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An Aesop Spanner in the Works The Remake Humiliation Conga Made of Iron Evil Counterpart Better to Die than Be Killed Russian Films Hollywood Law Trailers Always Spoil Meaningful Echo Black Comedy Australian Movies Historical-Domain Character Greater-Scope Villain MacGuffin What Happened to the Mouse? Genre Savvy The Vamp Cat Scare Reality Has No Subtitles Batman Gambit Only a Flesh Wound Bloodier and Gorier The Alcoholic For Want of a Nail Bare Your Midriff Extreme Doormat Rule of Symbolism Department of Redundancy Department Have a Gay Old Time Only Known by Their Nickname Left the Background Music On Adaptational Villainy Heel Realization The Un-Reveal Vitriolic Best Buds I Need a Freaking Drink Red Right Hand Aluminum Christmas Trees Reckless Gun Usage Unresolved Sexual Tension Adaptational Badass The Cameo Tagline Early Installment Weirdness The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Honor Before Reason You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Smug Snake Bilingual Bonus Eureka Moment I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Demoted to Extra Unwitting Instigator of Doom Deus ex Machina Implacable Man All There in the Script Femme Fatale Gilligan Cut Anguished Declaration of Love Combat Pragmatist Cowboy Cop Jump Scare All Men Are Perverts Wicked Cultured Not So Above It All The Mole Bloody Hilarious Really Gets Around Love at First Sight Freudian Excuse Villain with Good Publicity Super Strength Parental Incest Tempting Fate Redemption Equals Death Big Fancy House Loophole Abuse Asshole Victim Soft Glass You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Disappeared Dad Corrupt Corporate Executive Retired Badass And I Must Scream Unreliable Narrator The Oner Hong Kong Films Ironic Echo Reality Ensues Not So Stoic Wounded Gazelle Gambit The Casanova Despair Event Horizon Shipper on Deck Translation Convention One-Word Title Re-Cut Outrun the Fireball Jerkass Kill 'em All Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Beard of Evil Black and Gray Morality Playing Gertrude The Quiet One You Have Failed Me Fiery Redhead Red Shirt Dull Surprise Film Noir Index Distracted by the Sexy Good Is Not Nice Diabolus ex Machina Stock Footage Riddle for the Ages Shirtless Scene Show Within a Show This Is Gonna Suck Mood Whiplash Blood Knight Dwindling Party Artistic License – Physics Dressing as the Enemy Funny Foreigner Missing Mom NO INDOOR VOICE Brutal Honesty Deal with the Devil Spell My Name with an "S" The '80s Dark and Troubled Past Vomit Indiscretion Shot Anachronic Order Covers Always Lie Cluster F-Bomb Hoist by His Own Petard No OSHA Compliance The Bad Guy Wins Neck Lift Jerkass Has a Point Card-Carrying Villain Camera Abuse Protagonist Title I Have Your Wife Sealed Evil in a Can Actually Pretty Funny Sexy Discretion Shot Monumental Damage Zombie Stories Big-Bad Ensemble Fainting Mama Bear Bloodless Carnage Pretty Little Headshots Lock and Load Montage From Bad to Worse Eye Scream Insistent Terminology Not Quite Dead Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Poor Communication Kills Obfuscating Stupidity Random Events Plot Shoot the Shaggy Dog Foregone Conclusion Darkest Hour Men Are the Expendable Gender Sacrificial Lion Scary Black Man Daddy's Girl Rule of Three Off-into-the-Distance Ending Retcon Horror Films Pyrrhic Victory Small Name, Big Ego Jitter Cam Creepy Child Mind Screw Mystery and Detective Films Children Are Innocent Eiffel Tower Effect Took a Level in Badass No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Handicapped Badass Obviously Evil Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Cold-Blooded Torture Sports Stories Taking You with Me Ambiguous Ending Stealth Hi/Bye Mistaken for Gay Beauty Is Never Tarnished Improbable Aiming Skills The Ghost Mighty Whitey Dying Moment of Awesome The Brute Cain and Abel Badass Normal Punny Name Drives Like Crazy Deliberately Monochrome I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Ripped from the Headlines Darker and Edgier Death by Sex Never Trust a Trailer Only One Name Evil Plan A God Am I Dogged Nice Guy Villain Opening Scene Death by Adaptation Only Sane Man Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Running Gag Mythology Gag Psychopathic Manchild Alliterative Name Bavarian Fire Drill Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Drowning My Sorrows Henpecked Husband Aside Glance Boom, Headshot! Dropped a Bridge on Him Animated Credits Opening Pay Evil unto Evil Bury Your Gays Dissonant Serenity Noodle Incident Interrupted Suicide Narrator Karmic Death Self-Deprecation Facial Horror Historical Hero Upgrade Laser-Guided Karma Affectionate Parody No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Half the Man He Used to Be Annoying Younger Sibling Never Found the Body French Films Cat Fight Instant Death Bullet Guile Hero Beta Couple Film Noir Ass Shove Badass Boast Index of Film Westerns Chase Scene What the Hell, Hero? Hope Spot The '60s Alpha Bitch No Name Given "The Reason You Suck" Speech Fire-Forged Friends Suspiciously Similar Substitute Precision F-Strike Wham Shot Action Genre Slashed Throat Plucky Comic Relief Knife Nut Bond Villain Stupidity An Axe to Grind Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds She Cleans Up Nicely Ambiguously Gay Coming-of-Age Story The Ace Together in Death The '70s Blood from the Mouth Not Even Bothering with the Accent Catapult Nightmare After the End Blatant Lies Faking the Dead Closed Circle Gory Discretion Shot Ungrateful Bastard Driven to Suicide Friend to All Children Evil-Detecting Dog Crapsack World Well-Intentioned Extremist Anyone Can Die Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Costume Porn You Killed My Father Expy Male Gaze Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Fantasy Films Twist Ending Deliberate Values Dissonance Posthumous Character Fish out of Water Loads and Loads of Characters Sanity Slippage Once More, with Clarity! Historical Villain Upgrade Serious Business Sole Survivor A Minor Kidroduction All Girls Want Bad Boys "Where Are They Now?" 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Would Hurt a Child Babies Ever After Leaning on the Fourth Wall Dirty Cop Foreshadowing Bittersweet Ending Suspiciously Specific Denial Roaring Rampage of Revenge Dark Action Girl Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Heel–Face Turn Manly Tears Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas My Greatest Failure Spared by the Adaptation Genre Shift The Dreaded Anachronism Stew Improvised Weapon Love Triangle Fan Disservice Crazy-Prepared The Lost Lenore Badass Longcoat Parental Substitute It Can Think Everyone Has Standards Author Appeal As Long as It Sounds Foreign Punch-Clock Villain Recycled IN SPACE! Star-Crossed Lovers Leitmotif Chekhov's Skill Idiot Ball Refuge in Audacity Up to Eleven Taking the Bullet Did Not Get the Girl Car Fu Gold Digger Expository Hairstyle Change Bad "Bad Acting" Canadian Movies Stealth Pun Truth in Television Exactly What It Says on the Tin Big Damn Heroes Back from the Dead Manic Pixie Dream Girl Disney Villain Death Silent Movie The Voiceless Almost Kiss Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Reality Is Unrealistic Determinator Never My Fault Big Bad One Steve Limit Even Evil Has Loved Ones Extremely Short Timespan Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Too Dumb to Live Double-Meaning Title Humans Are Bastards Does This Remind You of Anything? The Sociopath He Who Fights Monsters Genre Throwback Authority Equals Asskicking Curb-Stomp Battle The Reveal Advertised Extra Brother–Sister Incest Overprotective Dad War Is Hell 20 Minutes into the Future Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The Stinger Those Wacky Nazis Defrosting Ice Queen Be Careful What You Wish For Here We Go Again! Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Broken Pedestal Every Car Is a Pinto Informed Ability Mugging the Monster Evil Sounds Deep Flipping the Bird Death by Irony Room Full of Crazy Ship Tease The Cavalry Bar Brawl Ugly Guy, Hot Wife What You Are in the Dark Man on Fire From Nobody to Nightmare Arc Words The Load O.O.C. Is Serious Business Kubrick Stare Not Using the "Z" Word Call-Back Breaking the Fourth Wall Black Dude Dies First Captain Obvious Shown Their Work Totally Radical Not What It Looks Like Bi the Way Abusive Parents Fanservice Extra Evil vs. Evil Adaptation Dye-Job Four-Temperament Ensemble Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Award-Bait Song Moment Killer Throwing Your Sword Always Works Tranquil Fury Lighter and Softer Faux Affably Evil Offscreen Teleportation Grey and Gray Morality Villainous Breakdown Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Dramatic Gun Cock Alas, Poor Villain Gainax Ending Let's Get Dangerous! Scenery Gorn Fingore Adapted Out Heroes Want Redheads Film Series Pet the Dog Adults Are Useless One-Man Army Mooks Creative Closing Credits Bring My Brown Pants Easily Forgiven Brick Joke Epic Movie And the Adventure Continues Heroic Sacrifice The End... Or Is It? Pragmatic Villainy Needs Wiki Magic Love Antagonist Title Not So Different Cool Old Guy Corpsing Sequel Escalation Meaningful Background Event Gone Horribly Right Fun with Acronyms Setting Update Unusual Euphemism Badass in a Nice Suit Police Brutality Famous Last Words Failed a Spot Check Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Ms. Fanservice Stepford Smiler Daylight Horror Names to Run Away from Really Fast Framing Device Death Seeker Adaptational Attractiveness My God, What Have I Done? Red Herring Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Non-Indicative Name Meet Cute Hell Is That Noise The Hero The Chessmaster Slasher Movie Meaningful Name folderlabel Word of God Destination Defenestration Toplessness from the Back Rich Bitch Took a Level in Jerkass Betty and Veronica Celebrity Paradox Break the Haughty Match Cut Romantic Comedy The Smurfette Principle Slasher Smile Face–Heel Turn Animal Title Index Unspoken Plan Guarantee A.I. Is a Crapshoot Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Anti-Hero Smoking Is Cool Face Death with Dignity Developing Doomed Characters The Starscream Make It Look Like an Accident Actor Allusion Gender Flip Wretched Hive Skewed Priorities The Place Neck Snap Country Matters No-Sell Depraved Bisexual Action Prologue Scare Chord Bald of Evil World of Ham Kick the Son of a Bitch Adaptation Expansion Armor-Piercing Question Television Movie Index Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Badass Bookworm The Lancer Naïve Newcomer Cool Guns The Dog Bites Back Drill Sergeant Nasty Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Chiaroscuro Sequel Hook Peek-a-Boo Corpse Ascended Extra Hollywood Darkness Abhorrent Admirer Artistic License – Gun Safety Attempted Rape Bottomless Magazines Bunny-Ears Lawyer All There in the Manual British Films Rousing Speech All Just a Dream Paper-Thin Disguise Sadistic Choice Only in It for the Money Sassy Black Woman Same Language Dub Offscreen Moment of Awesome In the Back As Himself Irony Didn't Think This Through Laughing Mad Ghost Fiction Evil Brit Adaptation Distillation Get Out! Brainless Beauty Captain Ersatz Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Grievous Bottley Harm Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Becoming the Mask Knight Templar Shell-Shocked Veteran Call-Forward Parental Neglect Character Development Nice Hat Cool Old Lady Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Psycho for Hire Sci-Fi Horror Book-Ends The Stoic Disney Death Bullying a Dragon Catch-Phrase The '50s Police are Useless The Ditz Big Brother Instinct Take That! Spiteful Spit Woman Scorned Take a Third Option Put on a Bus Would Hit a Girl Karma Houdini Ominous Latin Chanting Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Due to the Dead Heroic BSoD More Dakka Awesome, but Impractical Composite Character She's Got Legs Dutch Angle Our Vampires Are Different Product Placement Rewatch Bonus Bland-Name Product Superhero Amusing Injuries Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Artistic License – Law Curse Cut Short Cloudcuckoolander Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Revenge Does Not Like Shoes Christmas Movies Index Action Survivor Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! It's Personal Red Eyes, Take Warning Plot Hole Worthy Opponent Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Nothing Is Scarier Stalker with a Crush Intergenerational Friendship Butt-Monkey Tap on the Head True Companions As the Good Book Says... Vacation Films Heterosexual Life-Partners Horror Comedy Suddenly SHOUTING! Thriller Race Lift Berserk Button Your Head A-Splode Agony of the Feet Naked People Are Funny La Résistance The Mafia Sinister Minister Determinator aka: The Determinator Five-Man Band Mundane Made Awesome Major Injury Underreaction Adorkable Soundtrack Dissonance Gorn For the Evulz Black Best Friend Married to the Job Fat Bastard Downer Ending Last-Name Basis Insult Backfire Evil Is Hammy The Stoner Madness Mantra Affably Evil Broken Bird Public Domain Feature Films Action Girl Calling the Old Man Out Older Than They Look Very Loosely Based on a True Story Line-of-Sight Name Demonic Possession Slap-Slap-Kiss I Did What I Had to Do Scenery Porn Credits Gag B-Movie Lampshade Hanging As You Know Silence Is Golden Manipulative Bastard A Father to His Men The Musical The Alleged Car German Films Chewing the Scenery Eldritch Abomination