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