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