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Shirtless Scene Villain Ball Spiteful Spit Only Known by Their Nickname Artistic License – Geography Oh, Crap! Karmic Death Woman in White Bi the Way Bond One-Liner Depraved Bisexual Unusual Euphemism Your Head A-Splode Big "NO!" Big Brother Instinct Bait-and-Switch How We Got Here Knight Templar Psychopathic Manchild Getting Crap Past the Radar War Is Hell Dramedy Batman Gambit Evil Brit The Alcoholic Not Even Bothering with the Accent Jerk Jock Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Freudian Excuse Not Quite Dead Camp Gay Slasher Movie Establishing Character Moment Author Avatar Heterosexual Life-Partners Based on a True Story Early Installment Weirdness Animated Credits Opening Improbable Aiming Skills Our Zombies Are Different Dies Wide Open Curb-Stomp Battle Evil Is Hammy Hypocrite Sacrificial Lion One Steve Limit Loophole Abuse Drives Like Crazy Historical-Domain Character Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Ambiguous Ending You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The Vamp Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Demonic Possession Serious Business Last-Name Basis Improvised Weapon Action Girl Tagline The Dreaded Victoria's Secret Compartment Red Right Hand Wicked Cultured Flipping the Bird Homage Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Noodle Incident Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! The '50s Better to Die than Be Killed timeperiod Fun with Acronyms Together in Death Famous Last Words Catapult Nightmare Villainous Breakdown O.O.C. Is Serious Business Monumental Damage Neck Lift My God, What Have I Done? Straight Gay Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Catch-Phrase Brutal Honesty BFG Gainax Ending La Résistance Anachronic Order Slashed Throat Adaptational Attractiveness Market-Based Title Scenery Porn Reality Has No Subtitles Motor Mouth Undying Loyalty Shut Up, Hannibal! Suddenly SHOUTING! It Can Think Eiffel Tower Effect Hidden Depths Evil Sounds Deep Italian Films Action Genre Rule of Three Grievous Bottley Harm Once More, with Clarity! A Date with Rosie Palms Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Continuity Nod Sole Survivor Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Totally Radical Mexican Standoff Crazy Jealous Guy Hero Antagonist In Medias Res Big Bad Duumvirate The '70s Fire-Forged Friends Beauty Is Never Tarnished She's Got Legs Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Race Against the Clock Get Out! 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Unwitting Instigator of Doom Our Vampires Are Different Blood Knight Suspiciously Similar Substitute Off-into-the-Distance Ending Author Appeal Expy Action Survivor B-Movie Jerk with a Heart of Gold Rated M for Manly British Films Psychological Thriller Green-Eyed Monster Adaptation Distillation The Sociopath Idiot Ball Truth in Television Pragmatic Adaptation Mundane Made Awesome No Name Given Playing Gertrude Celebrity Paradox The Voiceless Re-Cut Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Five-Man Band Antagonist Title Exactly What It Says on the Tin Made of Iron Music Stories Logo Joke Deal with the Devil Mr. Exposition Badass in a Nice Suit What Happened to the Mouse? Dogged Nice Guy Death of a Child My Beloved Smother All There in the Script Laser-Guided Karma Naïve Newcomer Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Pet the Dog Aluminum Christmas Trees I Did What I Had to Do Auto Erotica Big-Bad Ensemble Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Roaring Rampage of Revenge Nice Guy Vomit Indiscretion Shot Alas, Poor Villain Tap on the Head As Himself Combat Pragmatist Never Trust a Trailer Affably Evil You Killed My Father The Lancer Only Sane Man Punch-Clock Villain Suspiciously Specific Denial Drowning My Sorrows Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Pimped-Out Dress Dull Surprise The Hero Evil Counterpart Stock Footage Manchild Imagine Spot Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Dual Wielding Police Brutality Off with His Head! "Awesome McCool" Name The Mafia Casting Gag Does Not Like Shoes Shout-Out As the Good Book Says... Sanity Slippage Broken Bird Ms. Fanservice Black Dude Dies First Belligerent Sexual Tension Only in It for the Money May–December Romance The Place Action Prologue The X of Y A.I. Is a Crapshoot Cool Car Chase Scene Drill Sergeant Nasty Almost Kiss Abhorrent Admirer Evil Is Petty Parental Incest Ambiguously Gay Science Fiction Films Reality Ensues Artistic License – Physics This Is Gonna Suck Parental Substitute Air-Vent Passageway Children Are Innocent Be Careful What You Wish For Malevolent Masked Men Adaptational Heroism Insane Troll Logic Red Herring Creepy Child Disney Death Determinator No OSHA Compliance The Bully Broken Aesop Would Hurt a Child Wretched Hive Parental Abandonment Alpha Bitch You Have Failed Me Good Is Not Nice A Minor Kidroduction Agony of the Feet Real Life Writes the Plot Peek-a-Boo Corpse From Nobody to Nightmare Smoking Is Cool Throwing Your Sword Always Works Take That! 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Soft Glass Heroes Want Redheads The Un-Reveal Defrosting Ice Queen Sexy Discretion Shot Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Precision F-Strike Worthy Opponent Vacation Films Wham Shot The Stoner Character Development Kubrick Stare Mad Scientist Black Comedy Dramatic Irony The Ghost Conspicuous CG Anguished Declaration of Love Romantic False Lead The Stoic Line-of-Sight Name Stuff Blowing Up All for Nothing Villain with Good Publicity Break the Haughty Deus ex Machina Downer Ending Rule of Symbolism Yandere No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Hero Dies Ghost Fiction No Antagonist Boom, Headshot! Red Shirt Shipper on Deck Covers Always Lie Chekhov's Skill No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Kill 'em All Bullying a Dragon Papa Wolf Paper-Thin Disguise Not Using the "Z" Word Daylight Horror Historical Hero Upgrade Vitriolic Best Buds Black and Gray Morality Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Closed Circle It's Personal Horror Films Villain Protagonist Arc Words Lock and Load Montage Break the Cutie My Greatest Failure Real Life Spared by the Adaptation Token Minority Male Frontal Nudity Danny Peary Cult Movies List Japanese Films Too Dumb to Live True Companions Sports Stories Easily Forgiven Disguised in Drag Adaptation Name Change Reckless Gun Usage Accidental Misnaming Fantasy Films Broken Pedestal Revenge Mighty Whitey Armor-Piercing Question Intrepid Reporter It's All About Me Failed a Spot Check Amusing Injuries Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Biopic Costume Porn More Dakka Taking the Bullet Product Placement Bury Your Gays Ominous Latin Chanting Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Gender Flip In Name Only Vomit Discretion Shot Happily Married Wounded Gazelle Gambit Brainless Beauty Works Set in World War II Framing Device Same Language Dub Driven to Suicide Cassandra Truth NO INDOOR VOICE Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Canadian Movies Poor Communication Kills Fantastic Racism One-Man Army Red Eyes, Take Warning Fatal Flaw Properly Paranoid Chewing the Scenery Book-Ends Crazy-Prepared Foil Match Cut Eagleland Bloodier and Gorier Tranquil Fury No Celebrities Were Harmed Meaningful Name Only One Name Face–Heel Turn Animal Title Index The Reveal Film Noir All Men Are Perverts Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Annoying Younger Sibling The Great Depression Blood from the Mouth Hero of Another Story Pyrrhic Victory Knife Nut Love at First Sight Bloody Hilarious Word of God Dying Moment of Awesome Chiaroscuro Dutch Angle You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Adaptation Dye-Job Thriller Epic Fail Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Rule of Cool Manipulative Bastard Big Damn Heroes Awesome, but Impractical Sir Swears-a-Lot Ironic Echo Captain Obvious Cool Guns Breaking the Fourth Wall Zombie Stories Hollywood Darkness Retirony Gold Digger Domestic Abuse Skewed Priorities Blackmail Beard of Evil Crapsack World Fourth Date Marriage Never Found the Body As You Know The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Setting Update Naked People Are Funny From Bad to Worse Race Lift Guns Akimbo Male Gaze Corrupt Corporate Executive Protagonist Title Cowboy Cop Determinator aka: The Determinator Double Entendre Stealth Pun I'm a Humanitarian Unreliable Narrator Make It Look Like an Accident Shown Their Work Slap-Slap-Kiss Stealth Hi/Bye Cloudcuckoolander Adaptation Expansion Captain Ersatz The Starscream Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Faux Affably Evil Funny Foreigner Death by Sex Evil-Detecting Dog Retcon Killed Mid-Sentence Bloodless Carnage Star-Crossed Lovers Horror Comedy Dark Is Not Evil What You Are in the Dark Spiritual Successor Dirty Coward An Arm and a Leg Nice Hat Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Red Oni, Blue Oni "Well Done, Son!" Guy Spanner in the Works Improbable Weapon User She Cleans Up Nicely The Film of the Book Historical Villain Upgrade "The Reason You Suck" Speech I Want My Beloved to Be Happy 20 Minutes into the Future Video Credits Developing Doomed Characters Hooker with a Heart of Gold Affectionate Parody Beware the Nice Ones The Alleged Car Destination Defenestration Humans Are Bastards Disappeared Dad Laughing Mad The Dog Bites Back The Cavalry Shoot the Shaggy Dog Eyepatch of Power Guile Hero Leaning on the Fourth Wall Humiliation Conga Black Best Friend Mythology Gag The Chessmaster Gone Horribly Right Abusive Parents The Atoner Death by Adaptation Eureka Moment Light Is Not Good Redemption Equals Death And the Adventure Continues Country Matters I Need a Freaking Drink Advertised Extra Arranged Marriage Dirty Cop Tempting Fate Final Girl Does This Remind You of Anything? And Starring The '60s Apocalypse How Show Within a Show Punny Name Dropped a Bridge on Him Loads and Loads of Characters Femme Fatale Manly Tears Fingore Heel–Face Turn Bound and Gagged Hong Kong Films Sinister Minister Bilingual Bonus Deliberately Monochrome "Where Are They Now?" 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