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