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Bowdlerise Sci-Fi Horror What You Are in the Dark Psychopathic Manchild Parental Neglect Vomit Indiscretion Shot Didn't Think This Through Match Cut Boom, Headshot! Taking You with Me Actor Allusion Large Ham Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Properly Paranoid Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Early-Bird Cameo Oh, Crap! Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Gainax Ending Rule of Cool Curse Cut Short Good Is Not Nice Dying Moment of Awesome The Cameo Handicapped Badass Dogged Nice Guy Guns Akimbo Fate Worse than Death Half the Man He Used to Be Silent Movie Red Oni, Blue Oni Coming-of-Age Story Shoot the Shaggy Dog Not Quite Dead Dressing as the Enemy Deliberately Monochrome "Awesome McCool" Name Epic Movie Accidental Murder Danny Peary Cult Movies List Dual Wielding Evil Counterpart The Musical Disproportionate Retribution Plucky Comic Relief The X of Y Punch-Clock Villain Male Frontal Nudity Running Gag Adaptational Badass The Bully O.O.C. 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