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Straight Gay
Evil Laugh
Bloodless Carnage
Establishing Character Moment
Conspicuous CG
Adaptation Expansion
Big Applesauce
Costume Porn
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Broken Pedestal
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Documentary
Refuge in Audacity
The Casanova
Composite Character
The Smurfette Principle
Arranged Marriage
Hidden Depths
Fatal Flaw
Framing Device
Daddy's Girl
Biopic
Be Careful What You Wish For
Together in Death
All for Nothing
N-Word Privileges
Cool Shades
Gratuitous English
Scenery Porn
Babies Ever After
Comically Missing the Point
Cool Car
'80s Hair
Imagine Spot
Reality Is Unrealistic
Pay Evil unto Evil
Shown Their Work
Historical Hero Upgrade
Diabolus ex Machina
Precision F-Strike
Rousing Speech
Jerkass Has a Point
Honor Before Reason
Does Not Like Shoes
Heterosexual Life-Partners
Antagonist Title
Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Crazy Jealous Guy
Toilet Humour
aka: Toilet Humor
Rape as Drama
Badass Normal
Defiant to the End
Smug Snake
Funny Foreigner
Pretty Little Headshots
Italian Films
Peek-a-Boo Corpse
Pet the Dog
The Bad Guy Wins
Back from the Dead
The '70s
Bloody Hilarious
Fanservice Extra
Market-Based Title
Let's Get Dangerous!
Bavarian Fire Drill
Body Horror
Artistic License Law
Five-Man Band
Aluminum Christmas Trees
Suddenly SHOUTING!
From Bad to Worse
Pimped-Out Dress
Eureka Moment
Bottomless Magazines
Informed Ability
Intergenerational Friendship
Adaptation Distillation
Heroic Sacrifice
Armor-Piercing Question
Reasonable Authority Figure
Dual Wielding
Mooks
Black Best Friend
Punch-Clock Villain
Bait-and-Switch
World of Ham
Stuff Blowing Up
Black Dude Dies First
Retcon
Adorkable
Ripped from the Headlines
Nice Hat
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Your Cheating Heart
Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Wham Shot
Not Using the "Z" Word
Shower Scene
Mr. Fanservice
The Hero Dies
Brutal Honesty
What Happened to the Mouse?
Russian Films
Bland-Name Product
Evil vs. Evil
Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Femme Fatale
Maybe Ever After
She's Got Legs
The Cameo
Mood Whiplash
Daylight Horror
Plot Hole
No Antagonist
Fire-Forged Friends
Television Movie Index
He Knows Too Much
Chekhov's Gunman
Cool Guns
Animal Motifs
Needs Wiki Magic Love
BFG
Paper-Thin Disguise
Bilingual Bonus
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Country Matters
Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Fainting
The X of Y
Fatal Family Photo
Badass Boast
Meaningful Name
Arc Words
Groin Attack
Training Montage
Stock Footage
Obfuscating Stupidity
Suspiciously Specific Denial
The Vamp
Military and Warfare Films
Zombie Stories
Anachronic Order
One-Word Title
Pyrrhic Victory
Truth in Television
Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Age Lift
Pragmatic Adaptation
Tap on the Head
Cluster F-Bomb
Took a Level in Jerkass
Curse Cut Short
Setting Update
Catapult Nightmare
And the Adventure Continues
What the Hell, Hero?
O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Real Life Writes the Plot
Determinator
aka: The Determinator
Protagonist Title
Bowdlerise
Riddle for the Ages
Video Credits
As You Know
Evil Brit
Does This Remind You of Anything?
Love Triangle
Accidental Misnaming
Real Life
Dirty Cop
Cowboy Cop
Call-Forward
Slasher Smile
Villain Ball
German Films
The Brute
Vomit Discretion Shot
Broken Aesop
Bullying a Dragon
No Name Given
After the End
Blackmail
All Men Are Perverts
Hate Sink
Parental Abandonment
Tagline
Chekhov's Skill
Psychopathic Manchild
Hell Is That Noise
Dark and Troubled Past
Leitmotif
Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Dropped a Bridge on Him
Trailers Always Spoil
Left the Background Music On
Extremely Short Timespan
Star-Crossed Lovers
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Get Out!
As the Good Book Says...
Chewing the Scenery
Deliberate Values Dissonance
Works Set in World War II
Hair-Trigger Temper
Dirty Coward
Break the Cutie
Foil
Superhero
Madness Mantra
How We Got Here
Drowning My Sorrows
You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
Sole Survivor
Laughing Mad
Eldritch Abomination
Parental Neglect
Here We Go Again!
Faking the Dead
Getting Crap Past the Radar
"Well Done, Son!" Guy
Killed Mid-Sentence
Deadpan Snarker
Fiery Redhead
More Dakka
Bi the Way
For Want of a Nail
Historical-Domain Character
Butt-Monkey
Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Adaptational Heroism
Music Stories
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Asshole Victim
Brick Joke
Animal Title Index
Red Herring
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
Distracted by the Sexy
Evil Is Hammy
Anti-Hero
Overprotective Dad
Easily Forgiven
The Stinger
Air-Vent Passageway
Redemption Equals Death
Too Dumb to Live
Gender Flip
Greater-Scope Villain
Cain and Abel
Genre Savvy
Silence Is Golden
Jerkass
Rewatch Bonus
A God Am I
Big Fancy House
Villainous Breakdown
Eye Scream
Serious Business
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Alpha Bitch
It's All About Me
A Date with Rosie Palms
Big Eater
Expy
Totally Radical
Thriller
Ominous Latin Chanting
MayDecember Romance
Twist Ending
Not So Stoic
Death Seeker
Ass Shove
Stylistic Suck
Random Events Plot
Author Appeal
Death by Sex
MacGuffin
Red Oni, Blue Oni
Action Prologue
Meaningful Background Event
Final Girl
The Lancer
timeperiod
Bald of Evil
Serial Killer
Yandere
Large Ham
Ambiguous Ending
Double Entendre
Film Noir
Shout-Out
"Shaggy Dog" Story
Blatant Lies
Cassandra Truth
Awesome, but Impractical
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!
Closed Circle
Horror Films
Affectionate Parody
Once More, with Clarity!
Corpsing
Time Skip
The Ghost
Fantastic Racism
Batman Gambit
The Load
Kill 'em All
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Bully
Rasputinian Death
Early Installment Weirdness
Artistic License History
I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
As Himself
All There in the Script
Contrived Coincidence
The Sociopath
Black Comedy
Disguised in Drag
Title Drop
The Ditz
Mr. Exposition
Adaptational Attractiveness
Smoking Is Cool
The Film of the Book
Make It Look Like an Accident
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
An Arm and a Leg
Properly Paranoid
Take a Third Option
Betty and Veronica
Cruel and Unusual Death
The Ace
Manly Tears
Hollywood Law
BrotherSister Incest
Show Within a Show
Did Not Get the Girl
Science Fiction Films
Half the Man He Used to Be
Loads and Loads of Characters
Damsel in Distress
Credits Gag
Those Wacky Nazis
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Facial Horror
Author Avatar
Camp Gay
Developing Doomed Characters
Overly Long Gag
No OSHA Compliance
Creepy Child
Unreliable Narrator
Drill Sergeant Nasty
Every Car Is a Pinto
Deal with the Devil
Not So Above It All
The Voiceless
Off with His Head!
Chiaroscuro
Fantasy Films
Mighty Whitey
Accidental Murder
Jerk Jock
Agony of the Feet
Fan Disservice
Heel Realization
Reality Ensues
Rated M for Manly
He Who Fights Monsters
NO INDOOR VOICE
Translation Convention
Amusing Injuries
Foregone Conclusion
The Remake
Boom, Headshot!
British Films
The Mole
Dogged Nice Guy
Bloodier and Gorier
Car Fu
Big-Bad Ensemble
Offscreen Teleportation
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
The Cavalry
Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Never My Fault
Bare Your Midriff
Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Only in It for the Money
Extreme Doormat
Parental Substitute
The Un-Favourite
aka: The Un Favorite
Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Ambiguous Disorder
Homage
The Hero
Chekhov's Gun
Fingore
The Starscream
Lampshade Hanging
Dwindling Party
Really Gets Around
Not Quite Dead
Shirtless Scene
Mercy Kill
Made of Iron
Cool Old Lady
Bury Your Gays
Neck Snap
Karmic Death
Toplessness from the Back
Never Found the Body
Word of God
Motor Mouth
In Name Only
Breaking the Fourth Wall
You Killed My Father
Spared by the Adaptation
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Wretched Hive
Even Evil Has Standards
Dutch Angle
Corrupt Corporate Executive
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Running Gag
The Dog Bites Back
Dramatic Irony
Black Comedy Rape
Bolivian Army Ending
Woman in White
Combat Pragmatist
My God, What Have I Done?
Animated Credits Opening
Insult Backfire
Red Right Hand
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Insistent Terminology
Tempting Fate
Affably Evil
Curb-Stomp Battle
Heroic BSoD
Deliberately Monochrome
Only One Name
Arch-Enemy
My Greatest Failure
Hollywood Darkness
Worthy Opponent
Karma Houdini
Book-Ends
Fish out of Water
Card-Carrying Villain
Death Glare
The Un-Reveal
Hoist by His Own Petard
Spiritual Successor
Attempted Rape
Actually Pretty Funny
Same Language Dub
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
An Aesop
Soft Glass
Determinator
Dirty Old Man
Film Series
Oh, Crap!
Adult Fear
Destination Defenestration
Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Married to the Job
Those Two Bad Guys
Those Two Guys
Unresolved Sexual Tension
Foreshadowing
Narrator
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Plucky Comic Relief
"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Fake Shemp
All Girls Want Bad Boys
Kubrick Stare
The Quiet One
Wicked Cultured
Retirony
Evil Plan
Woman Scorned
Match Cut
Better to Die than Be Killed
Redshirt Army
Would Hurt a Child
Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Index of Film Westerns
Spell My Name with an "S"
Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism
Abusive Parents
Public Domain Feature Films
Scenery Gorn
Vitriolic Best Buds
Nice Guy
Older Than They Look
Psycho for Hire
Improbable Infant Survival
aka: Infant Immortality
Roger Ebert: Great Movies List
Bad "Bad Acting"
Shell-Shocked Veteran
Non-Indicative Name
No Celebrities Were Harmed
Sci-Fi Horror
Lock and Load Montage
Apocalypse How
The Dragon
Rule of Three
Artistic License Gun Safety
Famous Last Words
Logo Joke
Fat Bastard
Blood Knight
And Starring
Defrosting Ice Queen
Expository Hairstyle Change
Big Brother Instinct
Beware the Nice Ones
Berserk Button
Guns Akimbo
All Just a Dream
Loophole Abuse
Self-Deprecation
Man on Fire
Kill It with Fire
Wham Line
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
One-Man Army
Jump Scare
In the Back
Obviously Evil
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Adaptational Villainy
Aside Glance
Action Survivor
Politically Incorrect Villain
Posthumous Character
Race Lift
Line-of-Sight Name
Meaningful Echo
Ship Tease
Guile Hero
Actor Allusion
Punny Name
Enemy Mine
Mind Screw
Villain with Good Publicity
Humans Are Bastards
Adaptation Dye-Job
Rule of Symbolism
The '50s
Put on a Bus
Papa Wolf
In Medias Res
Dark Is Not Evil
Wrong Genre Savvy
Improbable Aiming Skills
Demonic Possession
Re-Cut
Rule of Cool
True Companions
Pun
aka: Incredibly Lame Pun
Cloudcuckoolander
Red Eyes, Take Warning
Mystery and Detective Films
Slap-Slap-Kiss
Race Against the Clock
Canadian Movies
Villain Protagonist
Hypocritical Humor
Never Trust a Trailer
aka: Trailers Always Lie
Crapsack World
Sexy Discretion Shot
Downer Ending
Light Is Not Good
Manchild
The '80s
Artistic License Physics
Only Known by Their Nickname
Dark Action Girl
Badass Bookworm
Dressing as the Enemy
Calling the Old Man Out
Improbable Weapon User
Christmas Movies Index
The Big Guy
Mad Scientist
Chase Scene
Kick the Dog
20 Minutes into the Future
Last-Name Basis
Badass Longcoat
Hope Spot
All There in the Manual
Dies Wide Open
Bring My Brown Pants
Sinister Minister
Fate Worse than Death
Black and Gray Morality
Bar Brawl
B-Movie
Big Bad Duumvirate
It's Personal
Sacrificial Lion
Bad Boss
Ungrateful Bastard
Taking You with Me
Sealed Evil in a Can
Romantic False Lead
Almost Kiss
It Can Think
Cat Fight
Up to Eleven
Psychological Thriller
Men Are the Expendable Gender
Despair Event Horizon
Disney Death
Product Placement
The Musical
Evil-Detecting Dog
Only a Flesh Wound
Scare Chord
Dark Reprise
Mexican Standoff
Creative Closing Credits
An Axe to Grind
Slashed Throat
Poor Communication Kills
The Oner
Leave the Camera Running
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
La Résistance
Scary Black Man
Hero of Another Story
Victoria's Secret Compartment
Mundane Made Awesome
Creator Cameo
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Faux Affably Evil
Award-Bait Song
Unusual Euphemism
My Beloved Smother
Spiteful Spit
Playing Gertrude
Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Hero Antagonist
Reckless Gun Usage
Gold Digger
Face Death with Dignity
Death by Adaptation
Big Damn Heroes
Action Girl
Immune to Bullets
Adults Are Useless
Eiffel Tower Effect
Soundtrack Dissonance
Tranquil Fury
"Awesome McCool" Name
Sports Stories
Anguished Declaration of Love
Made of Explodium
Red Shirt
Important Haircut
Demoted to Extra
Sequel Escalation
Freudian Excuse
Annoying Younger Sibling
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Neck Lift
Outrun the Fireball
Happily Married
Big "NO!"
Hypocrite
Beta Couple
Vomit Indiscretion Shot
I Need a Freaking Drink
Villain Opening Scene
Failed a Spot Check
Manipulative Bastard
Novelization
Heroes Want Redheads
Drives Like Crazy
Evil Is Petty
Badass in a Nice Suit
Mugging the Monster
The Faceless
Brainless Beauty
Depraved Bisexual
The Chessmaster
Anyone Can Die
Department of Redundancy Department
Adaptational Badass
Children Are Innocent
Shut Up, Hannibal!
Anti-Villain
The Power of Love
Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Intrepid Reporter
Implacable Man
Amoral Attorney
Retired Badass
A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Badass Grandpa
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Ax-Crazy
French Films
Earn Your Happy Ending
Laser-Guided Karma
Anachronism Stew
Hong Kong Films
Darkest Hour
The Lost Lenore
Major Injury Underreaction
Catch-Phrase
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Lighter and Softer
Early-Bird Cameo
Cool Old Guy
Moment Killer
Interrupted Suicide
Broken Bird
Only Sane Man
And I Must Scream
Deus ex Machina
Everyone Has Standards
Idiot Ball
Sequel Hook
Your Head A-Splode
Double-Meaning Title
Funny Background Event
Take That!
Ascended Extra
Noodle Incident
Dull Surprise
Irony
Rule of Funny
The Mafia
Vacation Films
I Did What I Had to Do
Frame-Up
Kids Are Cruel
This Is Gonna Suck
Australian Movies
Green-Eyed Monster
Captain Ersatz
Pretty in Mink
Big Bad
Film Noir Index
Instant Death Bullet
No Ending
One Steve Limit
As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
A Minor Kidroduction
The Atoner
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
FaceHeel Turn
Knife Nut
Nothing Is Scarier
Eyepatch of Power
Gilligan Cut
Well-Intentioned Extremist
Gorn
Visual Pun
Exact Words
Morality Pet
Sir Swears-a-Lot
From Nobody to Nightmare
Mistaken for Gay
Throwing Your Sword Always Works
Fourth Date Marriage
Bittersweet Ending
Rich Bitch
Camera Abuse
Dramedy
No-Sell
Call-Back
Say My Name
Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Stalker with a Crush
Humiliation Conga
Break the Haughty
Skewed Priorities
Decoy Protagonist
Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
Central Theme
What You Are in the Dark
Fanservice
Sassy Black Woman
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Martial Arts Movie
Advertised Extra
Disappeared Dad
Gory Discretion Shot
Monumental Damage
Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Genre Shift
I Have Your Wife
Ghost Fiction
Dramatic Gun Cock
War Is Hell
It Will Never Catch On
Flashback
Villain Song
Henpecked Husband
Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Improvised Weapon
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Eagleland
Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
The '90s
Japanese Films
Good Is Not Nice
Adapted Out
Pragmatic Villainy
Death by Irony
Disproportionate Retribution
Empathic Environment
Epic Movie
Freeze-Frame Bonus
Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Great Depression
Artistic License Geography
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Crazy-Prepared
Coming-of-Age Story
The End... Or Is It?
Not So Different
Ambiguously Gay
Took a Level in Badass
Our Zombies Are Different
Off-into-the-Distance Ending
Didn't Think This Through
Horror Comedy
Stepford Smiler
Celebrity Paradox
Dissonant Serenity
The Stoic
Authority Equals Asskicking
Casting Gag
Dying Moment of Awesome
Sanity Slippage
Missing Mom
Recap /
RiffTrax
aka: Riff Trax Movies
Ironic Echo
Gone Horribly Right
The '60s
Taking the Bullet
Historical In-Joke
Covers Always Lie
Domestic Abuse
Reality Has No Subtitles
Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Sadistic Choice
Love at First Sight
Have a Gay Old Time
Friend to All Children
For the Evulz
Flipping the Bird
Mama Bear
Whole Plot Reference
Due to the Dead
Token Minority
Spanner in the Works
Continuity Nod
Our Vampires Are Different
Auto Erotica
Cat Scare
The Alcoholic
Shipper on Deck
The Stoner
Revenge
Evil Sounds Deep
Drugs Are Bad
Slasher Movie
Danny Peary Cult Movies List
Insane Troll Logic
Handicapped Badass
Police Brutality
Police are Useless
Darker and Edgier
Adaptation Name Change
Super Strength
Based on a True Story
Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Chick
Epic Fail
Room Full of Crazy
Naked People Are Funny
Meet Cute
Abhorrent Admirer
Jitter Cam
Crucified Hero Shot
Dumb Blonde
Undying Loyalty
Male Gaze
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Fun with Acronyms
Action Genre
Not What It Looks Like
Artistic License Biology
Gainax Ending
Grey and Gray Morality
I'm a Humanitarian
Storming the Castle
HeelFace Turn
Alas, Poor Villain
Blood from the Mouth
Kick the Son of a Bitch
Knight Templar
Cold-Blooded Torture
Canon Foreigner
She Cleans Up Nicely
Genre Throwback
Recycled IN SPACE!
Romantic Comedy
Bound and Gagged
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Would Hit a Girl
Stealth Pun
The Place
Vampire Fiction
Small Name, Big Ego
Bond Villain Stupidity
Malevolent Masked Men
The Smart Guy
Bond One-Liner
Grievous Bottley Harm
Driven to Suicide
The Alleged Car
Four-Temperament Ensemble
Deconstruction
Death of a Child
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience
Mythology Gag
Disney Villain Death
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
Parental Incest
Silent Movie
Historical Villain Upgrade
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
The Dreaded
Character Development
Captain Obvious
Artistic License Military
Ms. Fanservice
You Have Failed Me
A Father to His Men
Belligerent Sexual Tension
Alliterative Name
Evil Counterpart
Naïve Newcomer
Beard of Evil
Never Trust a Trailer
Becoming the Mask
Male Frontal Nudity
Stealth Hi/Bye
The Reveal