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Wicked Cultured Bound and Gagged Instant Death Bullet Sexy Discretion Shot Attempted Rape Alliterative Name Grievous Bottley Harm Card-Carrying Villain Drowning My Sorrows All Just a Dream Body Horror Contrived Coincidence Be Careful What You Wish For Dissonant Serenity Age Lift Broken Aesop Dual Wielding The '60s Bi the Way Badass Grandpa Vampire Fiction The Quiet One Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Faking the Dead As You Know Fun with Acronyms Driven to Suicide Heroes Want Redheads Blatant Lies Those Wacky Nazis Fate Worse than Death Foil Lock and Load Montage French Films Papa Wolf Laser-Guided Karma All There in the Manual Shower Scene Actually Pretty Funny The Place Rousing Speech I Did What I Had to Do Red Oni, Blue Oni Spanner in the Works Boom, Headshot! Hypocritical Humor Black Best Friend Abusive Parents Developing Doomed Characters Historical Hero Upgrade Gorn Honor Before Reason Beard of Evil The Un-Reveal Dirty Old Man Bury Your Gays Adaptational Villainy Film Noir Defiant to the End Anyone Can Die Daddy's Girl World of Ham Irony Pragmatic Adaptation Real Life Writes the Plot B-Movie Amusing Injuries Stealth Pun Visual Pun Leave the Camera Running Villain with Good Publicity Slasher Movie Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Woman Scorned Blood Knight Final Girl Never My Fault Historical In-Joke The Oner Fainting Sole Survivor Offscreen Teleportation Naïve Newcomer Blackmail Those Two Bad Guys Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Coming-of-Age Story Actor Allusion Becoming the Mask Death Glare Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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For! Emphasis! Rule of Symbolism Bavarian Fire Drill Depraved Bisexual As Himself Not Even Bothering with the Accent Author Avatar Big Eater Australian Movies From Nobody to Nightmare Moment Killer Domestic Abuse Biopic Rule of Three The X of Y Say My Name Dramedy Evil-Detecting Dog The Smart Guy Reckless Gun Usage Manly Tears Loophole Abuse As Long as It Sounds Foreign Love Triangle Worthy Opponent Four-Temperament Ensemble Put on a Bus Animal Title Index Punny Name From Bad to Worse Determinator aka: The Determinator Sealed Evil in a Can Gender Flip Brainless Beauty Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Up to Eleven What the Hell, Hero? Action Genre Mundane Made Awesome Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy You Have Failed Me Ambiguously Gay The Chick Dull Surprise Mad Scientist Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Meet Cute Same Language Dub Jerk Jock There Is No Kill Like Overkill Take a Third Option BFG Car Fu Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Not What It Looks Like Bait-and-Switch The Stoic Corpsing Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass My Beloved Smother Retirony Badass Boast Every Car Is a Pinto Break the Haughty Corrupt Corporate Executive Ominous Latin Chanting Continuity Nod Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Wham Shot Historical Villain Upgrade Word of God Show Within a Show Random Events Plot Soundtrack Dissonance Small Name, Big Ego Awesome, but Impractical Femme Fatale Arranged Marriage It Will Never Catch On Tagline Bad "Bad Acting" Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Horror Comedy Dying Moment of Awesome Dark and Troubled Past Guns Akimbo Creepy Child Italian Films Pet the Dog Let's Get Dangerous! Facial Horror Beware the Nice Ones You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Empathic Environment The '90s Imagine Spot Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Self-Deprecation Parental Substitute The Big Guy Sacrificial Lion Central Theme Japanese Films Eyepatch of Power Epic Fail Heroic Sacrifice Expy Evil vs. Evil Parental Abandonment Fantastic Racism Aluminum Christmas Trees Demoted to Extra Would Hurt a Child Cat Scare N-Word Privileges Closed Circle Dark Action Girl Sci-Fi Horror Did Not Get the Girl Male Frontal Nudity And the Adventure Continues Artistic License – Geography Scenery Gorn Evil Laugh Exact Words Adults Are Useless Meaningful Echo Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Lampshade Hanging Cool Old Lady Adaptation Distillation Shell-Shocked Veteran Call-Back Police are Useless Loads and Loads of Characters Genre Throwback In Medias Res Does Not Like Shoes Pre-Mortem One-Liner Freudian Excuse Stealth Hi/Bye Deadpan Snarker Bald of Evil Major Injury Underreaction It's All About Me Immune to Bullets The Alleged Car Pimped-Out Dress Big Applesauce O.O.C. Is Serious Business Off-into-the-Distance Ending Chewing the Scenery Demonic Possession Easily Forgiven Totally Radical Happily Married The End... Or Is It? Mama Bear Translation Convention Light Is Not Good Handicapped Badass A Father to His Men The '70s Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Eldritch Abomination Grey and Gray Morality Manic Pixie Dream Girl Covers Always Lie Death of a Child Unspoken Plan Guarantee Disney Death Real Life Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Pretty Little Headshots Sports Stories Death by Sex Dark Reprise Playing Gertrude "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Blood from the Mouth The Remake Malevolent Masked Men I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Arch-Enemy Flipping the Bird Gratuitous English Death by Irony Asshole Victim Manipulative Bastard Catch-Phrase The Cameo Needs Wiki Magic Love Guile Hero Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Is a Crapshoot Hero Antagonist Fatal Family Photo One Steve Limit Race Against the Clock Extreme Doormat Plot Hole Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Match Cut Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome He Who Fights Monsters Tap on the Head Vitriolic Best Buds Reality Has No Subtitles Our Vampires Are Different Fantasy Films Mr. Exposition Vomit Discretion Shot Gold Digger Disproportionate Retribution Would Hit a Girl Eiffel Tower Effect Pyrrhic Victory Agony of the Feet Victoria's Secret Compartment Artistic License – History Roger Ebert: Great Movies List In the Back Male Gaze Madness Mantra Dramatic Irony Half the Man He Used to Be Faux Affably Evil Race Lift Double Entendre Your Cheating Heart Deconstruction Whole Plot Reference Missing Mom Super Strength Not So Stoic The Ace Unusual Euphemism Soft Glass Storming the Castle Psychological Thriller Mighty Whitey Red Eyes, Take Warning Didn't Think This Through Fish out of Water Dutch Angle He Knows Too Much Parental Incest Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Does This Remind You of Anything? Face–Heel Turn The Power of Love Comically Missing the Point Bolivian Army Ending Neck Lift Posthumous Character Anti-Villain Skewed Priorities Russian Films Throwing Your Sword Always Works Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Affably Evil Fanservice Green-Eyed Monster Never Trust a Trailer No OSHA Compliance Only One Name "Shaggy Dog" Story In Name Only Left the Background Music On Author Appeal Eureka Moment Damsel in Distress Darker and Edgier Leitmotif One-Word Title Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Dark Is Not Evil Plucky Comic Relief Make It Look Like an Accident Villain Song Distracted by the Sexy What You Are in the Dark Redshirt Army More Dakka Establishing Character Moment Danny Peary Cult Movies List Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Mystery and Detective Films Knight Templar The '80s Kids Are Cruel Made of Iron Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Ass Shove Abhorrent Admirer Death Seeker The Chessmaster Babies Ever After After the End Precision F-Strike Sequel Escalation Anachronic Order Horror Films Dumb Blonde Non-Indicative Name Unreliable Narrator Wham Line Psycho for Hire True Companions Protagonist Title Roaring Rampage of Revenge Evil Counterpart Not So Different Peek-a-Boo Corpse Intrepid Reporter Apocalypse How Works Set in World War II Bottomless Magazines The Atoner Evil Brit Morality Pet Well-Intentioned Extremist Hong Kong Films The Reveal Here We Go Again! Frame-Up Adorkable Only in It for the Money Ms. Fanservice Silence Is Golden Mood Whiplash Air-Vent Passageway It's Personal Stock Footage Shoot the Shaggy Dog Fiery Redhead Badass Longcoat The Lost Lenore Almost Kiss Obfuscating Stupidity Yandere Only Sane Man Earn Your Happy Ending Combat Pragmatist Overly Long Gag 20 Minutes into the Future Knife Nut Cool Shades Punch-Clock Villain The Cavalry Training Montage Even Evil Has Standards Novelization Serial Killer Kill 'em All Fake Shemp Chekhov's Gun And I Must Scream May–December Romance Hoist by His Own Petard Shown Their Work Fire-Forged Friends The Bad Guy Wins Captain Ersatz Twist Ending Killed Mid-Sentence I'm a Humanitarian Cold-Blooded Torture Those Two Guys Evil Plan Too Dumb to Live Celebrity Paradox The Bully Improbable Weapon User Married to the Job Your Head A-Splode Bond Villain Stupidity Fanservice Extra Batman Gambit Love at First Sight Drill Sergeant Nasty Bar Brawl Calling the Old Man Out She Cleans Up Nicely Kubrick Stare Disguised in Drag Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Only a Flesh Wound Extremely Short Timespan Nice Guy Fatal Flaw Mr. Fanservice Narrator Chiaroscuro Character Development Paper-Thin Disguise Curb-Stomp Battle Insult Backfire Insane Troll Logic Catapult Nightmare Disney Villain Death Military and Warfare Films Big Bad Suspiciously Specific Denial This Is Gonna Suck Monumental Damage The Hero No Ending Hair-Trigger Temper Villain Opening Scene The Ditz The Load Offscreen Moment of Awesome Butt-Monkey Slashed Throat It Can Think Made of Explodium The Smurfette Principle Rated M for Manly Greater-Scope Villain Took a Level in Jerkass Alpha Bitch Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Artistic License – Military Revenge Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Casting Gag "Well Done, Son!" Guy Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Ambiguous Disorder Advertised Extra Dramatic Gun Cock Reasonable Authority Figure Recycled IN SPACE! I Have Your Wife Big Bad Duumvirate Shipper on Deck Ax-Crazy Karmic Death Hollywood Darkness You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Big Fancy House Beta Couple Scare Chord Call-Forward Interrupted Suicide Foreshadowing Friend to All Children Artistic License – Law Mooks Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Jerk with a Heart of Gold Big "NO!" Cluster F-Bomb Hypocrite Kick the Dog Bad Boss Very Loosely Based on a True Story Rule of Funny Chase Scene Cool Car Slap-Slap-Kiss The Stinger Idiot Ball Mercy Kill Film Series Names to Run Away from Really Fast Wrong Genre Savvy Kill It with Fire Truth in Television Canadian Movies Not So Above It All Spiteful Spit Accidental Murder Drives Like Crazy Hero of Another Story Oh, Crap! Death by Adaptation Silent Movie Historical-Domain Character Rewatch Bonus The Sociopath What Happened to the Mouse? Back from the Dead Five-Man Band The Ghost Politically Incorrect Villain Maybe Ever After Vomit Indiscretion Shot Improbable Aiming Skills Slasher Smile Not Using the "Z" Word Early-Bird Cameo The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Expository Hairstyle Change "Awesome McCool" Name Funny Background Event Jitter Cam "The Reason You Suck" Speech Captain Obvious Unusually Uninteresting Sight Martial Arts Movie Trailers Always Spoil Artistic License – Gun Safety Even Evil Has Loved Ones The Vamp The Hero Dies Rich Bitch My God, What Have I Done? Dwindling Party Public Domain Feature Films Film Noir Index No-Sell Adaptation Expansion Rule of Cool Ghost Fiction As the Good Book Says... Amoral Attorney Motor Mouth Everyone Has Standards Implacable Man Breaking the Fourth Wall Early Installment Weirdness Broken Pedestal Artistic License – Physics Nice Hat Zombie Stories Conspicuous CG Deliberate Values Dissonance Eye Scream Adapted Out Bloody Hilarious Black Dude Dies First Product Placement For Want of a Nail Fan Disservice Outrun the Fireball Properly Paranoid The Lancer MacGuffin An Aesop Humiliation Conga Jerkass Hate Sink Mind Screw Villain Ball Ship Tease Noodle Incident Wounded Gazelle Gambit Toplessness from the Back Anti-Hero Diabolus ex Machina Undying Loyalty Gilligan Cut Bond One-Liner Book-Ends You Killed My Father Crucified Hero Shot Title Drop Large Ham Belligerent Sexual Tension Informed Ability Serious Business Man on Fire Department of Redundancy Department One-Man Army folderlabel Token Minority The '50s Scenery Porn Heroic BSoD Overprotective Dad No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Annoying Younger Sibling Homage Crapsack World Bare Your Midriff Romantic Comedy Parental Neglect Bowdlerise Foregone Conclusion Big-Bad Ensemble Unresolved Sexual Tension The Casanova Alas, Poor Villain Take That! Genre Shift Psychopathic Manchild Romantic False Lead Reality Is Unrealistic Bunny-Ears Lawyer All Men Are Perverts Reality Ensues Affectionate Parody And Starring The Faceless Camp Gay Stuff Blowing Up Adult Fear Children Are Innocent Ungrateful Bastard Together in Death Lighter and Softer