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