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Dies Wide Open World of Ham Accidental Misnaming Fake Shemp Same Language Dub Call-Back Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Re-Cut Vitriolic Best Buds The Big Guy Even Evil Has Standards Death Seeker Chewing the Scenery Product Placement Becoming the Mask Parental Incest Not So Different Brick Joke Artistic License – Law Roaring Rampage of Revenge Bi the Way Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies The Place Suspiciously Specific Denial All There in the Manual Reasonable Authority Figure Evil vs. Evil Good Is Not Nice Animal Title Index Hypocritical Humor Laser-Guided Karma Historical In-Joke The Alcoholic Peek-a-Boo Corpse Male Gaze Kids Are Cruel Took a Level in Badass Oh, Crap! Neck Snap Badass Boast And Starring Naïve Newcomer Truth in Television May–December Romance I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Never Trust a Trailer Fantastic Racism Bloody Hilarious Car Fu Christmas Movies Index Suspiciously Similar Substitute My Beloved Smother Major Injury Underreaction Badass in a Nice Suit Rule of Symbolism Bloodless Carnage Animal Motifs The '70s Dirty Coward Manic Pixie Dream Girl Narrator Non-Indicative Name Plot Hole Works Set in World War II Psychopathic Manchild Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Worthy Opponent Flipping the Bird Take That! Death by Irony Amusing Injuries Extremely Short Timespan Intrepid Reporter Canadian Movies Accidental Murder Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Evil Laugh Bait-and-Switch Grievous Bottley Harm Pragmatic Villainy Trailers Always Spoil Age Lift Jerkass Has a Point Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Morality Pet Dwindling Party Artistic License – Biology The Musical The Casanova Sinister Minister Madness Mantra Aside Glance The Mole Mugging the Monster Cassandra Truth Genre Savvy Unusual Euphemism Naked People Are Funny The Load Credits Gag Redshirt Army Costume Porn Flashback Friend to All Children Retired Badass Unresolved Sexual Tension Romantic Comedy You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Large Ham An Aesop Pet the Dog Italian Films Those Two Guys Drives Like Crazy Evil Sounds Deep The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Male Frontal Nudity Knife Nut Hollywood Law Department of Redundancy Department Did Not Get the Girl Black Best Friend Blood from the Mouth Sassy Black Woman Dramatic Irony Air-Vent Passageway Have a Gay Old Time Let's Get Dangerous! Dumb Blonde Random Events Plot Chase Scene Adaptational Villainy Recycled IN SPACE! 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Cool Guns Wham Shot Frame-Up All There in the Script Yandere Take a Third Option Depraved Bisexual Bad Boss How We Got Here Drowning My Sorrows Berserk Button Reality Ensues Evil Counterpart Action Prologue Would Hit a Girl Boom, Headshot! Crapsack World He Knows Too Much Cat Fight Crazy Jealous Guy Deus ex Machina Creative Closing Credits Superhero Faux Affably Evil Off with His Head! The Ghost Destination Defenestration Almost Kiss N-Word Privileges Fainting Badass Grandpa Men Are the Expendable Gender Pretty Little Headshots Rule of Funny Stepford Smiler Sports Stories Kick the Dog Captain Ersatz The Starscream Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Alas, Poor Villain Leave the Camera Running Due to the Dead Our Vampires Are Different The Ditz Ragtag Bunch of Misfits You Have Failed Me True Companions Make It Look Like an Accident Cat Scare Heroic Sacrifice Rousing Speech Left the Background Music On Tagline The Power of Love Protagonist Title Retirony Rasputinian Death Freeze-Frame Bonus Asshole Victim Loads and Loads of Characters Fun with Acronyms "The Reason You Suck" Speech No Antagonist Drugs Are Bad Comically Missing the Point Author Avatar Horror Films It's Personal Fantasy Films Scary Black Man Meaningful Echo Disney Villain Death Romantic False Lead The Stoic Ironic Echo Black and Gray Morality Fish out of Water Domestic Abuse The Vamp Big Bad The Cameo No Ending Revenge Mooks Cruel and Unusual Death You Killed My Father Failed a Spot Check Adult Fear One Steve Limit I Have Your Wife Disney Death Meet Cute The Remake Obfuscating Stupidity Wicked Cultured Implacable Man Kill It with Fire Irony Man on Fire Slasher Movie Punny Name Beauty Is Never Tarnished Pre-Mortem One-Liner Public Domain Feature Films Getting Crap Past the Radar The Dragon I'm a Humanitarian A God Am I Eye Scream The Chick Death by Adaptation Hair-Trigger Temper Arch-Enemy Butt-Monkey Word of God Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Logo Joke Gorn Foreshadowing Wrong Genre Savvy Names to Run Away from Really Fast Early Installment Weirdness Diabolus ex Machina Blood Knight Pragmatic Adaptation Be Careful What You Wish For Belligerent Sexual Tension Dissonant Serenity Funny Foreigner Fatal Family Photo Face Death with Dignity In Name Only In the Back Shower Scene Beta Couple Woman Scorned Toplessness from the Back Rule of Three Tranquil Fury The Reveal It's All About Me Funny Background Event Death by Sex German Films Villain Opening Scene Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Bowdlerise Bolivian Army Ending Action Genre Really Gets Around The Atoner Stylistic Suck Better to Die than Be Killed Plucky Comic Relief Bilingual Bonus Nothing Is Scarier Cain and Abel My God, What Have I Done? Anti-Villain Arranged Marriage Jerk Jock Grey and Gray Morality What Happened to the Mouse? 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Parental Neglect Sci-Fi Horror Card-Carrying Villain Noodle Incident Artistic License – Physics Those Wacky Nazis Black Comedy Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Green-Eyed Monster Motor Mouth Lock and Load Montage Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Hero Dies Mr. Exposition Lighter and Softer Rich Bitch Hero of Another Story B-Movie Retcon One-Word Title Villain with Good Publicity Bond Villain Stupidity Film Noir Index Immune to Bullets Hero Antagonist Screw the Money, I Have Rules! All Just a Dream Artistic License – Geography The Cavalry Amoral Attorney Mythology Gag Offscreen Moment of Awesome Overly Long Gag Tap on the Head Bland-Name Product Ascended Extra Dull Surprise An Axe to Grind Ass Shove Action Girl Expository Hairstyle Change Beard of Evil Aluminum Christmas Trees Dramatic Gun Cock Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The '60s Creator Cameo Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Taking the Bullet Awesome, but Impractical The Hero Off-into-the-Distance Ending Spiteful Spit Villain Ball The Lancer Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Tempting Fate Closed Circle Our Zombies Are Different Never My Fault Blackmail The Ace She Cleans Up Nicely Idiot Ball Bottomless Magazines Put on a Bus Eiffel Tower Effect Rape as Drama Calling the Old Man Out Fire-Forged Friends Lampshade Hanging Adaptation Distillation Fan Disservice He Who Fights Monsters Manly Tears Double-Meaning Title Up to Eleven Improbable Weapon User NO INDOOR VOICE Artistic License – Military Deadpan Snarker "Well Done, Son!" Guy Chekhov's Gun Visual Pun Betty and Veronica Nice Hat Affectionate Parody And the Adventure Continues Drill Sergeant Nasty Training Montage Shoot the Shaggy Dog As Himself Wretched Hive Damsel in Distress Mistaken for Gay The Faceless Apocalypse How Hell Is That Noise Intergenerational Friendship What You Are in the Dark Real Life Writes the Plot Affably Evil Femme Fatale Wounded Gazelle Gambit 20 Minutes into the Future Canon Foreigner "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Bar Brawl Japanese Films Pretty in Mink Bunny-Ears Lawyer Creepy Child Shirtless Scene As the Good Book Says... 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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Final Girl The Oner Downer Ending Cool Old Guy The Dreaded Daddy's Girl Ripped from the Headlines Gold Digger Your Cheating Heart Brother–Sister Incest Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Mexican Standoff And I Must Scream Facial Horror Spell My Name with an "S" Adorkable Decoy Protagonist Camera Abuse The Voiceless Bury Your Gays Laughing Mad Armor-Piercing Question Index of Film Westerns Kill 'em All Police are Useless Gender Flip Homage The '80s Big Bad Duumvirate Crazy-Prepared Stalker with a Crush Smoking Is Cool Fate Worse than Death Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Back from the Dead Race Against the Clock Self-Deprecation No OSHA Compliance Every Car Is a Pinto "Awesome McCool" Name Thriller Villainous Breakdown Not Even Bothering with the Accent Shipper on Deck Took a Level in Jerkass Important Haircut Leitmotif Big Brother Instinct Animated Credits Opening Honor Before Reason Mad Scientist Very Loosely Based on a True Story Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Unusually Uninteresting Sight O.O.C. Is Serious Business Not So Stoic Mystery and Detective Films Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Foil Police Brutality Shout-Out Dark Reprise Imagine Spot Hidden Depths Biopic Dual Wielding Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Fatal Flaw Meaningful Background Event Big Eater Ungrateful Bastard You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! A Father to His Men Alpha Bitch Offscreen Teleportation Nice Guy Driven to Suicide Overprotective Dad Reality Is Unrealistic folderlabel Defiant to the End Demoted to Extra Casting Gag Say My Name Ghost Fiction Sealed Evil in a Can Market-Based Title The Stoner Ambiguous Disorder Anguished Declaration of Love Gilligan Cut Dying Moment of Awesome British Films Historical-Domain Character Evil-Detecting Dog Adaptation Name Change Stealth Hi/Bye Curb-Stomp Battle Woman in White Improvised Weapon Sanity Slippage The Dog Bites Back Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Your Head A-Splode Never Found the Body Attempted Rape timeperiod Outrun the Fireball Neck Lift Pimped-Out Dress Double Entendre Needs Wiki Magic Love Adults Are Useless Faking the Dead Translation Convention Badass Normal Babies Ever After Together in Death Anachronic Order Smug Snake Foregone Conclusion Artistic License – History Action Survivor Throwing Your Sword Always Works Gory Discretion Shot Insistent Terminology Fourth Date Marriage Antagonist Title Despair Event Horizon Interrupted Suicide Artistic License – Gun Safety Not So Above It All Video Credits Adaptation Dye-Job Novelization Australian Movies Shell-Shocked Veteran Slap-Slap-Kiss A Date with Rosie Palms Contrived Coincidence Fanservice Extra Camp Gay Psycho for Hire Film Series Punctuated! 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Epic Movie Ominous Latin Chanting Book-Ends Cluster F-Bomb Sequel Escalation Those Two Bad Guys Mr. Fanservice Ambiguously Gay After the End Super Strength As Long as It Sounds Foreign Break the Cutie Star-Crossed Lovers More Dakka Heel–Face Turn Eyepatch of Power Instant Death Bullet Enemy Mine Papa Wolf Precision F-Strike Historical Hero Upgrade Dirty Cop Scare Chord Auto Erotica Cool Old Lady Light Is Not Good Stealth Pun Stock Footage As You Know Unwitting Instigator of Doom Silent Movie Hope Spot The Bad Guy Wins Improbable Aiming Skills Mercy Kill Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Didn't Think This Through Bloodier and Gorier Playing Gertrude Too Dumb to Live Time Skip Conspicuous CG Film Noir No-Sell Deliberate Values Dissonance Refuge in Audacity Storming the Castle Big Applesauce Pyrrhic Victory Properly Paranoid Killed Mid-Sentence Dark and Troubled Past Red Right Hand Only Sane Man Heterosexual Life-Partners Malevolent Masked Men Deconstruction Annoying Younger Sibling Military and Warfare Films Happily Married I Need a Freaking Drink Award-Bait Song Arc Words Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Daylight Horror A.I. Is a Crapshoot Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Here We Go Again! Horror Comedy Defrosting Ice Queen Monumental Damage Mama Bear Pay Evil unto Evil Not Quite Dead Half the Man He Used to Be War Is Hell Made of Iron Alliterative Name Bond One-Liner Badass Longcoat