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Say My Name Slap-Slap-Kiss Have a Gay Old Time Vomit Indiscretion Shot Brutal Honesty Training Montage Video Credits Crazy Jealous Guy Jerkass A Minor Kidroduction Crazy-Prepared Car Fu Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Bad "Bad Acting" It Can Think Gainax Ending Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Crucified Hero Shot Death by Irony The Hero Blatant Lies Almost Kiss Mundane Made Awesome Bunny-Ears Lawyer Index of Film Westerns Make It Look Like an Accident Fourth Date Marriage Celebrity Paradox Daddy's Girl Slashed Throat Mad Scientist It's All About Me The Vamp Horror Comedy Facial Horror Off with His Head! 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Is Serious Business Dressing as the Enemy The Un-Reveal Even Evil Has Standards Romantic Comedy Heroic Sacrifice Cat Fight Gratuitous English Reality Ensues Expository Hairstyle Change Dies Wide Open The Alcoholic Vampire Fiction Empathic Environment Jerkass Has a Point Nothing Is Scarier Hidden Depths Hero of Another Story Names to Run Away from Really Fast Bittersweet Ending Even Evil Has Loved Ones Rousing Speech Early Installment Weirdness The '90s Ghost Fiction Driven to Suicide How We Got Here Rape as Drama La Résistance Actor Allusion No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Properly Paranoid Shout-Out Affectionate Parody Badass Grandpa I'm a Humanitarian True Companions She's Got Legs Jerk Jock Rich Bitch Woman in White More Dakka Cat Scare Unusual Euphemism Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Chekhov's Gunman Plot Hole Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Book-Ends My Greatest Failure Badass in a Nice Suit Earn Your Happy Ending Super Strength Jerk with a Heart of Gold Broken Aesop Only One Name I Have Your Wife Combat Pragmatist An Axe to Grind Adorkable Curb-Stomp Battle All for Nothing Shown Their Work Same Language Dub Suspiciously Specific Denial Author Appeal Broken Bird Dull Surprise Determinator Major Injury Underreaction Pay Evil unto Evil Villain Ball Death Seeker From Bad to Worse Idiot Ball Poor Communication Kills Sanity Slippage As Long as It Sounds Foreign Overprotective Dad Crapsack World Love Triangle Mercy Kill Neck Lift Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Handicapped Badass Noodle Incident B-Movie Outrun the Fireball The Cameo Bury Your Gays Artistic License – Biology Woman Scorned The Remake The Dog Bites Back Hypocrite Silent Movie Fan Disservice Mystery and Detective Films Punny Name Covers Always Lie Translation Convention Up to Eleven Ambiguously Gay Dwindling Party Fiery Redhead Contrived Coincidence Meaningful Echo Continuity Nod Straight Gay Not So Above It All Death Glare Eyepatch of Power Dropped a Bridge on Him Toplessness from the Back The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Cool Car Scenery Porn Setting Update Amusing Injuries Madness Mantra Fire-Forged Friends Eldritch Abomination Fantastic Racism The Brute Sequel Escalation An Aesop Vacation Films Gorn The Casanova Loads and Loads of Characters Double-Meaning Title Gender Flip Running Gag Mama Bear Ship Tease Stealth Hi/Bye I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Fantasy Films Rule of Symbolism Nice Hat Meaningful Background Event Red Oni, Blue Oni Manly Tears Leave the Camera Running Made of Iron Disguised in Drag I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Five-Man Band Pretty in Mink It's Personal Reality Is Unrealistic Captain Ersatz Rated M for Manly Creative Closing Credits Action Genre Unwitting Instigator of Doom Black Best Friend Scare Chord Ascended Extra Russian Films Downer Ending Psycho for Hire Mooks Happily Married Public Domain Feature Films Spell My Name with an "S" Drowning My Sorrows Big Bad Duumvirate Guile Hero Really Gets Around Double Entendre Femme Fatale Stock Footage Chewing the Scenery Eagleland Plucky Comic Relief Red Right Hand Half the Man He Used to Be Documentary Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Epic Movie Psychological Thriller Guns Akimbo Dark and Troubled Past Obstructive Bureaucrat Be Careful What You Wish For The Dreaded Blood from the Mouth Instant Death Bullet No Ending For Want of a Nail Shut Up, Hannibal! Bad Boss Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Biopic Vomit Discretion Shot Evil Laugh Evil-Detecting Dog Left the Background Music On Historical Hero Upgrade Re-Cut Animal Title Index Thriller Hero Antagonist Politically Incorrect Villain Twist Ending Genre Shift Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Heel–Face Turn Not Using the "Z" Word Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Corpsing Visual Pun Artistic License – History Whole Plot Reference The Sociopath Logo Joke Ominous Latin Chanting Adults Are Useless The Hero Dies Totally Radical Freeze-Frame Bonus No Celebrities Were Harmed Hypocritical Humor Storming the Castle Did Not Get the Girl Put on a Bus Genre Throwback Sinister Minister A.I. Is a Crapshoot Failed a Spot Check Conspicuous CG Evil Sounds Deep No-Sell Darker and Edgier Agony of the Feet Spared by the Adaptation Adaptational Attractiveness Disney Villain Death Non-Indicative Name Protagonist Title Pre-Mortem One-Liner Amoral Attorney Demonic Possession Dirty Coward Deconstruction Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Ironic Echo Shirtless Scene Air-Vent Passageway Cool Guns Evil Brit Fatal Flaw Decoy Protagonist Asshole Victim Heroic BSoD Extreme Doormat Overly Long Gag Final Girl Adapted Out Kubrick Stare Took a Level in Jerkass Offscreen Teleportation Historical-Domain Character "Where Are They Now?" 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Developing Doomed Characters Karmic Death In the Back Bowdlerise Honor Before Reason Alas, Poor Villain Insistent Terminology Determinator aka: The Determinator Police are Useless Motor Mouth Funny Foreigner Face Death with Dignity Redshirt Army Well-Intentioned Extremist Yandere Fanservice Extra Retirony In Name Only The Reveal Reckless Gun Usage Arc Words Unspoken Plan Guarantee Fate Worse than Death Big Damn Heroes Mugging the Monster Dramatic Irony Improvised Weapon Off-into-the-Distance Ending Better to Die than Be Killed Auto Erotica Take That! Implacable Man Historical Villain Upgrade The Stoic Beauty Is Never Tarnished Slasher Smile Immune to Bullets Silence Is Golden Deadpan Snarker Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds All Men Are Perverts Death by Sex Unresolved Sexual Tension All There in the Script Everyone Has Standards folderlabel Intrepid Reporter Danny Peary Cult Movies List And Starring Kick the Son of a Bitch Beware the Nice Ones Framing Device Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Too Dumb to Live Villain Song Once More, with Clarity! Dramedy Disney Death Room Full of Crazy Leaning on the Fourth Wall Anguished Declaration of Love Mind Screw Nice Guy My Beloved Smother Psychopathic Manchild Smug Snake Small Name, Big Ego The Musical Morality Pet She Cleans Up Nicely Butt-Monkey Jump Scare Ambiguous Ending Bavarian Fire Drill As the Good Book Says... Coming-of-Age Story Every Car Is a Pinto Cassandra Truth Precision F-Strike Posthumous Character Lampshade Hanging Disappeared Dad Moment Killer From Nobody to Nightmare Product Placement Truth in Television Evil Is Petty The Cavalry timeperiod Despair Event Horizon Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Advertised Extra Call-Back Canadian Movies Card-Carrying Villain Kill 'em All Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Tap on the Head Arch-Enemy Chiaroscuro The Big Guy Would Hit a Girl Martial Arts Movie Important Haircut Hell Is That Noise Creator Cameo The Smurfette Principle Demoted to Extra Eureka Moment Parental Substitute Match Cut Retired Badass Leitmotif Recycled IN SPACE! Large Ham Call-Forward Line-of-Sight Name Canon Foreigner The Stoner Meaningful Name Body Horror Friend to All Children Film Noir Index Artistic License – Physics Man on Fire Wrong Genre Savvy The Ghost Chase Scene Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Here We Go Again! Fish out of Water Artistic License – Geography Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Vitriolic Best Buds Sealed Evil in a Can The End... Or Is It? Eye Scream Dual Wielding Big Applesauce Daylight Horror Mood Whiplash Drives Like Crazy The Faceless Defrosting Ice Queen All Girls Want Bad Boys Kids Are Cruel Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The X of Y No OSHA Compliance Adaptation Name Change Dogged Nice Guy Sequel Hook Gone Horribly Right Ungrateful Bastard Black Dude Dies First Grey and Gray Morality Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Show Within a Show Break the Haughty Bait-and-Switch Very Loosely Based on a True Story After the End Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Anti-Hero No Name Given Time Skip Foil The Bad Guy Wins Stalker with a Crush Humiliation Conga Soundtrack Dissonance Artistic License – Gun Safety Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Informed Ability Adaptation Distillation Berserk Button Skewed Priorities Only in It for the Money Irony Not So Stoic Real Life Hong Kong Films Distracted by the Sexy Only a Flesh Wound Historical In-Joke The Quiet One Bring My Brown Pants Henpecked Husband Drill Sergeant Nasty Authority Equals Asskicking Knight Templar The Ditz Shipper on Deck Blackmail Villain Opening Scene Central Theme Heel Realization Bilingual Bonus Dark Action Girl Fanservice Author Avatar Deliberate Values Dissonance Shell-Shocked Veteran Action Prologue All There in the Manual Slasher Movie Wounded Gazelle Gambit Serious Business Due to the Dead Getting Crap Past the Radar Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Chessmaster Affably Evil Cowboy Cop Your Cheating Heart Epic Fail The Film of the Book Sacrificial Lion Drugs Are Bad Rule of Cool Composite Character Soft Glass Never Trust a Trailer Break the Cutie Narrator Big Eater Let's Get Dangerous! Cloudcuckoolander German Films Establishing Character Moment For the Evulz Hollywood Darkness Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Lock and Load Montage Our Vampires Are Different Camera Abuse Dying Moment of Awesome Gory Discretion Shot Laughing Mad Your Head A-Splode The Lancer Would Hurt a Child Cluster F-Bomb "The Reason You Suck" Speech Works Set in World War II Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Apocalypse How Genre Savvy Insane Troll Logic Took a Level in Badass Shower Scene Actually Pretty Funny May–December Romance Bland-Name Product Curse Cut Short Badass Normal Animal Motifs Rewatch Bonus Token Minority Gold Digger There Is No Kill Like Overkill Christmas Movies Index Those Two Guys No Antagonist Freudian Excuse This Is Gonna Suck Pretty Little Headshots The Chick MacGuffin Only Known by Their Nickname The Alleged Car Race Lift Mythology Gag Four-Temperament Ensemble What the Hell, Hero? Pragmatic Villainy Tagline Does This Remind You of Anything? Parental Incest Never Found the Body NO INDOOR VOICE Undying Loyalty Meet Cute