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She Cleans Up Nicely
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The End... Or Is It?
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
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I Did What I Had to Do
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What You Are in the Dark
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign
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It Can Think
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Didn't Think This Through
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Nice Guy
Evil Plan
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Artistic License Physics
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Disappeared Dad
The Vamp
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Jerkass Has a Point
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The Place
Leave the Camera Running
Epic Movie
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Bloodier and Gorier
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Truth in Television
The Dreaded
A Date with Rosie Palms
Throwing Your Sword Always Works
Fan Disservice
Death Glare
Drugs Are Bad
Men Are the Expendable Gender
I Have Your Wife
Those Wacky Nazis
Breaking the Fourth Wall
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A Father to His Men
It's Personal
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Silence Is Golden
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Dropped a Bridge on Him
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Shut Up, Hannibal!
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Took a Level in Jerkass
Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Ass Shove
Room Full of Crazy
My Beloved Smother
Biopic
Ripped from the Headlines
Humiliation Conga
Training Montage
Death Seeker
Only Sane Man
Blood from the Mouth
What the Hell, Hero?
Thriller
The Atoner
Leitmotif
The Bad Guy Wins
For the Evulz
Idiot Ball
Call-Forward
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Instant Death Bullet
Be Careful What You Wish For
Advertised Extra
Adapted Out
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Stock Footage
He Knows Too Much
Character Development
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
No-Sell
An Arm and a Leg
Tranquil Fury
Artistic License Law
Pragmatic Villainy
Book-Ends
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Fiery Redhead
What Happened to the Mouse?
Dressing as the Enemy
World of Ham
The Bully
Slasher Smile
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Let's Get Dangerous!
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Historical-Domain Character
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Improbable Aiming Skills
Shell-Shocked Veteran
Animal Title Index
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Evil Brit
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Expy
Redshirt Army
Playing Gertrude
Not So Stoic
Get Out!
Never Trust a Trailer
Police Brutality
From Nobody to Nightmare
Calling the Old Man Out
Spared by the Adaptation
Redemption Equals Death
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Real Life Writes the Plot
Big Applesauce
Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Improbable Weapon User
Wham Shot
Chekhov's Gun
The X of Y
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Faking the Dead
Anti-Hero
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Broken Aesop
War Is Hell
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Love Triangle
Ambiguous Disorder
After the End
Parental Abandonment
All There in the Script
Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Big Bad Duumvirate
Amoral Attorney
Femme Fatale
Villain Song
Captain Ersatz
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Damsel in Distress
Last-Name Basis
Your Cheating Heart
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Berserk Button
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Anyone Can Die
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Hero of Another Story
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Wretched Hive
Maybe Ever After
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Air-Vent Passageway
Here We Go Again!
Despair Event Horizon
Vitriolic Best Buds
Red Oni, Blue Oni
Black Dude Dies First
Attempted Rape
Ungrateful Bastard
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Historical Villain Upgrade
Dirty Old Man
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
Male Frontal Nudity
Red Right Hand
Index of Film Westerns
Sadistic Choice
Shown Their Work
Cluster F-Bomb
Loads and Loads of Characters
Guile Hero
Anguished Declaration of Love
Bi the Way
The '90s
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Ms. Fanservice
Smoking Is Cool
Twist Ending
Demonic Possession
Earn Your Happy Ending
How We Got Here
Catapult Nightmare
Ax-Crazy
Accidental Murder
Bond One-Liner
Heel Realization
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Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
The Un-Favourite
aka: The Un Favorite
Blackmail
Re-Cut
Brick Joke
Disproportionate Retribution
Deliberate Values Dissonance
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Sacrificial Lion
Depraved Bisexual
Naked People Are Funny
Does Not Like Shoes
Blood Knight
Put on a Bus
Dark Reprise
Jitter Cam
Brutal Honesty
Kick the Dog
The '70s
Black Comedy
No Name Given
Sealed Evil in a Can
Curse Cut Short
Madness Mantra
Ironic Echo
Heroes Want Redheads
Mugging the Monster
Funny Foreigner
Cassandra Truth
Kill 'em All
Greater-Scope Villain
Cold-Blooded Torture
Martial Arts Movie
Up to Eleven
Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Foreshadowing
Adaptation Distillation
Abusive Parents
Five-Man Band
Race Lift
Offscreen Teleportation
Red Shirt
Children Are Innocent
Getting Crap Past the Radar
Works Set in World War II
Evil vs. Evil
Sinister Minister
Logo Joke
Politically Incorrect Villain
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Line-of-Sight Name
Fantastic Racism
Gender Flip
Eagleland
Department of Redundancy Department
Disguised in Drag
Bloodless Carnage
Unusual Euphemism
Obviously Evil
Everyone Has Standards
Music Stories
Stepford Smiler
Animal Motifs
Heterosexual Life-Partners
Novelization
Japanese Films
Due to the Dead
As You Know
Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Smug Snake
Sole Survivor
An Axe to Grind
Sexy Discretion Shot
Only One Name
Darkest Hour
Hollywood Law
Batman Gambit
Film Noir Index
Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Death by Sex
Card-Carrying Villain
"Awesome McCool" Name
Adaptation Expansion
Green-Eyed Monster
Have a Gay Old Time
Fourth Date Marriage
Kill It with Fire
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Gorn
French Films
Faux Affably Evil
Determinator
Noodle Incident
Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Bittersweet Ending
The Film of the Book
Married to the Job
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Would Hit a Girl
Guns Akimbo
Artistic License History
Gold Digger
Anachronism Stew
Insane Troll Logic
The Stoic
Irony
Random Events Plot
The Chick
Real Life
Wrong Genre Savvy
Cat Fight
Red Herring
Would Hurt a Child
Properly Paranoid
The Brute
Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Bavarian Fire Drill
Laughing Mad
It Will Never Catch On
In Name Only
Anachronic Order
Gilligan Cut
MayDecember Romance
Decoy Protagonist
Evil Laugh
"Well Done, Son!" Guy
Take a Third Option
Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Fat Bastard
Public Domain Feature Films
All for Nothing
Antagonist Title
The Voiceless
Exact Words
Expository Hairstyle Change
Parental Neglect
Badass Bookworm
Evil Is Hammy
Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Serious Business
Kids Are Cruel
Cool Old Guy
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Captain Obvious
In Medias Res
Call-Back
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Mood Whiplash
Token Minority
Pragmatic Adaptation
Dramatic Irony
Reasonable Authority Figure
Too Dumb to Live
Pay Evil unto Evil
Immune to Bullets
Sci-Fi Horror
There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Early Installment Weirdness
All There in the Manual
Dark Action Girl
Posthumous Character
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Together in Death
Award-Bait Song
Does This Remind You of Anything?
Refuge in Audacity
Rated M for Manly
Mundane Made Awesome
Hate Sink
Camera Abuse
Well-Intentioned Extremist
Cat Scare
Aside Glance
No Ending
Trailers Always Spoil
Kick the Son of a Bitch
Those Two Guys
Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
Fantasy Films
The Musical
Science Fiction Films
Victoria's Secret Compartment
Yandere
Retirony
The Alcoholic
I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Slap-Slap-Kiss
Reality Is Unrealistic
Adorkable
The Oner
Rule of Funny
Genre Shift
Funny Background Event
Left the Background Music On
Obfuscating Stupidity
Never Trust a Trailer
aka: Trailers Always Lie
Malevolent Masked Men
BFG
Cloudcuckoolander
Vampire Fiction
Darker and Edgier
Villain with Good Publicity
Artistic License Gun Safety
Totally Radical
Contrived Coincidence
Artistic License Geography
Fingore
Love at First Sight
Recycled IN SPACE!
Eyepatch of Power
Fatal Family Photo
Extremely Short Timespan
Defiant to the End
Insult Backfire
Took a Level in Badass
Deus ex Machina
La Résistance
I'm a Humanitarian
A God Am I
The Casanova
The Ditz
Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Spiteful Spit
Non-Indicative Name
The Power of Love
Outrun the Fireball
Drives Like Crazy
Not So Different
Riddle for the Ages
Gainax Ending
Action Prologue
German Films
Artistic License Military
Amusing Injuries
Bring My Brown Pants
You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
Hollywood Darkness
Friend to All Children
Scary Black Man
Never My Fault
Chekhov's Skill
Heroic BSoD
Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Mr. Exposition
Mad Scientist
Dissonant Serenity
Agony of the Feet
Overly Long Gag
Frame-Up
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience
Disney Villain Death
Not Using the "Z" Word
Small Name, Big Ego
He Who Fights Monsters
Pyrrhic Victory
Wham Line
Danny Peary Cult Movies List
Blatant Lies
Bilingual Bonus
Empathic Environment
Evil Is Petty
Pretty in Mink
B-Movie
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Soundtrack Dissonance
Stealth Pun
Superhero
Word of God
As the Good Book Says...
Film Series
For Want of a Nail
Death by Adaptation
Groin Attack
Adults Are Useless
Paper-Thin Disguise
Authority Equals Asskicking
Made of Iron
Older Than They Look
Flashback
Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Grievous Bottley Harm
Dramedy
Country Matters
Flipping the Bird
Naïve Newcomer
MacGuffin
Rule of Symbolism
The Hero
Those Two Bad Guys
Bland-Name Product
Overprotective Dad
Crapsack World
Not Quite Dead
Sports Stories
Fanservice Extra
Motor Mouth
Protagonist Title
Meaningful Background Event
Beware the Nice Ones
Bad "Bad Acting"
Broken Bird
Match Cut
Suspiciously Specific Denial
She's Got Legs
Shipper on Deck
And I Must Scream
Unresolved Sexual Tension
Reality Has No Subtitles
Auto Erotica
Scenery Gorn
Vomit Discretion Shot
Break the Cutie
Our Vampires Are Different
Cowboy Cop
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Pimped-Out Dress
My Greatest Failure
Arranged Marriage
Covers Always Lie
Monumental Damage
Precision F-Strike
All Just a Dream
Villainous Breakdown
Shout-Out
Badass in a Nice Suit
Ship Tease
Pun
aka: Incredibly Lame Pun
Handicapped Badass
Credits Gag
Mythology Gag
Freudian Excuse
Dull Surprise
Obstructive Bureaucrat
Coming-of-Age Story
Silent Movie
Product Placement
The Reveal
The Ghost
Historical In-Joke
Eureka Moment
Cruel and Unusual Death
Running Gag
Camp Gay
Unreliable Narrator
Peek-a-Boo Corpse
Author Avatar
Dirty Coward
Beard of Evil
Suddenly SHOUTING!
In the Back
Spell My Name with an "S"
Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism
Adaptational Heroism
Bald of Evil
Ambiguous Ending
Bound and Gagged
FaceHeel Turn
Adaptational Badass
Canadian Movies
Jerkass
Mercy Kill
Belligerent Sexual Tension
Neck Lift
Loophole Abuse
Costume Porn
The Faceless
Break the Haughty
Only a Flesh Wound
Film Noir
The Cameo
Corrupt Corporate Executive
Shirtless Scene
Horror Films
Central Theme
Red Eyes, Take Warning
Time Skip
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Deal with the Devil
Alliterative Name
"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Gratuitous English
Domestic Abuse
Moment Killer
Alas, Poor Villain
The Cavalry
Undying Loyalty
Kubrick Stare
Author Appeal
It's All About Me
Parental Substitute
Market-Based Title
Villain Protagonist
The '80s
20 Minutes into the Future
Black Best Friend
Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Daddy's Girl
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
You Killed My Father
No Celebrities Were Harmed
Butt-Monkey
Vacation Films
One-Word Title
Armor-Piercing Question
Tagline
Title Drop
Badass Boast
Revenge
A Minor Kidroduction
Worthy Opponent
Combat Pragmatist
Meet Cute
Knight Templar
Death by Irony
Dumb Blonde
Mighty Whitey
Comically Missing the Point
Never Found the Body
Dual Wielding
Homage
Better to Die than Be Killed
Manipulative Bastard
Retcon
Rewatch Bonus
The Mole
Rousing Speech
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Spanner in the Works
Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Police are Useless
Dirty Cop
Killed Mid-Sentence
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!
The Lancer
Adult Fear
Once More, with Clarity!
Pet the Dog
Actually Pretty Funny
Facial Horror
Deconstruction
Abhorrent Admirer
Show Within a Show
Gone Horribly Right
Horror Comedy
Alpha Bitch
Video Credits
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Translation Convention
Arch-Enemy
The Stinger
Ambiguously Gay
Pretty Little Headshots
Off with His Head!
The Dog Bites Back
And the Adventure Continues
Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Light Is Not Good
A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Woman in White
The Stoner
Meaningful Name
The Alleged Car
Mistaken for Gay
Fate Worse than Death
HeelFace Turn
Narrator
The Quiet One
Informed Ability
The Dragon
My God, What Have I Done?
Every Car Is a Pinto
Based on a True Story
Whole Plot Reference
Dark and Troubled Past
Plucky Comic Relief
Bait-and-Switch
BrotherSister Incest
Death of a Child
Roger Ebert: Great Movies List
Final Girl
Casting Gag
Half the Man He Used to Be
Developing Doomed Characters
The Mafia
Our Zombies Are Different
Even Evil Has Standards
All Girls Want Bad Boys
Bottomless Magazines
Interrupted Suicide
Becoming the Mask
Sequel Hook
Black Comedy Rape
Skewed Priorities
Make It Look Like an Accident
Nothing Is Scarier
Hell Is That Noise
Eldritch Abomination
Mama Bear
Jump Scare
Grey and Gray Morality
Soft Glass
Sanity Slippage
Shower Scene
Composite Character
Evil Counterpart
Rasputinian Death
Four-Temperament Ensemble
Psychological Thriller
Improbable Infant Survival
aka: Infant Immortality
The Great Depression
Your Head A-Splode
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
No OSHA Compliance
Dark Is Not Evil
Evil Sounds Deep
Double-Meaning Title
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Distracted by the Sexy
Eye Scream
Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Needs Wiki Magic Love
Lighter and Softer
From Bad to Worse
Sassy Black Woman
Storming the Castle
Sir Swears-a-Lot
Honor Before Reason
Punny Name
All Men Are Perverts
Jerk Jock
Brainless Beauty
Scenery Porn
The Load