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