist Irony Serial Killer Apocalypse How The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Dirty Old Man Rule of Funny Alas, Poor Villain Back from the Dead The Atoner Cool Guns Soft Glass Green-Eyed Monster Early Installment Weirdness Homage Imagine Spot Not So Different Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Heterosexual Life-Partners As Long as It Sounds Foreign Man on Fire Funny Background Event Adaptational Villainy Breaking the Fourth Wall Easily Forgiven Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer It's Personal Camp Gay Monumental Damage Mistaken for Gay Dogged Nice Guy Heroes Want Redheads Ascended Extra The Reveal Dark Reprise He Who Fights Monsters True Companions The Stinger Dressing as the Enemy Chewing the Scenery Posthumous Character Left the Background Music On The Alleged Car Drowning My Sorrows How We Got Here Final Girl Rewatch Bonus The Voiceless Romantic False Lead Stepford Smiler Shown Their Work Grievous Bottley Harm Animal Motifs Time Skip Kill It with Fire Oh, Crap! Expy Animated Credits Opening Race Lift Mama Bear Tap on the Head Music Stories Love at First Sight Hair-Trigger Temper Setting Update Unreliable Narrator Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Yandere The Faceless Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Faking the Dead Thriller Evil Plan Crucified Hero Shot Insane Troll Logic Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Evil vs. Evil Documentary Rich Bitch Cat Scare Pragmatic Adaptation The Sociopath Affectionate Parody Improbable Aiming Skills Meaningful Echo Even Evil Has Loved Ones Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Retired Badass Stock Footage Groin Attack French Films Country Matters Arch-Enemy A.I. Is a Crapshoot Bullying a Dragon Mind Screw Sole Survivor Never My Fault Sequel Hook And the Adventure Continues Vomit Discretion Shot Real Life Disappeared Dad Double Entendre Does Not Like Shoes Zombie Stories Chekhov's Gunman Honor Before Reason Badass Grandpa Shoot the Shaggy Dog Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Arranged Marriage The Stoic Bilingual Bonus The Lancer Black Comedy Cain and Abel The '50s Totally Radical Artistic License – History Intrepid Reporter Five-Man Band Anachronic Order Our Vampires Are Different Fantasy Films Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Fanservice Extra Four-Temperament Ensemble The Chick Call-Forward Villain Ball Fantastic Racism Creepy Child Light Is Not Good Black Dude Dies First Mexican Standoff Horror Films Disproportionate Retribution The Remake Morality Pet Token Minority Only Sane Man Beauty Is Never Tarnished Cowboy Cop Idiot Ball Logo Joke Enemy Mine And Starring Kick the Dog Adaptation Name Change The Ditz Establishing Character Moment Babies Ever After Trailers Always Spoil Unspoken Plan Guarantee Anachronism Stew Canon Foreigner Darkest Hour Fun with Acronyms Your Head A-Splode Pet the Dog Superhero Annoying Younger Sibling Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies 20 Minutes into the Future Wretched Hive Kill 'em All Meet Cute Animal Title Index Woman Scorned Meaningful Name Aluminum Christmas Trees Off-into-the-Distance Ending Continuity Nod Ax-Crazy Punny Name Evil Counterpart Politically Incorrect Villain Bolivian Army Ending Diabolus ex Machina For the Evulz Heroic BSoD In Name Only Due to the Dead Nice Guy Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Becoming the Mask The Vamp Up to Eleven Heroic Sacrifice Extremely Short Timespan The Smurfette Principle Batman Gambit Defrosting Ice Queen Bound and Gagged What You Are in the Dark Developing Doomed Characters Big Applesauce Cluster F-Bomb Broken Aesop MacGuffin Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Victoria's Secret Compartment Put on a Bus Black Comedy Rape Berserk Button Interrupted Suicide Martial Arts Movie Star-Crossed Lovers Big Eater Fan Disservice Composite Character Malevolent Masked Men Pretty in Mink The Power of Love Calling the Old Man Out Bloody Hilarious Chase Scene Loads and Loads of Characters Dropped a Bridge on Him Extreme Doormat Abusive Parents Leitmotif Action Prologue Really Gets Around Undying Loyalty Insult Backfire The Un-Reveal Parental Neglect Cool Shades Dirty Coward German Films Earn Your Happy Ending Vomit Indiscretion Shot Fat Bastard Agony of the Feet Neck Snap Small Name, Big Ego Ass Shove Contrived Coincidence Those Wacky Nazis Bald of Evil Disney Villain Death Bad Boss Worthy Opponent The X of Y Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Adaptational Badass The Hero Dies Scenery Gorn Bunny-Ears Lawyer The Musical The '60s Beware the Nice Ones Jerk Jock Jerk with a Heart of Gold Overly Long Gag Author Appeal The Dreaded Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Moment Killer Not What It Looks Like Humiliation Conga Depraved Bisexual Aside Glance Frame-Up Reality Is Unrealistic The Load I Need a Freaking Drink Dissonant Serenity Belligerent Sexual Tension Deal with the Devil Public Domain Feature Films Getting Crap Past the Radar Casting Gag "Shaggy Dog" Story What the Hell, Hero? Dying Moment of Awesome Fatal Family Photo Well-Intentioned Extremist Impaled with Extreme Prejudice A Father to His Men Meaningful Background Event Parental Substitute Shower Scene The Cameo Playing Gertrude Wicked Cultured Dramatic Gun Cock Daylight Horror Antagonist Title All Men Are Perverts Drugs Are Bad Funny Foreigner Hollywood Darkness Expository Hairstyle Change Works Set in World War II Bond Villain Stupidity Missing Mom Sealed Evil in a Can Framing Device Brick Joke Mr. Exposition Arc Words Reality Ensues Training Montage All Just a Dream Sci-Fi Horror Spanner in the Works Evil Is Hammy Ambiguous Disorder Corrupt Corporate Executive Line-of-Sight Name Artistic License – Geography Blood Knight Darker and Edgier As Himself There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Film of the Book Would Hit a Girl From Bad to Worse Despair Event Horizon Deliberate Values Dissonance Sports Stories Break the Cutie Hooker with a Heart of Gold Demonic Possession Rape as Drama Bloodier and Gorier Unusually Uninteresting Sight Dramatic Irony Rasputinian Death Catch-Phrase Same Language Dub After the End Exact Words Slasher Smile Epic Movie Artistic License – Physics Face Death with Dignity Eldritch Abomination Only in It for the Money From Nobody to Nightmare Chiaroscuro Once More, with Clarity! I Did What I Had to Do Non-Indicative Name Foil Driven to Suicide Spiritual Successor Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Bond One-Liner Badass Boast Improbable Weapon User Improvised Weapon Paper-Thin Disguise Comically Missing the Point The Ghost Villain Song Not Even Bothering with the Accent Truth in Television Bland-Name Product Psychopathic Manchild I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Dirty Cop Big Damn Heroes Mighty Whitey Kick the Son of a Bitch Laughing Mad Cat Fight Fish out of Water Hoist by His Own Petard Ms. Fanservice Handicapped Badass Evil-Detecting Dog Fake Shemp Psychological Thriller Credits Gag Evil Brit Took a Level in Badass Curb-Stomp Battle Costume Porn Dutch Angle Mercy Kill Police Brutality Index of Film Westerns Death Seeker Have a Gay Old Time Jerkass Grey and Gray Morality Skewed Priorities Deliberately Monochrome Be Careful What You Wish For An Arm and a Leg Offscreen Moment of Awesome Amusing Injuries The Mole One Steve Limit '80s Hair La Résistance Outrun the Fireball Demoted to Extra An Axe to Grind Red Eyes, Take Warning Nice Hat Betty and Veronica Properly Paranoid Deadpan Snarker Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold My Beloved Smother Tranquil Fury Red Shirt Adults Are Useless Black and Gray Morality Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Curse Cut Short Flashback Daddy's Girl I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Adaptation Expansion Award-Bait Song O.O.C. Is Serious Business And I Must Scream Unusual Euphemism Break the Haughty Mythology Gag Big Brother Instinct Awesome, but Impractical She's Got Legs Crazy Jealous Guy Bait-and-Switch Combat Pragmatist Race Against the Clock Never Found the Body Action Girl Bring My Brown Pants I'm a Humanitarian Gratuitous English Character Development Wham Line Eureka Moment The Quiet One Only a Flesh Wound Car Fu Eiffel Tower Effect Deconstruction Kubrick Stare Toplessness from the Back An Aesop Butt-Monkey Taking the Bullet Big Bad Duumvirate Jump Scare Villain Opening Scene Too Dumb to Live Failed a Spot Check Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Narrator Red Herring Villainous Breakdown Made of Iron Historical Villain Upgrade Badass Normal Spell My Name with an "S" Take a Third Option Children Are Innocent Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Say My Name Dumb Blonde Informed Ability Hero of Another Story Sinister Minister Auto Erotica Femme Fatale Rule of Cool Bury Your Gays He Knows Too Much Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Faux Affably Evil Off with His Head! Film Noir Index Needs Wiki Magic Love Asshole Victim Riddle for the Ages Ship Tease The Stoner Hidden Depths Precision F-Strike Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Death by Adaptation Military and Warfare Films Attempted Rape Hypocritical Humor Sir Swears-a-Lot Dwindling Party Gainax Ending Damsel in Distress Last-Name Basis Death Glare Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Chekhov's Gun Show Within a Show Novelization Knife Nut Sacrificial Lion Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Stalker with a Crush Japanese Films Important Haircut Greater-Scope Villain Rule of Three What Happened to the Mouse? May–December Romance Our Zombies Are Different For Want of a Nail Pyrrhic Victory Body Horror Hollywood Law The Hero Badass in a Nice Suit Decoy Protagonist Male Gaze Take That! World of Ham Creative Closing Credits Defiant to the End Scary Black Man Artistic License – Law Fingore No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Soundtrack Dissonance Running Gag Pre-Mortem One-Liner Bad "Bad Acting" Video Credits All There in the Script Intergenerational Friendship Mr. Fanservice Kids Are Cruel Obfuscating Stupidity Unresolved Sexual Tension Blackmail Stylistic Suck Scare Chord Sexy Discretion Shot Mundane Made Awesome The Oner Red Right Hand Obviously Evil Fire-Forged Friends Science Fiction Films Accidental Misnaming Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Lighter and Softer Madness Mantra Mooks Bi the Way Maybe Ever After Corpsing Manipulative Bastard Broken Pedestal Twist Ending Hypocrite Almost Kiss Never Trust a Trailer Evil Cannot Comprehend Good No OSHA Compliance In the Back Ambiguous Ending The Dog Bites Back Evil Sounds Deep Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Genre Shift Manchild Mugging the Monster Freudian Excuse Romantic Comedy Eagleland Major Injury Underreaction Dramedy The Great Depression Slap-Slap-Kiss Adorkable Rousing Speech The Cavalry It Will Never Catch On More Dakka Anti-Hero Only One Name Ambiguously Gay As the Good Book Says... Cool Old Lady A Date with Rosie Palms Male Frontal Nudity Adapted Out Artistic License – Biology Throwing Your Sword Always Works Cold-Blooded Torture Shipper on Deck Your Cheating Heart Captain Obvious Scenery Porn Bavarian Fire Drill Authority Equals Asskicking Every Car Is a Pinto Ironic Echo Bittersweet Ending Broken Bird Slasher Movie Determinator Spiteful Spit Obstructive Bureaucrat Woman in White All There in the Manual Whole Plot Reference