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Is a Crapshoot Film Series Camp Gay Big Eater Credits Gag Central Theme You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Batman Gambit Setting Update Red Oni, Blue Oni Wham Shot Everyone Has Standards Wicked Cultured The Film of the Book Four-Temperament Ensemble No OSHA Compliance Important Haircut Knife Nut Historical-Domain Character War Is Hell Lock and Load Montage Ambiguous Disorder Evil-Detecting Dog Token Minority Names to Run Away from Really Fast Captain Ersatz Determinator aka: The Determinator The Ace Blatant Lies Offscreen Teleportation Taking You with Me Reality Is Unrealistic Police Brutality Neck Snap I'm a Humanitarian Frame-Up Real Life Writes the Plot Call-Back Naïve Newcomer Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Closed Circle Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Adaptational Badass Sanity Slippage Face Death with Dignity Dwindling Party Humiliation Conga Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Brutal Honesty The '50s Brother–Sister Incest Alas, Poor Villain Black Best Friend Spared by the Adaptation Aside Glance Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Cat Scare Death by Adaptation Recycled IN SPACE! The Alcoholic Affably Evil No-Sell Last-Name Basis Pragmatic Adaptation Hope Spot Mercy Kill Heroic BSoD Insane Troll Logic French Films Chekhov's Skill Big Bad Duumvirate Jerkass Has a Point Darkest Hour Zombie Stories Slap-Slap-Kiss '80s Hair Action Genre Guile Hero For Want of a Nail Funny Background Event Red Right Hand Badass in a Nice Suit Broken Aesop Karmic Death Comically Missing the Point Butt-Monkey Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Artistic License – Law Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Gainax Ending Animated Credits Opening You Have Failed Me The Hero BFG Dogged Nice Guy Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Famous Last Words For the Evulz Kick the Son of a Bitch Shut Up, Hannibal! Bloodier and Gorier Bi the Way folderlabel Asshole Victim Gilligan Cut Male Gaze Cool Car Whole Plot Reference May–December Romance Straight Gay Bad Boss Peek-a-Boo Corpse Exactly What It Says on the Tin Heroes Want Redheads Deal with the Devil Hypocrite Evil Sounds Deep Show Within a Show Curb-Stomp Battle The Brute Yandere Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The Vamp Ripped from the Headlines Epic Movie Psychopathic Manchild Skewed Priorities "Well Done, Son!" Guy Public Domain Feature Films Undying Loyalty Biopic Precision F-Strike Cool Guns Vomit Discretion Shot Take That! Mugging the Monster Five-Man Band Toplessness from the Back The Mole Enemy Mine Wounded Gazelle Gambit The Place Pretty in Mink Star-Crossed Lovers No Name Given As the Good Book Says... Outrun the Fireball Vacation Films I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Author Appeal Genre Shift Loads and Loads of Characters Suspiciously Similar Substitute Depraved Bisexual Faux Affably Evil Fourth Date Marriage Loophole Abuse Bond One-Liner Tranquil Fury Blood from the Mouth Pimped-Out Dress Pet the Dog Blackmail Get Out! In the Back Moment Killer Does Not Like Shoes Visual Pun No Antagonist Posthumous Character It's All About Me Scary Black Man Green-Eyed Monster What the Hell, Hero? 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Conspicuous CG Morality Pet Your Head A-Splode Cowboy Cop Never My Fault Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Dual Wielding More Dakka Up to Eleven "The Reason You Suck" Speech Unusually Uninteresting Sight Body Horror Retirony Villain Protagonist The Ditz Rasputinian Death Worthy Opponent Shirtless Scene Not So Stoic Abusive Parents Eye Scream Badass Boast Face–Heel Turn Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Fanservice Extra Lighter and Softer Badass Bookworm The Lancer Celebrity Paradox Ambiguously Gay Re-Cut Facial Horror Even Evil Has Standards "Shaggy Dog" Story Drives Like Crazy Parental Abandonment Captain Obvious No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Dumb Blonde As Long as It Sounds Foreign Greater-Scope Villain Becoming the Mask Animal Motifs Sadistic Choice She Cleans Up Nicely Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Annoying Younger Sibling Be Careful What You Wish For Unspoken Plan Guarantee Psycho for Hire Award-Bait Song NO INDOOR VOICE Hell Is That Noise Big-Bad Ensemble Extreme Doormat Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Parental Substitute All Girls Want Bad Boys Adaptational Attractiveness Retired Badass Made of Explodium Alliterative Name Framing Device Adaptation Name Change It Will Never Catch On Tap on the Head Self-Deprecation Left the Background Music On Demoted to Extra Married to the Job Black Comedy Drowning My Sorrows Gorn The Faceless Arch-Enemy An Axe to Grind Decoy Protagonist Bloodless Carnage Man on Fire Death by Sex Would Hit a Girl Bunny-Ears Lawyer Wrong Genre Savvy Broken Pedestal Aluminum Christmas Trees Daddy's Girl Only One Name Madness Mantra Call-Forward Fantastic Racism Fatal Family Photo Light Is Not Good Brainless Beauty Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Put on a Bus The End... Or Is It? One-Word Title The Power of Love Irony Very Loosely Based on a True Story Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Villain Opening Scene In Medias Res Genre Throwback Your Cheating Heart Silent Movie Beard of Evil Cloudcuckoolander Big Fancy House Double Entendre Betty and Veronica Fat Bastard Eiffel Tower Effect Sole Survivor Fanservice Vampire Fiction Spell My Name with an "S" Boom, Headshot! Fate Worse than Death Apocalypse How Dirty Coward Shower Scene Historical Villain Upgrade The Un-Reveal Bald of Evil The Chessmaster Laser-Guided Karma Never Trust a Trailer Darker and Edgier Broken Bird Action Survivor Offscreen Moment of Awesome The '90s Blood Knight Sports Stories Psychological Thriller Woman Scorned Humans Are Bastards Ominous Latin Chanting What Happened to the Mouse? Nice Hat Let's Get Dangerous! Exact Words Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Attempted Rape Match Cut Bolivian Army Ending Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Australian Movies Anti-Villain I Did What I Had to Do Horror Films And I Must Scream Retcon British Films After the End Character Development Karma Houdini Epic Fail Instant Death Bullet Destination Defenestration Cool Old Lady Continuity Nod Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Superhero Animal Title Index Gory Discretion Shot Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Eureka Moment Vomit Indiscretion Shot Gratuitous English Expository Hairstyle Change Arc Words Immune to Bullets Crazy-Prepared Babies Ever After Corpsing MacGuffin The Cameo Cool Shades Horror Comedy Those Wacky Nazis Mr. Fanservice My God, What Have I Done? Bottomless Magazines Faking the Dead Spanner in the Works Stuff Blowing Up A God Am I The Lost Lenore Eagleland Only in It for the Money Hero of Another Story Evil Brit Chewing the Scenery Same Language Dub Card-Carrying Villain Casting Gag Idiot Ball Anachronic Order Developing Doomed Characters Funny Foreigner Fish out of Water Death by Irony Bound and Gagged Evil Is Hammy Fantasy Films Hypocritical Humor The Chick Black Comedy Rape Disguised in Drag Kill 'em All Obfuscating Stupidity Market-Based Title Authority Equals Asskicking Meet Cute Overly Long Gag The Ghost Fake Shemp Break the Cutie Dutch Angle Sci-Fi Horror Evil Laugh Manipulative Bastard Deliberately Monochrome Bait-and-Switch Pay Evil unto Evil Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Dirty Old Man Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Author Avatar Friend to All Children This Is Gonna Suck Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Totally Radical Kubrick Stare Truth in Television Dropped a Bridge on Him Shell-Shocked Veteran Sequel Hook Even Evil Has Loved Ones Our Vampires Are Different Cat Fight Badass Normal Off with His Head! Adaptation Dye-Job Belligerent Sexual Tension All Men Are Perverts Slasher Movie Science Fiction Films Death of a Child Dramatic Irony Black Dude Dies First Bond Villain Stupidity Adaptational Heroism True Companions Almost Kiss Imagine Spot Those Two Bad Guys Stalker with a Crush Title Drop Fiery Redhead Mundane Made Awesome "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Roaring Rampage of Revenge Dies Wide Open Bring My Brown Pants Ax-Crazy Kick the Dog