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I Need a Freaking Drink Imagine Spot From Nobody to Nightmare Insult Backfire Made of Iron Storming the Castle Make It Look Like an Accident Historical-Domain Character Took a Level in Badass Mr. Fanservice Only a Flesh Wound Take a Third Option Irony War Is Hell The Dog Bites Back Our Zombies Are Different Drill Sergeant Nasty Jerkass Has a Point Foregone Conclusion Straight Gay The '50s Fanservice The '80s Well-Intentioned Extremist Anguished Declaration of Love Distracted by the Sexy Villainous Breakdown Hypocrite Novelization Loophole Abuse Unresolved Sexual Tension Badass Boast Grievous Bottley Harm Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Revenge Hate Sink Affably Evil Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Stealth Hi/Bye My God, What Have I Done? Even Evil Has Loved Ones Race Against the Clock Christmas Movies Index Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Epilogue Author Avatar Faux Affably Evil Alas, Poor Villain Woman in White After the End Gilligan Cut Eiffel Tower Effect Documentary Pimped-Out Dress Kill 'em All Victoria's Secret Compartment The Alleged Car Interrupted Suicide Double-Meaning Title Didn't Think This Through Foreshadowing Hero Antagonist Reality Is Unrealistic Cat Scare Bloodless Carnage Age Lift Freeze-Frame Bonus Cassandra Truth Cool Old Guy Match Cut Overly Long Gag An Aesop Award-Bait Song Disney Death One-Word Title Naked People Are Funny Fatal Flaw Cluster F-Bomb Training Montage Deadpan Snarker Animal Title Index Animated Credits Opening The Place Eldritch Abomination Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Mood Whiplash Good Is Not Nice Girl-on-Girl Is Hot British Films Idiot Ball Riddle for the Ages A.I. 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Did Not Get the Girl Truth in Television Driven to Suicide Leave the Camera Running Heroic BSoD Properly Paranoid Hero of Another Story Suddenly SHOUTING! 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