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The '80s Getting Crap Past the Radar Sinister Minister Amusing Injuries Adaptation Name Change Butt-Monkey Badass Grandpa Big-Bad Ensemble Catch-Phrase Betty and Veronica Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Sequel Escalation Retired Badass Reality Is Unrealistic Motor Mouth Redshirt Army Artistic License – Biology Nothing Is Scarier Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Anti-Hero Humiliation Conga Death of a Child Grievous Bottley Harm The Alleged Car Mind Screw My God, What Have I Done? Knife Nut Brutal Honesty Deadpan Snarker The Place No-Sell Based on a True Story Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Affably Evil Dark and Troubled Past Instant Death Bullet Cain and Abel I Have Your Wife Karma Houdini Four-Temperament Ensemble Wounded Gazelle Gambit The X of Y Sexy Discretion Shot Air-Vent Passageway What Happened to the Mouse? Wrong Genre Savvy Lock and Load Montage Rape as Drama Back from the Dead Oh, Crap! 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Black Comedy Bland-Name Product Shoot the Shaggy Dog Deliberate Values Dissonance Gold Digger Dropped a Bridge on Him Facial Horror Truth in Television Film Noir Reality Has No Subtitles Psycho for Hire Arc Words One Steve Limit Even Evil Has Standards Translation Convention Distracted by the Sexy Adorkable Tempting Fate German Films Super Strength Adaptational Attractiveness True Companions Smoking Is Cool And I Must Scream Love at First Sight Black Dude Dies First Running Gag Hair-Trigger Temper Jitter Cam The Un-Reveal Insistent Terminology Dissonant Serenity Animal Motifs Mistaken for Gay Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The Casanova Alliterative Name Deliberately Monochrome Not So Above It All Mood Whiplash Maybe Ever After Suspiciously Similar Substitute Kubrick Stare All Men Are Perverts The Reveal Bad "Bad Acting" Unspoken Plan Guarantee All for Nothing Accidental Misnaming Madness Mantra Cool Shades Adult Fear Happily Married Russian Films Rule of Funny Romantic False Lead Villain with Good Publicity The Dragon The Starscream Shower Scene Psychological Thriller Big Fancy House Pre-Mortem One-Liner Animal Title Index After the End Affectionate Parody Dirty Coward Offscreen Teleportation Kick the Dog Didn't Think This Through Stuff Blowing Up Properly Paranoid One-Man Army Stepford Smiler Sealed Evil in a Can Department of Redundancy Department Gone Horribly Right Totally Radical Car Fu Canon Foreigner Femme Fatale Reasonable Authority Figure Overprotective Dad Expository Hairstyle Change Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Self-Deprecation Training Montage An Axe to Grind Destination Defenestration Morality Pet Dies Wide Open Deus ex Machina Australian Movies Adults Are Useless In the Back Parental Substitute Blackmail Depraved Bisexual Mundane Made Awesome Those Two Bad Guys Big Eater Asshole Victim Foreshadowing Kill 'em All World of Ham Enemy Mine It's All About Me Combat Pragmatist Let's Get Dangerous! As You Know Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Match Cut The Lancer Broken Pedestal Mooks Rasputinian Death Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Fat Bastard Honor Before Reason Defiant to the End Recycled IN SPACE! Mexican Standoff Bait-and-Switch Spiteful Spit Black Comedy Rape Toplessness from the Back Mr. Fanservice Death by Sex Spiritual Successor Man on Fire She Cleans Up Nicely Early Installment Weirdness Fingore As the Good Book Says... 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Armor-Piercing Question Laser-Guided Karma I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Every Car Is a Pinto Manipulative Bastard Even Evil Has Loved Ones Wicked Cultured Cowboy Cop The Brute Red Shirt Romantic Comedy She's Got Legs Vomit Indiscretion Shot Ms. Fanservice Time Skip Drowning My Sorrows No OSHA Compliance Dressing as the Enemy Rewatch Bonus Reckless Gun Usage The Bully Continuity Nod Everyone Has Standards Roaring Rampage of Revenge Bowdlerise 20 Minutes into the Future Damsel in Distress Film Noir Index Whole Plot Reference Fatal Flaw Bloodier and Gorier Big Bad Unusually Uninteresting Sight Evil Counterpart The Stinger Funny Foreigner Soft Glass Pyrrhic Victory Eye Scream MacGuffin Action Survivor Your Cheating Heart Obstructive Bureaucrat The Great Depression Historical-Domain Character The '60s Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Freudian Excuse Bottomless Magazines Ambiguous Ending Artistic License – Law Domestic Abuse Woman in White Once More, with Clarity! Title Drop Sassy Black Woman Artistic License – Physics Large Ham Dirty Old Man Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Loophole Abuse Rule of Symbolism Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Video Credits Annoying Younger Sibling Gorn Riddle for the Ages Epic Fail You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Worthy Opponent Slashed Throat Re-Cut A God Am I Foil How We Got Here Punch-Clock Villain Hero Antagonist Earn Your Happy Ending Bad Boss You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Jerk Jock Bald of Evil He Who Fights Monsters Fish out of Water Hypocritical Humor Up to Eleven Central Theme Cat Fight He Knows Too Much Henpecked Husband Boom, Headshot! Martial Arts Movie Serious Business It Will Never Catch On Sequel Hook Dumb Blonde Fake Shemp Chekhov's Gun Line-of-Sight Name Villain Ball Malevolent Masked Men Badass Boast The Atoner And Starring Adaptation Distillation Here We Go Again! Posthumous Character Slasher Movie Stylistic Suck Evil Plan Never Trust a Trailer Word of God Manchild Double-Meaning Title Race Lift Rich Bitch Spanner in the Works The '70s Badass Longcoat Ass Shove Off with His Head! Demoted to Extra Almost Kiss Mugging the Monster Adaptational Heroism Those Wacky Nazis Film Series Humans Are Bastards Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Horror Comedy Face Death with Dignity Dogged Nice Guy Unusual Euphemism In Medias Res Casting Gag Men Are the Expendable Gender Evil Is Petty The Ditz Star-Crossed Lovers Crazy Jealous Guy Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Exact Words Room Full of Crazy A Minor Kidroduction Not Quite Dead Expy Index of Film Westerns Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Breaking the Fourth Wall Dark Action Girl Police Brutality It's Personal Took a Level in Jerkass Japanese Films Anguished Declaration of Love Shell-Shocked Veteran Improbable Weapon User Skewed Priorities Vitriolic Best Buds Big Bad Duumvirate Amoral Attorney Older Than They Look Historical In-Joke Visual Pun Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Villainous Breakdown Gory Discretion Shot Fanservice All There in the Script Daylight Horror "The Reason You Suck" Speech Contrived Coincidence Missing Mom Five-Man Band Funny Background Event