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