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