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You Killed My Father
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The Power of Love
And the Adventure Continues
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Take That!
Fish out of Water
Overprotective Dad
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Honor Before Reason
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Evil Is Hammy
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
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Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
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What the Hell, Hero?
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All Just a Dream
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I Need a Freaking Drink
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog
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Would Hit a Girl
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Asshole Victim
Really Gets Around
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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What You Are in the Dark
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Homage
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Let's Get Dangerous!
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Throwing Your Sword Always Works
The Place
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The '50s
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Nice Guy
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Pet the Dog
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From Bad to Worse
Award-Bait Song
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Worthy Opponent
Truth in Television
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Red Eyes, Take Warning
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Oh, Crap!
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Match Cut
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Soft Glass
Reality Is Unrealistic
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After the End
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No Antagonist
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This Is Gonna Suck
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Tap on the Head
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Better to Die than Be Killed
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Outrun the Fireball
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Fingore
The Load
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For Want of a Nail
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Pay Evil unto Evil
Never Trust a Trailer
Agony of the Feet
You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
Cat Scare
Parental Neglect
Brainless Beauty
Happily Married
Arch-Enemy
Anachronic Order
Green-Eyed Monster
Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Same Language Dub
Soundtrack Dissonance
Dramedy
The '90s
Epic Movie
Creative Closing Credits
Downer Ending
Adaptational Attractiveness
Evil Is Petty
Slasher Smile
Take a Third Option
Gone Horribly Right
Kids Are Cruel
Monumental Damage
Ship Tease
Evil Laugh
Love Triangle
Video Credits
I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Costume Porn
True Companions
Rule of Cool
Good Is Not Nice
Foil
All There in the Manual
Off with His Head!
The Lost Lenore
Pragmatic Villainy
Precision F-Strike
The Vamp
Ambiguously Gay
Disney Villain Death
Air-Vent Passageway
Chiaroscuro
Defiant to the End
The Dog Bites Back
Our Zombies Are Different
Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Evil Counterpart
Disproportionate Retribution
Affectionate Parody
Plot Hole
Age Lift
British Films
Jump Scare
Spiritual Successor
All There in the Script
Artistic License Law
The Un-Favourite
aka: The Un Favorite
Rule of Three
Dogged Nice Guy
Sequel Hook
Calling the Old Man Out
Lock and Load Montage
Red Oni, Blue Oni
Super Strength
Red Shirt
Skewed Priorities
Abusive Parents
Drowning My Sorrows
Five-Man Band
Gold Digger
Biopic
Retcon
My God, What Have I Done?
Badass Longcoat
Plucky Comic Relief
A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Camera Abuse
I'm a Humanitarian
Character Development
Parental Incest
Pyrrhic Victory
Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Put on a Bus
Would Hurt a Child
Adaptation Name Change
Central Theme
Insult Backfire
'80s Hair
Becoming the Mask
Recycled IN SPACE!
Domestic Abuse
Man on Fire
Animal Motifs
Diabolus ex Machina
Daddy's Girl
Instant Death Bullet
World of Ham
Camp Gay
Kill 'em All
Expository Hairstyle Change
Novelization
It Will Never Catch On
Ass Shove
Defrosting Ice Queen
Anti-Villain
Improbable Aiming Skills
Ripped from the Headlines
Ambiguous Ending
Didn't Think This Through
Maybe Ever After
Combat Pragmatist
Shout-Out
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
Alas, Poor Villain
Blatant Lies
Children Are Innocent
Bald of Evil
Scary Black Man
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Tagline
Silence Is Golden
The Dreaded
Everyone Has Standards
Black Best Friend
Self-Deprecation
He Knows Too Much
The Quiet One
Taking You with Me
Not So Above It All
Blackmail
Broken Bird
Dressing as the Enemy
Reality Ensues
Nice Hat
Blood Knight
Pun
aka: Incredibly Lame Pun
Mugging the Monster
Actor Allusion
Retired Badass
One-Man Army