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