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They Really Do Love Each Other Deadpan Snarker Accidental Misnaming Body Horror In Name Only Killed Mid-Sentence Parental Substitute Kick the Dog Bait-and-Switch Ass Shove Sacrificial Lion Dirty Cop Narrator A Minor Kidroduction The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Ambiguously Gay Unresolved Sexual Tension Humiliation Conga The Place Enemy Mine Cloudcuckoolander Well-Intentioned Extremist Moment Killer The Film of the Book Spiritual Successor Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Bottomless Magazines Daddy's Girl Ominous Latin Chanting Hair-Trigger Temper Black Comedy Black Best Friend Badass Bookworm Intrepid Reporter Beard of Evil Silent Movie Not Even Bothering with the Accent The Sociopath Slashed Throat Sexy Discretion Shot Determinator aka: The Determinator The Faceless Accidental Murder Serious Business Hell Is That Noise Nice Guy Frame-Up What Happened to the Mouse? 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The Ghost Anguished Declaration of Love Word of God Foreshadowing Light Is Not Good Villain with Good Publicity Drugs Are Bad Genre Throwback Chekhov's Gunman Retcon Disguised in Drag Training Montage Not So Different Fate Worse than Death Good Is Not Nice Defrosting Ice Queen Tranquil Fury Irony Twist Ending Re-Cut Dissonant Serenity Bare Your Midriff Reckless Gun Usage Unusually Uninteresting Sight Public Domain Feature Films Older Than They Look Cluster F-Bomb Informed Ability Adults Are Useless Crazy-Prepared Alas, Poor Villain Due to the Dead Recycled IN SPACE! 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Is Serious Business Woman Scorned Eiffel Tower Effect Reality Ensues Death by Sex Made of Iron Heroic Sacrifice Artistic License – Law Celebrity Paradox Took a Level in Jerkass Mundane Made Awesome Adaptational Heroism Groin Attack Fun with Acronyms The Chick Motor Mouth Man on Fire Hong Kong Films Poor Communication Kills Biopic Bound and Gagged Death by Irony Leaning on the Fourth Wall Dirty Coward Authority Equals Asskicking Toplessness from the Back The Brute Mr. Exposition Action Genre Closed Circle Broken Pedestal Cruel and Unusual Death Getting Crap Past the Radar Beauty Is Never Tarnished Room Full of Crazy Film Series Four-Temperament Ensemble Children Are Innocent Precision F-Strike Bland-Name Product Police Brutality I Did What I Had to Do Silence Is Golden Breaking the Fourth Wall Obviously Evil Skewed Priorities Awesome, but Impractical Science Fiction Films Only in It for the Money British Films Bring My Brown Pants Pragmatic Adaptation Bullying a Dragon And Starring Action Prologue Blood from the Mouth Epic Fail Take That! Big Eater Fantasy Films Ascended Extra Big Applesauce Badass Normal Creator Cameo Australian Movies Heterosexual Life-Partners Same Language Dub Our Vampires Are Different And I Must Scream Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Needs Wiki Magic Love Retirony Sci-Fi Horror Ms. Fanservice All Men Are Perverts Smoking Is Cool You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! NO INDOOR VOICE Eldritch Abomination Psychopathic Manchild Big Damn Heroes Scary Black Man Hope Spot Let's Get Dangerous! Framing Device Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Funny Foreigner '80s Hair I Want My Beloved to Be Happy All There in the Script Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Batman Gambit Vacation Films Historical Hero Upgrade Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Scenery Porn Advertised Extra After the End Riddle for the Ages Naïve Newcomer Fake Shemp Easily Forgiven Those Two Guys Heel Realization "Awesome McCool" Name Reasonable Authority Figure Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Real Life Bar Brawl Artistic License – Physics Brother–Sister Incest Instant Death Bullet Rule of Symbolism Mighty Whitey Interrupted Suicide She's Got Legs Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies No-Sell "The Reason You Suck" Speech May–December Romance The Remake It Will Never Catch On Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Retired Badass Cool Old Guy Never Found the Body Not What It Looks Like Posthumous Character Malevolent Masked Men 20 Minutes into the Future Improbable Weapon User Greater-Scope Villain Hypocritical Humor Darker and Edgier Cat Scare Tagline Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Mr. Fanservice For the Evulz Made of Explodium Psychological Thriller Manly Tears Gratuitous English Domestic Abuse Stealth Hi/Bye Love at First Sight The Smurfette Principle Say My Name Early-Bird Cameo "Well Done, Son!" 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Is a Crapshoot No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Neck Lift Deliberate Values Dissonance Covers Always Lie Dark Reprise As Long as It Sounds Foreign Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Dramatic Gun Cock Extreme Doormat Freeze-Frame Bonus Fiery Redhead Daylight Horror The '70s Shirtless Scene Large Ham Improvised Weapon Driven to Suicide Offscreen Teleportation The Load The Stinger Cool Guns Animated Credits Opening Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Arch-Enemy The Mafia Loophole Abuse Dropped a Bridge on Him Artistic License – Geography Slasher Smile From Bad to Worse Improbable Aiming Skills Russian Films Dark and Troubled Past Bond Villain Stupidity Ironic Echo Henpecked Husband Foregone Conclusion Bolivian Army Ending Camp Gay Antagonist Title Department of Redundancy Department Mistaken for Gay Adaptation Name Change Sassy Black Woman As the Good Book Says... Every Car Is a Pinto Lampshade Hanging Kill It with Fire Woman in White You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Action Survivor Not Quite Dead The Alcoholic The Dog Bites Back Men Are the Expendable Gender Super Strength Curse Cut Short Car Fu Half the Man He Used to Be Funny Background Event Token Minority Even Evil Has Loved Ones One Steve Limit Face Death with Dignity Product Placement The Bully Character Development Noodle Incident Artistic License – Military Show Within a Show Male Gaze Author Avatar Exact Words Reality Has No Subtitles Comically Missing the Point Actor Allusion Taking the Bullet Beware the Nice Ones Flipping the Bird B-Movie Betty and Veronica Evil Sounds Deep Taking You with Me Rich Bitch "Shaggy Dog" Story There Is No Kill Like Overkill Blood Knight Would Hurt a Child Did Not Get the Girl Danny Peary Cult Movies List Pre-Mortem One-Liner BFG Amoral Attorney Tempting Fate Hoist by His Own Petard All There in the Manual