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Is a Crapshoot Cold-Blooded Torture Stepford Smiler O.O.C. Is Serious Business The '90s '80s Hair Those Two Guys Adults Are Useless Comically Missing the Point Good Is Not Nice Say My Name Funny Foreigner Sassy Black Woman Deliberate Values Dissonance Gender Flip Slashed Throat Ms. Fanservice Random Events Plot Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Brick Joke Big Damn Heroes Made of Explodium Retirony Improbable Weapon User Sequel Escalation Adaptational Villainy Exactly What It Says on the Tin Cain and Abel Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Dropped a Bridge on Him Offscreen Moment of Awesome Kick the Son of a Bitch Beta Couple Annoying Younger Sibling Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Heroic Sacrifice Dissonant Serenity Not So Different Shell-Shocked Veteran Grievous Bottley Harm The Alcoholic Catapult Nightmare Not Using the "Z" Word Slasher Smile Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Fate Worse than Death Asshole Victim Vomit Indiscretion Shot Henpecked Husband Manly Tears Police Brutality Storming the Castle Light Is Not Good Knife Nut Meaningful Echo Genre Throwback Deconstruction All Men Are Perverts Beware the Nice Ones Big Fancy House Straight Gay Love at First Sight Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Re-Cut How We Got Here Freudian Excuse An Axe to Grind Femme Fatale The Lost Lenore Double Entendre Really Gets Around Intrepid Reporter The Hero I Have Your Wife Berserk Button Precision F-Strike Death Glare Honor Before Reason Documentary Adaptation Expansion Abhorrent Admirer In the Back Action Genre The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Big Eater Action Girl Happily Married The Starscream La Résistance Evil Plan Camp Gay Hero Antagonist Everyone Has Standards Fatal Flaw Scary Black Man Catch-Phrase I Need a Freaking Drink You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Romantic False Lead Wham Line From Bad to Worse Cluster F-Bomb Ascended Extra Public Domain Feature Films Worthy Opponent Mr. Fanservice Wretched Hive Empathic Environment Costume Porn Reality Has No Subtitles Time Skip Truth in Television Film Noir Index The Great Depression Affably Evil