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Bond Villain Stupidity Jitter Cam Bowdlerise Eureka Moment Idiot Ball Sports Stories Ship Tease Red Right Hand The Casanova Shoot the Shaggy Dog The Mafia Sole Survivor Arc Words Exact Words Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality She Cleans Up Nicely Bond One-Liner There Is No Kill Like Overkill Laser-Guided Karma Missing Mom Overprotective Dad Fatal Flaw Whole Plot Reference Sacrificial Lion No Antagonist The '80s Animal Title Index Stalker with a Crush Artistic License – Military Earn Your Happy Ending Improbable Weapon User Twist Ending Line-of-Sight Name The Faceless Dark Action Girl Running Gag Evil Brit Morality Pet Better to Die than Be Killed Developing Doomed Characters Humiliation Conga Parental Substitute Credits Gag Evil Plan Interrupted Suicide Slasher Movie Big "NO!" 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Or Is It? Moment Killer Gone Horribly Right Affectionate Parody Card-Carrying Villain Big-Bad Ensemble Adaptation Expansion Scare Chord Hope Spot Agony of the Feet Novelization Victoria's Secret Compartment Product Placement Pay Evil unto Evil Epic Movie Amusing Injuries Word of God Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? NO INDOOR VOICE Re-Cut Anti-Villain Every Car Is a Pinto Composite Character Ambiguous Disorder Australian Movies Neck Lift Green-Eyed Monster Scenery Gorn Guile Hero Chewing the Scenery Spared by the Adaptation The Hero Offscreen Teleportation The Atoner Have a Gay Old Time Alpha Bitch Gender Flip Red Eyes, Take Warning Outrun the Fireball Actor Allusion Eye Scream Same Language Dub Cat Fight Ascended Extra Mercy Kill Man on Fire Loads and Loads of Characters Parental Neglect Bar Brawl Cool Car No Ending The Musical Captain Obvious Canon Foreigner May–December Romance Ms. Fanservice Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Real Life Writes the Plot Dark Is Not Evil Hollywood Darkness Mr. Fanservice Stock Footage Manic Pixie Dream Girl Bullying a Dragon Smoking Is Cool Amoral Attorney Mind Screw Cold-Blooded Torture Betty and Veronica Rated M for Manly Race Against the Clock Obviously Evil Grievous Bottley Harm Determinator aka: The Determinator Didn't Think This Through Dual Wielding Sexy Discretion Shot Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping The Mole Contrived Coincidence Show Within a Show Lock and Load Montage The X of Y Small Name, Big Ego Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Bloodless Carnage Closed Circle Anyone Can Die All Girls Want Bad Boys Armor-Piercing Question Big Damn Heroes Brutal Honesty Off-into-the-Distance Ending Mundane Made Awesome Intergenerational Friendship Brother–Sister Incest Sinister Minister The Quiet One After the End Disney Villain Death Villain Protagonist Chiaroscuro Ambiguous Ending Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Fish out of Water No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Fainting Sadistic Choice Overly Long Gag Vomit Indiscretion Shot It's Personal Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Red Shirt Alas, Poor Villain Be Careful What You Wish For Mighty Whitey Dark and Troubled Past Good Is Not Nice The Stinger Soundtrack Dissonance Arranged Marriage No-Sell The Dreaded Death by Sex Aside Glance "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Pre-Asskicking One-Liner All Just a Dream Chekhov's Gunman Big Applesauce No Celebrities Were Harmed Bi the Way Very Loosely Based on a True Story Soft Glass Protagonist Title Our Zombies Are Different My Beloved Smother Stealth Hi/Bye Neck Snap Stepford Smiler Say My Name Training Montage Easily Forgiven Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Dark Reprise N-Word Privileges Spiritual Successor Author Appeal Annoying Younger Sibling Abusive Parents Crazy Jealous Guy Narrator Vomit Discretion Shot The Remake Dying Moment of Awesome Asshole Victim Manly Tears Mythology Gag She's Got Legs Rousing Speech Russian Films Dies Wide Open Take That! 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For! Emphasis! Sassy Black Woman Brainless Beauty As Long as It Sounds Foreign Eagleland Bad Boss Storming the Castle Domestic Abuse He Who Fights Monsters Yandere Properly Paranoid Vacation Films Film Series Daddy's Girl Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Thriller Police Brutality Kubrick Stare The Starscream Decoy Protagonist Artistic License – Law Gilligan Cut The Cavalry German Films Advertised Extra And the Adventure Continues Tempting Fate Even Evil Has Standards An Axe to Grind Belligerent Sexual Tension Punch-Clock Villain Meet Cute Blatant Lies Plot Hole Award-Bait Song Alliterative Name Take a Third Option Chekhov's Skill Breaking the Fourth Wall Knife Nut All Men Are Perverts Parental Abandonment Curb-Stomp Battle '80s Hair Did Not Get the Girl Irony Exactly What It Says on the Tin Adaptational Badass Only a Flesh Wound 20 Minutes into the Future Greater-Scope Villain Offscreen Moment of Awesome Hair-Trigger Temper Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Your Cheating Heart Affably Evil Beta Couple A God Am I Berserk Button Aluminum Christmas Trees Fake Shemp Drives Like Crazy Badass Bookworm Face Death with Dignity Dirty Old Man Stealth Pun Light Is Not Good Self-Deprecation Hoist by His Own Petard Empathic Environment Death by Adaptation He Knows Too Much The Cameo Noodle Incident Names to Run Away from Really Fast Freudian Excuse Shipper on Deck In Medias Res Fire-Forged Friends You Killed My Father Lampshade Hanging Fantastic Racism Ax-Crazy Failed a Spot Check Fingore Fiery Redhead Death by Irony French Films Artistic License – Biology Spiteful Spit Dirty Cop Woman Scorned Extreme Doormat "Well Done, Son!" Guy Covers Always Lie Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience BFG Happily Married Honor Before Reason Tagline I Did What I Had to Do Becoming the Mask Abhorrent Admirer Anti-Hero Taking the Bullet Broken Pedestal Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Expository Hairstyle Change Ghost Fiction Celebrity Paradox I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Love Triangle Does Not Like Shoes Nothing Is Scarier Deliberate Values Dissonance Oh, Crap! Suspiciously Specific Denial Action Girl Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Playing Gertrude Index of Film Westerns Kick the Dog Jump Scare Bolivian Army Ending Made of Explodium The Stoner Evil Laugh Not So Stoic Mistaken for Gay Casting Gag Laughing Mad You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Meaningful Name Public Domain Feature Films Bavarian Fire Drill Rule of Three Rape as Drama Ambiguously Gay Married to the Job Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Demonic Possession Early Installment Weirdness Worthy Opponent Really Gets Around Random Events Plot Wretched Hive The Ditz Super Strength Beauty Is Never Tarnished Hypocritical Humor Department of Redundancy Department Heterosexual Life-Partners Retired Badass Roaring Rampage of Revenge Big Brother Instinct Badass Normal Unresolved Sexual Tension Does This Remind You of Anything? Disguised in Drag Only Sane Man Bald of Evil Wicked Cultured Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Ominous Latin Chanting Smug Snake Evil Sounds Deep It Will Never Catch On Let's Get Dangerous! Bare Your Midriff Broken Aesop Curse Cut Short Big Bad Duumvirate Would Hit a Girl Those Wacky Nazis Four-Temperament Ensemble As the Good Book Says... Redshirt Army I Need a Freaking Drink Disappeared Dad Shell-Shocked Veteran Freeze-Frame Bonus Damsel in Distress Eiffel Tower Effect Riddle for the Ages Malevolent Masked Men Imagine Spot Unusual Euphemism Leave the Camera Running Heroes Want Redheads Italian Films Hooker with a Heart of Gold Adaptational Heroism Cassandra Truth Mood Whiplash Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Awesome, but Impractical Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Insistent Terminology Evil vs. Evil The '90s Continuity Nod Shirtless Scene Cool Shades Character Development Silence Is Golden Older Than They Look Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Never Found the Body Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Darkest Hour True Companions Those Two Bad Guys Pretty Little Headshots The Bad Guy Wins Insult Backfire Adaptation Name Change Bring My Brown Pants Badass Boast For Want of a Nail Adaptational Villainy Men Are the Expendable Gender Bilingual Bonus Dutch Angle O.O.C. Is Serious Business Setting Update Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Time Skip Intrepid Reporter And I Must Scream The Smart Guy Retcon Horror Films Femme Fatale Suspiciously Similar Substitute And Starring Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Christmas Movies Index Double Entendre Coming-of-Age Story Cat Scare Adaptational Attractiveness Not Quite Dead Fantasy Films All There in the Manual Hidden Depths All for Nothing Fatal Family Photo Handicapped Badass Artistic License – Physics Science Fiction Films Evil-Detecting Dog Slap-Slap-Kiss Scary Black Man Naked People Are Funny Film Noir Index Woman in White As Himself It Can Think