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