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Yandere Anachronism Stew Almost Kiss You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Cain and Abel Evil Is Hammy Broken Pedestal Unresolved Sexual Tension Vomit Discretion Shot Unspoken Plan Guarantee Madness Mantra Combat Pragmatist Rule of Cool Politically Incorrect Villain Totally Radical Adults Are Useless The Smurfette Principle Domestic Abuse Auto Erotica Wretched Hive Hypocritical Humor Adaptation Name Change Fate Worse than Death Overly Long Gag Immune to Bullets Corrupt Corporate Executive The Dreaded Together in Death Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Did Not Get the Girl Sequel Hook Slasher Movie Product Placement Laughing Mad The '50s Earn Your Happy Ending Worthy Opponent Deadpan Snarker What the Hell, Hero? 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In the Back Took a Level in Badass In Medias Res Gainax Ending Suspiciously Similar Substitute Stock Footage Peek-a-Boo Corpse I Have Your Wife Those Two Guys Character Development Deliberately Monochrome Made of Iron Missing Mom Say My Name Daddy's Girl Superhero Awesome, but Impractical Fat Bastard Logo Joke Blatant Lies No Antagonist Artistic License – Physics Let's Get Dangerous! Those Wacky Nazis Too Dumb to Live Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Reality Has No Subtitles Disney Death Chase Scene Deus ex Machina "The Reason You Suck" Speech Flipping the Bird Take a Third Option Unwitting Instigator of Doom Funny Foreigner Instant Death Bullet Damsel in Distress Ascended Extra Off with His Head! Psycho for Hire Calling the Old Man Out Morality Pet Gold Digger As You Know Genre Shift Composite Character Car Fu Hooker with a Heart of Gold