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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Would Hit a Girl
Room Full of Crazy
Together in Death
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Bland-Name Product
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
A Minor Kidroduction
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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She's Got Legs
Sexy Discretion Shot
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Humans Are Bastards
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One Steve Limit
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You Have Failed Me
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The Hero Dies
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Naked People Are Funny
A.I. Is a Crapshoot
A God Am I
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Obviously Evil
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Get Out!
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Fake Shemp
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As the Good Book Says...
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Award-Bait Song
Market-Based Title
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Pretty in Mink
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Comically Missing the Point
Word of God
Kick the Dog
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B-Movie
Big Brother Instinct
Soft Glass
Chewing the Scenery
Adaptation Expansion
Deconstruction
The Smurfette Principle
Scare Chord
Reality Ensues
Femme Fatale
Everyone Has Standards
Mad Scientist
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An Axe to Grind
Getting Crap Past the Radar
Red Herring
Disguised in Drag
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Zombie Stories
Not Using the "Z" Word
Serial Killer
Disney Villain Death
Artistic License Physics
Make It Look Like an Accident
Gender Flip
Shut Up, Hannibal!
Left the Background Music On
Fanservice Extra
Author Appeal
Love Triangle
Famous Last Words
Heroic Sacrifice
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Hope Spot
Green-Eyed Monster
Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Blackmail
Covers Always Lie
Dies Wide Open
Unreliable Narrator
Slap-Slap-Kiss
Immune to Bullets
The '70s
Gainax Ending
Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Spiteful Spit
It's All About Me
Put on a Bus
Distracted by the Sexy
Your Head A-Splode
Male Gaze
Eiffel Tower Effect
Italian Films
Hypocritical Humor
Match Cut
Light Is Not Good
Silent Movie
Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Made of Iron
Failed a Spot Check