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Guy Dogged Nice Guy Genre Shift The Reveal Didn't Think This Through Soundtrack Dissonance Heroes Want Redheads timeperiod Took a Level in Jerkass Only Known by Their Nickname Mr. Fanservice Never My Fault The Ace Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Funny Background Event Ms. Fanservice Translation Convention Chase Scene folderlabel Half the Man He Used to Be Silent Movie Becoming the Mask Death by Sex Adapted Out Adaptation Distillation From Bad to Worse Cool Shades Instant Death Bullet Evil Is Hammy Enemy Mine Cool Old Guy Jerkass Has a Point Manly Tears Call-Back Reality Ensues Alpha Bitch Taking the Bullet Face–Heel Turn Monumental Damage Failed a Spot Check The Sociopath Badass Boast Black and Gray Morality Rich Bitch Market-Based Title Damsel in Distress The Ditz The Oner The Great Depression Obstructive Bureaucrat Fan Disservice Smoking Is Cool Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Blatant Lies Combat Pragmatist Body Horror Woman in White Naked People Are Funny Foil Totally Radical Trailers Always Spoil Author Appeal Australian Movies Playing Gertrude Guns Akimbo Annoying Younger Sibling Facial Horror Men Are the Expendable Gender Hooker with a Heart of Gold Cat Scare Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Shell-Shocked Veteran All There in the Manual Kick the Dog Fanservice Extra Slashed Throat Insult Backfire Evil Sounds Deep Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Call-Forward The Vamp Fun with Acronyms Pimped-Out Dress The '50s Fish out of Water Gilligan Cut Only a Flesh Wound Disney Death Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Humiliation Conga Broken Pedestal Left the Background Music On Decoy Protagonist Leaning on the Fourth Wall A Father to His Men The Bully Karmic Death All There in the Script Put on a Bus Deadpan Snarker Tempting Fate Creator Cameo In Medias Res Leave the Camera Running Blackmail Video Credits Here We Go Again! Hope Spot Blood from the Mouth Obfuscating Stupidity Adults Are Useless Straight Gay Psychological Thriller Bland-Name Product Suspiciously Specific Denial Public Domain Feature Films A.I. Is a Crapshoot Japanese Films Casting Gag O.O.C. Is Serious Business Due to the Dead Camp Gay The Lancer Sealed Evil in a Can Grievous Bottley Harm Our Vampires Are Different Canadian Movies Almost Kiss Historical Villain Upgrade Authority Equals Asskicking Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Faux Affably Evil She Cleans Up Nicely Aluminum Christmas Trees In Name Only Credits Gag Shown Their Work True Companions Male Frontal Nudity Animal Title Index Red Eyes, Take Warning Femme Fatale Scary Black Man Pretty Little Headshots "Awesome McCool" Name Ambiguously Gay Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Stock Footage Lock and Load Montage Curse Cut Short Historical-Domain Character Attempted Rape Anachronism Stew Arc Words The Un-Reveal Sports Stories As the Good Book Says... 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Hollywood Law Crazy Jealous Guy Animated Credits Opening Index of Film Westerns The Bad Guy Wins Better to Die than Be Killed Captain Obvious One Steve Limit Jerk with a Heart of Gold Mr. Exposition Black Comedy Rape Dying Moment of Awesome The Stoic Pretty in Mink BFG Eiffel Tower Effect Skewed Priorities Pay Evil unto Evil Double Entendre What Happened to the Mouse? Obviously Evil I Did What I Had to Do '80s Hair Jitter Cam Faking the Dead Chekhov's Gun Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Historical Hero Upgrade Big Eater Wrong Genre Savvy Mind Screw Mythology Gag Small Name, Big Ego Police Brutality Shut Up, Hannibal! Dark Is Not Evil Those Wacky Nazis Older Than They Look Noodle Incident Together in Death Take That! 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Depraved Bisexual Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie He Knows Too Much Your Cheating Heart She's Got Legs Romantic False Lead Serious Business Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Mood Whiplash Villain Opening Scene Refuge in Audacity Overprotective Dad Scare Chord Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Gold Digger Biopic Heel–Face Turn Took a Level in Badass Psychopathic Manchild Mexican Standoff Dutch Angle Oh, Crap! Title Drop Cloudcuckoolander Vacation Films Funny Foreigner Music Stories Sequel Hook French Films Cain and Abel Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Show Within a Show Big-Bad Ensemble Bloodless Carnage Made of Iron Overly Long Gag Jerk Jock Film Noir No Ending Daylight Horror Last-Name Basis Sole Survivor Mundane Made Awesome Once More, with Clarity! Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Adult Fear Amusing Injuries Heel Realization Scenery Porn Married to the Job Neck Lift Parental Substitute You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Everyone Has Standards Kubrick Stare Actually Pretty Funny My Greatest Failure Dirty Coward Irony Villain with Good Publicity Unwitting Instigator of Doom Visual Pun Central Theme Mad Scientist Green-Eyed Monster Bavarian Fire Drill I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Truth in Television N-Word Privileges A Minor Kidroduction Hidden Depths The '70s Bowdlerise Deliberately Monochrome Genre Savvy Greater-Scope Villain Ominous Latin Chanting Romantic Comedy Fake Shemp Catapult Nightmare Auto Erotica Dual Wielding Broken Aesop Deus ex Machina Fourth Date Marriage Humans Are Bastards The Smart Guy Based on a True Story Ironic Echo Silence Is Golden Fatal Flaw Bloodier and Gorier The Dog Bites Back Conspicuous CG Curb-Stomp Battle Fat Bastard Dropped a Bridge on Him Rewatch Bonus Ship Tease Cool Guns Heroic BSoD Italian Films I Need a Freaking Drink Knife Nut Beauty Is Never Tarnished It's Personal Karma Houdini Sexy Discretion Shot Age Lift Protagonist Title Zombie Stories Driven to Suicide You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Product Placement Tap on the Head Children Are Innocent It Can Think Red Oni, Blue Oni Coming-of-Age Story Adaptational Badass Big Applesauce Bunny-Ears Lawyer Spell My Name with an "S" Not So Different Badass Bookworm Fire-Forged Friends Film Noir Index Rasputinian Death Precision F-Strike He Who Fights Monsters Light Is Not Good Beta Couple Nice Hat Throwing Your Sword Always Works One-Word Title Creative Closing Credits Time Skip Made of Explodium Large Ham Unusual Euphemism Drives Like Crazy Hypocritical Humor Fainting Narrator Even Evil Has Loved Ones Suspiciously Similar Substitute Never Trust a Trailer Crucified Hero Shot Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Sequel Escalation Badass Normal Spanner in the Works Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Boom, Headshot! Groin Attack Dramatic Gun Cock Adaptational Attractiveness Corrupt Corporate Executive Affectionate Parody Genre Throwback Mama Bear Martial Arts Movie Adaptation Expansion Spiritual Successor Happily Married All Men Are Perverts Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Too Dumb to Live Big Bad Duumvirate The Load The Brute Reality Is Unrealistic And the Adventure Continues NO INDOOR VOICE The Chessmaster Manipulative Bastard Heroic Sacrifice Dumb Blonde Slasher Smile Defiant to the End No Celebrities Were Harmed Artistic License – Military Psycho for Hire Bad Boss Ambiguous Ending Loophole Abuse Action Girl Continuity Nod Improvised Weapon Book-Ends Hair-Trigger Temper Danny Peary Cult Movies List Chiaroscuro Not So Above It All The Film of the Book Evil Brit The Cameo Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies There Is No Kill Like Overkill Exact Words Television Movie Index Self-Deprecation Offscreen Teleportation World of Ham Gratuitous English Arch-Enemy La Résistance Vomit Indiscretion Shot Hong Kong Films How We Got Here Hollywood Darkness "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Mugging the Monster Villain Song Abusive Parents Bury Your Gays Idiot Ball Be Careful What You Wish For Rule of Cool Corpsing Disappeared Dad Laser-Guided Karma Fate Worse than Death Bittersweet Ending The '80s Victoria's Secret Compartment Demoted to Extra Training Montage Actor Allusion Comically Missing the Point Toplessness from the Back Chekhov's Gunman Kill It with Fire Names to Run Away from Really Fast Pyrrhic Victory Soft Glass Eye Scream Eyepatch of Power Apocalypse How It's All About Me Make It Look Like an Accident Token Minority Vampire Fiction Artistic License – Physics The Alcoholic Double-Meaning Title The Hero Plucky Comic Relief Take a Third Option Abhorrent Admirer Cat Fight Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Only Sane Man Black Comedy Logo Joke Revenge Bi the Way Mistaken for Gay Brick Joke Kill 'em All Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Kids Are Cruel Sassy Black Woman Dressing as the Enemy Never Found the Body Really Gets Around After the End Big Bad Line-of-Sight Name Freudian Excuse Darker and Edgier Superhero Only One Name Face Death with Dignity Those Two Bad Guys The Mafia Bilingual Bonus Vitriolic Best Buds The End... Or Is It? No-Sell Dramedy Serial Killer Domestic Abuse Unusually Uninteresting Sight Manchild Freeze-Frame Bonus Killed Mid-Sentence Red Herring Butt-Monkey Yandere German Films Politically Incorrect Villain Does Not Like Shoes Ass Shove In the Back Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Black Dude Dies First Diabolus ex Machina Rousing Speech Early Installment Weirdness Black Best Friend Poor Communication Kills All for Nothing Implacable Man Gory Discretion Shot Retirony Department of Redundancy Department Peek-a-Boo Corpse Insane Troll Logic Artistic License – Geography Affably Evil Back from the Dead Recycled IN SPACE! The Cavalry Closed Circle Plot Hole Celebrity Paradox Spared by the Adaptation Bare Your Midriff Death by Adaptation The Big Guy Break the Cutie Anti-Villain Demonic Possession Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Crapsack World Gainax Ending Cool Car Dark Action Girl Wham Line Anachronic Order Adaptational Villainy Anguished Declaration of Love A God Am I Dirty Cop The Smurfette Principle Christmas Movies Index Gorn Eldritch Abomination Early-Bird Cameo Dissonant Serenity Fatal Family Photo Smug Snake Intrepid Reporter Adaptation Name Change Evil Laugh Reality Has No Subtitles Immune to Bullets Works Set in World War II Wretched Hive Russian Films Sanity Slippage The Place Super Strength Easily Forgiven No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Missing Mom Love Triangle Wham Shot Alas, Poor Villain Artistic License – History Nothing Is Scarier For Want of a Nail Handicapped Badass Major Injury Underreaction Reasonable Authority Figure Rule of Three Shoot the Shaggy Dog Fiery Redhead MacGuffin Author Avatar I'm a Humanitarian Ungrateful Bastard Villain Ball Shipper on Deck Expository Hairstyle Change Storming the Castle The Quiet One Character Development May–December Romance Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The Chick Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Good Is Not Nice Informed Ability Knight Templar Asshole Victim Get Out! The Musical Spiteful Spit Developing Doomed Characters Foreshadowing Evil Is Petty Science Fiction Films Those Two Guys My Beloved Smother War Is Hell Scenery Gorn An Axe to Grind Properly Paranoid Worthy Opponent Dwindling Party Action Prologue Belligerent Sexual Tension Daddy's Girl Even Evil Has Standards Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Deal with the Devil Rated M for Manly Artistic License – Gun Safety 20 Minutes into the Future Stalker with a Crush Papa Wolf Bond One-Liner Red Right Hand My God, What Have I Done? Brother–Sister Incest Historical In-Joke What You Are in the Dark Brutal Honesty Ripped from the Headlines Batman Gambit Very Loosely Based on a True Story Sinister Minister Retcon You Killed My Father Slasher Movie Destination Defenestration Bolivian Army Ending Death Seeker Madness Mantra Punny Name Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Big "NO!" Meaningful Background Event Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Thriller Male Gaze Insistent Terminology Costume Porn The Mole The Atoner Your Head A-Splode Meet Cute Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Did Not Get the Girl Whole Plot Reference Moment Killer Adaptation Dye-Job Mercy Kill Bound and Gagged Running Gag Dies Wide Open Agony of the Feet The Voiceless Blood Knight Intergenerational Friendship Horror Films More Dakka Woman Scorned Disney Villain Death Stepford Smiler Action Genre Flashback Card-Carrying Villain The Alleged Car Would Hit a Girl Cassandra Truth Anti-Hero As You Know Have a Gay Old Time