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