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