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Re-Cut Parental Substitute Lock and Load Montage Noodle Incident Large Ham Unusually Uninteresting Sight Darker and Edgier Australian Movies Artistic License – Biology Demonic Possession Adaptational Attractiveness Didn't Think This Through Disguised in Drag Adaptation Distillation Character Development Not So Different Bound and Gagged Ship Tease Bad Boss Protagonist Title Epic Fail Disney Death All Just a Dream Ripped from the Headlines Pre-Mortem One-Liner Exact Words Crucified Hero Shot Action Prologue Skewed Priorities Mighty Whitey The Faceless Brother–Sister Incest Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Brainless Beauty Rape as Drama Manipulative Bastard Disproportionate Retribution Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Love Triangle Overly Long Gag Works Set in World War II Suspiciously Specific Denial Almost Kiss No Antagonist Heel–Face Turn Celebrity Paradox Lampshade Hanging Paper-Thin Disguise Bar Brawl Big Fancy House Word of God Cowboy Cop Arc Words Red Right Hand Humans Are Bastards Badass Grandpa The Load Real Life Writes the Plot Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Cassandra Truth Sealed Evil in a Can Serial Killer Auto Erotica Tap on the Head Badass Bookworm Pet the Dog Psychopathic Manchild Punny Name No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Those Two Guys Award-Bait Song Homage All There in the Manual British Films Not So Stoic Defiant to the End Dirty Old Man "Awesome McCool" Name Black Best Friend Mr. Fanservice The Un-Reveal Dirty Coward Manly Tears Becoming the Mask This Is Gonna Suck Drill Sergeant Nasty Broken Aesop All for Nothing Woman Scorned Red Oni, Blue Oni I Did What I Had to Do Parental Abandonment Gold Digger Missing Mom Defrosting Ice Queen Antagonist Title Self-Deprecation Berserk Button Creepy Child Vacation Films The Film of the Book Dark Is Not Evil Knight Templar Vomit Discretion Shot Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Even Evil Has Loved Ones Big Damn Heroes Took a Level in Jerkass Dressing as the Enemy Chewing the Scenery Mad Scientist Loophole Abuse Chiaroscuro Eyepatch of Power Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy May–December Romance The Vamp Genre Savvy Jerk Jock Faux Affably Evil NO INDOOR VOICE Meaningful Echo Developing Doomed Characters Reality Ensues Show Within a Show Dwindling Party Framing Device Beauty Is Never Tarnished Good Is Not Nice Truth in Television Romantic Comedy Red Eyes, Take Warning Funny Foreigner Accidental Murder Punch-Clock Villain Dark Action Girl Authority Equals Asskicking Vampire Fiction Parental Neglect Betty and Veronica Happily Married Call-Forward Action Genre Papa Wolf Not What It Looks Like In Name Only Loads and Loads of Characters Only Known by Their Nickname "The Reason You Suck" Speech Dramatic Irony Pragmatic Adaptation Motor Mouth Demoted to Extra Properly Paranoid Anguished Declaration of Love Time Skip Flashback Deliberately Monochrome Obstructive Bureaucrat Laughing Mad Credits Gag Curb-Stomp Battle Throwing Your Sword Always Works Fan Disservice Intergenerational Friendship Dull Surprise Attempted Rape Evil Is Petty Storming the Castle Crazy-Prepared Badass Normal Small Name, Big Ego Really Gets Around Artistic License – Law Hollywood Darkness Together in Death Country Matters Tempting Fate Chase Scene Artistic License – Gun Safety Running Gag Earn Your Happy Ending "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Ambiguous Disorder Mythology Gag Thriller Be Careful What You Wish For The Cameo Manchild Ungrateful Bastard Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Woman in White I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Sequel Hook Famous Last Words Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Rule of Cool The Stoner The Remake Dutch Angle Title Drop Crazy Jealous Guy Novelization Slasher Smile Military and Warfare Films B-Movie Death by Irony Mystery and Detective Films Cool Old Guy Curse Cut Short The Stinger Hoist by His Own Petard Dogged Nice Guy A Date with Rosie Palms No-Sell Boom, Headshot! Not Using the "Z" Word Naked People Are Funny Line-of-Sight Name Covers Always Lie Slasher Movie Gone Horribly Right Immune to Bullets Captain Ersatz Room Full of Crazy Say My Name Plucky Comic Relief Batman Gambit Enemy Mine Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Police are Useless Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Nice Hat Straight Gay I'm a Humanitarian Unspoken Plan Guarantee Meaningful Name Killed Mid-Sentence Improbable Weapon User Determinator aka: The Determinator Ass Shove Disappeared Dad Lighter and Softer Bowdlerise Creative Closing Credits The Dreaded The '80s After the End Cat Scare Ugly Guy, Hot Wife As You Know Half the Man He Used to Be Soft Glass She's Got Legs All Girls Want Bad Boys Reckless Gun Usage Token Minority Male Frontal Nudity Leitmotif Author Avatar Maybe Ever After Rule of Funny Ascended Extra folderlabel Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Butt-Monkey As Long as It Sounds Foreign Our Vampires Are Different Kill It with Fire Not So Above It All Amusing Injuries Adaptational Badass The Hero Dies Ax-Crazy Spanner in the Works Public Domain Feature Films Documentary Genre Shift Major Injury Underreaction Retired Badass Hair-Trigger Temper Market-Based Title Obfuscating Stupidity Wicked Cultured Adaptation Name Change A Minor Kidroduction Toplessness from the Back Reality Has No Subtitles Distracted by the Sexy All There in the Script Better to Die than Be Killed Dual Wielding Death of a Child The Smart Guy Eagleland Dramedy Brick Joke The Casanova