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The '90s The Dragon Very Loosely Based on a True Story Room Full of Crazy The Smart Guy Anti-Villain Sole Survivor As the Good Book Says... 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Crazy-Prepared Death Glare Back from the Dead Took a Level in Badass Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Black Best Friend Black Comedy Rape Canadian Movies The Lost Lenore The Film of the Book Better to Die than Be Killed Lock and Load Montage Author Appeal Cool Old Lady Japanese Films Posthumous Character Take That! 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Blood Knight Disney Villain Death Continuity Nod The Bully Early-Bird Cameo Author Avatar Dressing as the Enemy Hoist by His Own Petard Suspiciously Specific Denial Not So Above It All Kick the Dog Never Found the Body Jerkass Has a Point Dissonant Serenity Naïve Newcomer Aluminum Christmas Trees Face–Heel Turn Vacation Films Taking the Bullet Punny Name Mugging the Monster Brick Joke Drowning My Sorrows Dramatic Gun Cock Scare Chord Artistic License – Geography What Happened to the Mouse? 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Skewed Priorities Overprotective Dad Death by Irony Corpsing Deal with the Devil Fat Bastard Bi the Way Kill It with Fire The Reveal As Long as It Sounds Foreign Fantastic Racism Only Known by Their Nickname Psycho for Hire Made of Explodium Never My Fault Genre Shift Ms. Fanservice Actually Pretty Funny Police are Useless Adaptational Badass Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Disguised in Drag Too Dumb to Live Canon Foreigner A Father to His Men Meaningful Background Event Bloodless Carnage The Casanova Star-Crossed Lovers My Greatest Failure Hypocrite Did Not Get the Girl Random Events Plot Funny Foreigner Cool Car La Résistance Token Minority Plucky Comic Relief Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Public Domain Feature Films '80s Hair Faux Affably Evil Henpecked Husband Villain Ball He Knows Too Much Antagonist Title Insane Troll Logic Big Bad Duumvirate Biopic Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Morality Pet Demoted to Extra Dirty Old Man Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Match Cut Dark Reprise Badass in a Nice Suit Almost Kiss Visual Pun Fourth Date Marriage Gold Digger Wounded Gazelle Gambit Same Language Dub Vitriolic Best Buds Beware the Nice Ones Bowdlerise Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Sequel Escalation Oh, Crap! 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For Want of a Nail Training Montage Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Attempted Rape Real Life Writes the Plot Mind Screw Artistic License – Gun Safety The Vamp Parental Neglect One Steve Limit Have a Gay Old Time Large Ham Asshole Victim Up to Eleven Works Set in World War II Monumental Damage A Date with Rosie Palms You Have Failed Me Villain with Good Publicity Hidden Depths Super Strength Laser-Guided Karma Fanservice Extra Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Important Haircut Enemy Mine Shell-Shocked Veteran Dropped a Bridge on Him Bloody Hilarious Children Are Innocent Idiot Ball Nothing Is Scarier Tranquil Fury Soft Glass Adaptation Expansion Central Theme Arch-Enemy This Is Gonna Suck Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Naked People Are Funny Pragmatic Adaptation Black Dude Dies First Imagine Spot Bland-Name Product "Shaggy Dog" Story Non-Indicative Name Beard of Evil NO INDOOR VOICE Freeze-Frame Bonus Double Entendre Pimped-Out Dress An Arm and a Leg Papa Wolf Friend to All Children Action Prologue Paper-Thin Disguise Historical-Domain Character Bottomless Magazines Wicked Cultured Slasher Smile Wrong Genre Savvy Insult Backfire The Quiet One Obstructive Bureaucrat Book-Ends Big Eater Superhero Man on Fire Properly Paranoid All Men Are Perverts Punch-Clock Villain The Great Depression Easily Forgiven Failed a Spot Check Love Triangle Blackmail Cat Scare Amusing Injuries Animated Credits Opening May–December Romance Historical In-Joke Empathic Environment Sealed Evil in a Can Bloodier and Gorier Eye Scream Sci-Fi Horror Defiant to the End No-Sell Funny Background Event Disproportionate Retribution Distracted by the Sexy Off-into-the-Distance Ending Sadistic Choice A Minor Kidroduction Broken Bird Parental Incest Mad Scientist Killed Mid-Sentence Cluster F-Bomb Madness Mantra A God Am I Hope Spot Big Fancy House Homage Adaptational Villainy Hypocritical Humor Spell My Name with an "S" Actor Allusion Brainless Beauty Precision F-Strike Real Life Television Movie Index Dogged Nice Guy Outrun the Fireball Your Cheating Heart Darker and Edgier Greater-Scope Villain Comically Missing the Point Fingore Dwindling Party Coming-of-Age Story Ambiguous Ending Title Drop Storming the Castle Fiery Redhead The Mafia More Dakka Evil vs. Evil Chiaroscuro Never Trust a Trailer The Un-Reveal Roaring Rampage of Revenge A.I. Is a Crapshoot Expository Hairstyle Change Men Are the Expendable Gender Male Frontal Nudity Face Death with Dignity Celebrity Paradox Light Is Not Good Freudian Excuse Apocalypse How Bunny-Ears Lawyer Psychological Thriller Rated M for Manly Mama Bear Totally Radical Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Abhorrent Admirer Blatant Lies Death of a Child Aside Glance You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The '80s Dark Action Girl Love at First Sight The Alcoholic Bilingual Bonus Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Not Quite Dead Intrepid Reporter Pet the Dog Establishing Character Moment Hollywood Law Insistent Terminology Catch-Phrase From Bad to Worse Meaningful Name All for Nothing Framing Device Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Ax-Crazy Video Credits Fantasy Films Brutal Honesty Bald of Evil Smoking Is Cool Adaptational Attractiveness Alliterative Name After the End Neck Lift Even Evil Has Standards Reasonable Authority Figure Lampshade Hanging Jerk with a Heart of Gold No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Loophole Abuse Auto Erotica Politically Incorrect Villain Scenery Porn Heroes Want Redheads The Sociopath Fan Disservice Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Becoming the Mask Dramedy Humiliation Conga Eureka Moment What the Hell, Hero? O.O.C. Is Serious Business The Musical B-Movie Artistic License – History Kill 'em All Artistic License – Military Flipping the Bird She's Got Legs Scenery Gorn The Stoic Historical Villain Upgrade Major Injury Underreaction Ambiguous Disorder Bad Boss Ironic Echo It's All About Me Fate Worse than Death Karma Houdini Male Gaze Manipulative Bastard The Hero Dies Pyrrhic Victory Twist Ending Nice Guy The Lancer Manly Tears Smug Snake The Chessmaster No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Pretty Little Headshots Neck Snap Knife Nut Evil Is Petty Offscreen Moment of Awesome And the Adventure Continues Damsel in Distress Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Call-Forward World of Ham Ominous Latin Chanting Dutch Angle Malevolent Masked Men Parental Abandonment Playing Gertrude Leave the Camera Running Handicapped Badass Stock Footage Motor Mouth Vampire Fiction Anti-Hero Sacrificial Lion Rule of Symbolism Informed Ability Married to the Job Only One Name The '50s Martial Arts Movie Spanner in the Works Spiteful Spit For the Evulz Red Eyes, Take Warning Unwitting Instigator of Doom Slashed Throat Pretty in Mink Good Is Not Nice Drill Sergeant Nasty Exact Words Gender Flip Daddy's Girl Everyone Has Standards Really Gets Around Big Bad Casting Gag Reckless Gun Usage Broken Aesop Death by Sex Not So Stoic Adapted Out Novelization Those Wacky Nazis What You Are in the Dark Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Ambiguously Gay Anguished Declaration of Love Science Fiction Films Adaptational Heroism No Ending Fake Shemp Berserk Button Final Girl Camera Abuse Bar Brawl Mistaken for Gay Break the Haughty Mr. Exposition Heel–Face Turn Put on a Bus Creator Cameo Mooks Our Vampires Are Different British Films Villain Song Fatal Family Photo Sequel Hook Bound and Gagged Rasputinian Death Crapsack World Villain Protagonist As You Know Rich Bitch True Companions Undying Loyalty Fun with Acronyms Captain Ersatz Shipper on Deck Well-Intentioned Extremist Despair Event Horizon Noodle Incident Curse Cut Short Gainax Ending Dual Wielding Self-Deprecation Covers Always Lie "Well Done, Son!" Guy Hate Sink Fainting Mood Whiplash Combat Pragmatist Obviously Evil Once More, with Clarity! The Cavalry Bullying a Dragon The Brute Bolivian Army Ending Awesome, but Impractical The End... Or Is It? Offscreen Teleportation Trailers Always Spoil Peek-a-Boo Corpse "The Reason You Suck" Speech Mythology Gag Four-Temperament Ensemble Faking the Dead Curb-Stomp Battle Manchild Demonic Possession Affably Evil Anachronic Order Slap-Slap-Kiss Eiffel Tower Effect The Dreaded Shut Up, Hannibal! Rousing Speech Wretched Hive Last-Name Basis Camp Gay Ascended Extra Those Two Bad Guys Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Batman Gambit Eagleland Expy The '70s The Ditz Contrived Coincidence Red Herring Improbable Weapon User Break the Cutie Babies Ever After Dirty Cop Evil Sounds Deep Age Lift It Can Think N-Word Privileges In Name Only All Girls Want Bad Boys Race Lift Arranged Marriage Dying Moment of Awesome Music Stories Sassy Black Woman The Place Refuge in Audacity Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Accidental Murder As Himself An Aesop Film Noir Groin Attack Artistic License – Physics Karmic Death Gone Horribly Right Dirty Coward The Smurfette Principle Beauty Is Never Tarnished Black and Gray Morality Shout-Out Film Noir Index Ghost Fiction Protagonist Title No OSHA Compliance Evil Laugh Daylight Horror No Name Given Eyepatch of Power Even Evil Has Loved Ones The Mole From Nobody to Nightmare Police Brutality Guns Akimbo Film Series Leitmotif "Awesome McCool" Name Mighty Whitey Setting Update Butt-Monkey Anachronism Stew Adult Fear Nice Hat Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Advertised Extra And I Must Scream Retirony Zombie Stories Unreliable Narrator Improvised Weapon I Have Your Wife Disappeared Dad Diabolus ex Machina Extremely Short Timespan Reality Has No Subtitles Thriller Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Foil Double-Meaning Title The Big Guy Adaptation Dye-Job Lighter and Softer Dramatic Irony Character Development Grey and Gray Morality Only a Flesh Wound Manic Pixie Dream Girl Affectionate Parody Unusually Uninteresting Sight Foregone Conclusion Gilligan Cut Slasher Movie Adaptation Distillation I Want My Beloved to Be Happy The Ghost Domestic Abuse Foreshadowing The Bad Guy Wins Dark and Troubled Past Creepy Child Hair-Trigger Temper Jerkass Throwing Your Sword Always Works Scary Black Man Revenge Extreme Doormat Rewatch Bonus Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Beta Couple Toplessness from the Back The X of Y Deus ex Machina Defrosting Ice Queen Would Hurt a Child Crazy Jealous Guy Vomit Discretion Shot Adults Are Useless How We Got Here Five-Man Band Russian Films Crucified Hero Shot Kick the Son of a Bitch Agony of the Feet Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Frame-Up Meet Cute Creative Closing Credits BFG No Antagonist Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Suspiciously Similar Substitute Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Award-Bait Song Drugs Are Bad Green-Eyed Monster Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Disney Death Chekhov's Gunman Death Seeker Implacable Man Cool Shades Alas, Poor Villain Destination Defenestration Breaking the Fourth Wall Depraved Bisexual Shirtless Scene My Beloved Smother One-Word Title Laughing Mad Authority Equals Asskicking Downer Ending Suddenly SHOUTING! Victoria's Secret Compartment Evil-Detecting Dog Ship Tease Action Girl Moment Killer Tempting Fate Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy It's Personal The Load Kubrick Stare Genre Throwback Artistic License – Biology The Dog Bites Back Exactly What It Says on the Tin War Is Hell Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Cassandra Truth Arc Words Wham Line Dumb Blonde Hero of Another Story Say My Name Tap on the Head Market-Based Title Interrupted Suicide Genre Savvy Leaning on the Fourth Wall The Cameo Anyone Can Die Adaptation Name Change Redemption Equals Death Bond One-Liner Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Atoner Gory Discretion Shot 20 Minutes into the Future The Chick Spared by the Adaptation Rule of Three MacGuffin Boom, Headshot! Betty and Veronica Spiritual Successor Determinator aka: The Determinator Screw the Money, I Have Rules! One-Man Army Sexy Discretion Shot Composite Character Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Loads and Loads of Characters Not So Different Flashback The Hero Didn't Think This Through Ugly Guy, Hot Wife I Did What I Had to Do Only in It for the Money Armor-Piercing Question Our Zombies Are Different Getting Crap Past the Radar Italian Films Horror Comedy Credits Gag Chase Scene Romantic Comedy Early Installment Weirdness Animal Motifs "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Big-Bad Ensemble Taking You with Me Action Genre Calling the Old Man Out There Is No Kill Like Overkill