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Say My Name
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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As You Know
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From Nobody to Nightmare
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Mr. Fanservice
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Kill 'em All
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Missing Mom
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Bond Villain Stupidity
Thriller
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Darkest Hour
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Drugs Are Bad
Red Eyes, Take Warning
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Credits Gag
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Sealed Evil in a Can
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The Cavalry
Spell My Name with an "S"
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Nice Hat
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
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Undying Loyalty
Anachronism Stew
The Place
Agony of the Feet
All There in the Manual
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Riddle for the Ages
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Properly Paranoid
Stuff Blowing Up
Parental Abandonment
Vomit Indiscretion Shot
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Bald of Evil
Evil Is Petty
Rasputinian Death
Toplessness from the Back
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Awesome, but Impractical
Groin Attack
Death by Irony
Fanservice
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Outrun the Fireball
Book-Ends
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Tempting Fate
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Tranquil Fury
Cool Old Lady
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Ungrateful Bastard
Humans Are Bastards
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Time Skip
What the Hell, Hero?
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Obviously Evil
Artistic License History
Eagleland
Bloody Hilarious
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
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Evil Is Hammy
Amoral Attorney
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Eyepatch of Power
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Depraved Bisexual
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Five-Man Band
Kill It with Fire
In the Back
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Never My Fault
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Love at First Sight
Guile Hero
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Pet the Dog
Blood from the Mouth
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Here We Go Again!
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Music Stories
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Butt-Monkey
Dirty Old Man
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Adults Are Useless
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Real Life Writes the Plot
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
From Bad to Worse
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The Hero
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What You Are in the Dark
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Scare Chord
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Redshirt Army
Light Is Not Good
Destination Defenestration
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Protagonist Title
Room Full of Crazy
All Just a Dream
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Your Cheating Heart
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Anyone Can Die
Back from the Dead
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Earn Your Happy Ending
Corrupt Corporate Executive
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Be Careful What You Wish For
Redemption Equals Death
Friend to All Children
Irony
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Meet Cute
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Would Hurt a Child
Ax-Crazy
Stealth Hi/Bye
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Big "NO!"
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Smoking Is Cool
Historical Villain Upgrade
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All for Nothing
Evil Counterpart
Unresolved Sexual Tension
Jitter Cam
Not Quite Dead
Roger Ebert: Great Movies List
My Greatest Failure
"Shaggy Dog" Story
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The End... Or Is It?
Our Zombies Are Different
Line-of-Sight Name
Older Than They Look
This Is Gonna Suck
Face Death with Dignity
Villain Song
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Shell-Shocked Veteran
Broken Aesop
Suspiciously Similar Substitute
20 Minutes into the Future
No-Sell
Gratuitous English
Big Applesauce
No Ending
Calling the Old Man Out
Film Noir Index
Kick the Dog
Silence Is Golden
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One Steve Limit
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Actually Pretty Funny
Empathic Environment
Title Drop
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Bowdlerise
Woman Scorned
Word of God
One-Word Title
Deal with the Devil
Video Credits
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aka: The Determinator
Straight Gay
It Will Never Catch On
Made of Explodium
The Remake
Country Matters
Demoted to Extra
Sexy Discretion Shot
'80s Hair
Evil-Detecting Dog
Drives Like Crazy
Hoist by His Own Petard
Deliberate Values Dissonance
Gainax Ending
Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Everyone Has Standards
After the End
Pretty Little Headshots
Red Oni, Blue Oni
"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
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Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience
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Public Domain Feature Films
Dramatic Irony
No Celebrities Were Harmed
Death by Sex
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Playing Gertrude
Took a Level in Badass
Bare Your Midriff
Dutch Angle
Never Trust a Trailer
aka: Trailers Always Lie
Didn't Think This Through
Department of Redundancy Department
Only One Name
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Trailers Always Spoil
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Femme Fatale
Punch-Clock Villain
Gold Digger
Mythology Gag
Spiteful Spit
Artistic License Biology
Vitriolic Best Buds
Grievous Bottley Harm
Black Comedy Rape
Catch-Phrase
Creative Closing Credits
Slap-Slap-Kiss
Grey and Gray Morality
Shout-Out
Sequel Hook
Really Gets Around
Shut Up, Hannibal!
Contrived Coincidence
The Vamp
The Chick
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Pay Evil unto Evil
And the Adventure Continues
Improbable Infant Survival
aka: Infant Immortality
Fire-Forged Friends
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Bullying a Dragon
I Did What I Had to Do
Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Drill Sergeant Nasty
Big Damn Heroes
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
Greater-Scope Villain
Australian Movies
Never Trust a Trailer
Wham Shot
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In Medias Res
Dark and Troubled Past
Cassandra Truth
Novelization
Artistic License Gun Safety
Implacable Man
Canon Foreigner
Accidental Murder
Super Strength
Affably Evil
Fate Worse than Death
Obfuscating Stupidity
Pre-Mortem One-Liner
British Films
Noodle Incident
Call-Forward
Better to Die than Be Killed
Corpsing
Scenery Porn
Age Lift
Documentary
Fun with Acronyms
Sci-Fi Horror