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