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