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