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