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Is a Crapshoot Parental Neglect Oh, Crap! 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N-Word Privileges Animal Title Index Reality Is Unrealistic All Men Are Perverts Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Decoy Protagonist Chekhov's Gunman Bilingual Bonus Destination Defenestration No Antagonist Improbable Aiming Skills Celebrity Paradox "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue What the Hell, Hero? 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Loads and Loads of Characters Left the Background Music On Adaptation Dye-Job Outrun the Fireball Blood from the Mouth Male Gaze Corpsing Race Against the Clock May–December Romance Amoral Attorney True Companions Never My Fault Imagine Spot Stepford Smiler How We Got Here Obstructive Bureaucrat Bar Brawl Bavarian Fire Drill Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? B-Movie Greater-Scope Villain Bound and Gagged Crapsack World Fire-Forged Friends The Dog Bites Back Adaptation Distillation Malevolent Masked Men Badass in a Nice Suit Contrived Coincidence Plucky Comic Relief Flashback Big Bad Training Montage Too Dumb to Live No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Guile Hero Kill 'em All The Ditz Brainless Beauty Cool Shades All Girls Want Bad Boys Moment Killer Suddenly SHOUTING! Canon Foreigner Big-Bad Ensemble It's All About Me Bare Your Midriff Crazy-Prepared Disappeared Dad Character Development Good Is Not Nice Star-Crossed Lovers Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Genre Throwback Four-Temperament Ensemble Smoking Is Cool Ax-Crazy Historical Villain Upgrade An Axe to Grind Demonic Possession Laughing Mad Russian Films An Aesop Evil Laugh Everyone Has Standards Scenery Gorn Drugs Are Bad Accidental Murder Cat Fight Actually Pretty Funny Eye Scream Shell-Shocked Veteran Shown Their Work Ripped from the Headlines