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Epilogue Deal with the Devil For Want of a Nail Destination Defenestration No Celebrities Were Harmed Better to Die than Be Killed Fourth Date Marriage Spell My Name with an "S" Ascended Extra Never Found the Body The Ace Break the Cutie Mundane Made Awesome Didn't Think This Through And Starring Handicapped Badass No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Anachronic Order One-Word Title Aluminum Christmas Trees From Bad to Worse Tempting Fate Unspoken Plan Guarantee Funny Background Event Really Gets Around Babies Ever After Rich Bitch Men Are the Expendable Gender Bottomless Magazines The Starscream I'm a Humanitarian Grievous Bottley Harm Fanservice Extra Made of Explodium Animated Credits Opening Biopic Disappeared Dad The Power of Love Card-Carrying Villain Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Mythology Gag Costume Porn Truth in Television The '60s Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Hair-Trigger Temper Historical Villain Upgrade Poor Communication Kills Our Zombies Are Different Logo Joke Paper-Thin Disguise Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Kill It with Fire Police Brutality Armor-Piercing Question Badass Bookworm Adaptation Name Change Disney Death Gender Flip Country Matters Fantasy Films Hypocrite Our Vampires Are Different Determinator aka: The Determinator Laser-Guided Karma Cowboy Cop Attempted Rape Happily Married Death Glare Gratuitous English Adults Are Useless Ax-Crazy Disguised in Drag The Vamp Vomit Indiscretion Shot Arranged Marriage Fate Worse than Death Conspicuous CG Shout-Out Guile Hero "Awesome McCool" Name Big Fancy House Intrepid Reporter Bloody Hilarious Pragmatic Adaptation No-Sell Hate Sink Cool Old Guy Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Hong Kong Films Irony Token Minority Danny Peary Cult Movies List Facial Horror Riddle for the Ages A Father to His Men Foregone Conclusion Big Damn Heroes Sci-Fi Horror Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Does Not Like Shoes Ripped from the Headlines Badass Longcoat Noodle Incident Roaring Rampage of Revenge Face–Heel Turn The Place Badass Boast Easily Forgiven Not Using the "Z" Word Sequel Escalation Animal Title Index Ms. Fanservice Extremely Short Timespan Overly Long Gag Hollywood Law Darker and Edgier Real Life Writes the Plot Older Than They Look The Dog Bites Back Beard of Evil Fantastic Racism Leaning on the Fourth Wall Implacable Man The '90s Death by Sex No Ending Dogged Nice Guy Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Reasonable Authority Figure Wicked Cultured Properly Paranoid Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Overprotective Dad Needs Wiki Magic Love Pretty Little Headshots Fish out of Water Take That! The Mafia Only a Flesh Wound The Ditz Evil Plan Left the Background Music On Male Gaze NO INDOOR VOICE Non-Indicative Name Green-Eyed Monster Romantic False Lead The Atoner Protagonist Title Important Haircut Chekhov's Gunman Morality Pet Christmas Movies Index Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Not Even Bothering with the Accent Cloudcuckoolander Establishing Character Moment Artistic License – History Match Cut Driven to Suicide Laughing Mad Shipper on Deck Adult Fear Offscreen Moment of Awesome Sequel Hook Mama Bear Horror Comedy Fat Bastard Parental Incest Dramatic Irony Title Drop Refuge in Audacity Anti-Hero Freudian Excuse Composite Character All Just a Dream Only Sane Man Sole Survivor Big Eater Ungrateful Bastard Cain and Abel Dark Reprise "Well Done, Son!" Guy Eureka Moment Heroic BSoD Annoying Younger Sibling True Companions Wounded Gazelle Gambit Sealed Evil in a Can Redshirt Army A Date with Rosie Palms Awesome, but Impractical She's Got Legs Accidental Misnaming Wham Line Bilingual Bonus Wretched Hive Big "NO!" Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Documentary Married to the Job Action Girl Authority Equals Asskicking Villain Song Beauty Is Never Tarnished Evil Laugh Ass Shove Love at First Sight Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Fun with Acronyms What Happened to the Mouse? Running Gag Downer Ending Death of a Child Pretty in Mink War Is Hell My God, What Have I Done? Slap-Slap-Kiss Up to Eleven Everyone Has Standards British Films Heroes Want Redheads Not Quite Dead Ambiguously Gay The End... Or Is It? Nice Hat No-Holds-Barred Beatdown The Casanova What the Hell, Hero? 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Even Evil Has Standards Demoted to Extra Make It Look Like an Accident Psychopathic Manchild Straight Gay Author Avatar Parental Neglect Alliterative Name Bullying a Dragon Captain Ersatz Bi the Way Science Fiction Films Evil Counterpart Storming the Castle Dissonant Serenity Rated M for Manly Groin Attack Cruel and Unusual Death Gone Horribly Right The Lost Lenore Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Would Hurt a Child Race Lift Four-Temperament Ensemble This Is Gonna Suck Anyone Can Die Setting Update Dirty Coward Face Death with Dignity Asshole Victim Corrupt Corporate Executive Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Martial Arts Movie Antagonist Title Badass Normal Index of Film Westerns Drill Sergeant Nasty Redemption Equals Death Epic Fail Scary Black Man Very Loosely Based on a True Story Only One Name Rule of Cool Dropped a Bridge on Him Improvised Weapon Product Placement Meet Cute Dying Moment of Awesome Aww, Look! 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The Ghost The Mole Canadian Movies Heroic Sacrifice Villain Protagonist 20 Minutes into the Future Australian Movies Spiritual Successor Wrong Genre Savvy Peek-a-Boo Corpse Defrosting Ice Queen Ship Tease Slasher Smile Artistic License – Biology Beware the Nice Ones Take a Third Option Market-Based Title Expository Hairstyle Change Developing Doomed Characters Dark Action Girl It Will Never Catch On The Remake Death by Adaptation Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Sassy Black Woman Blood from the Mouth Film Noir Naked People Are Funny Dark Is Not Evil Pay Evil unto Evil Recycled IN SPACE! Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Idiot Ball Sir Swears-a-Lot Historical Hero Upgrade Drugs Are Bad Boom, Headshot! The Stoic Award-Bait Song Male Frontal Nudity A.I. Is a Crapshoot The Alcoholic Public Domain Feature Films Five-Man Band Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Fiery Redhead Adapted Out Betty and Veronica Serious Business Epic Movie Shut Up, Hannibal! Super Strength Extreme Doormat The Chessmaster O.O.C. Is Serious Business Early Installment Weirdness Mistaken for Gay Half the Man He Used to Be Plot Hole Red Shirt The Chick Re-Cut folderlabel Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Berserk Button Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Action Prologue Chewing the Scenery Amusing Injuries Dull Surprise Evil Brit Cold-Blooded Torture Fatal Flaw Black Comedy Rape Woman Scorned Word of God Light Is Not Good Took a Level in Badass Only in It for the Money Deliberately Monochrome Improbable Aiming Skills BFG Calling the Old Man Out Amoral Attorney Batman Gambit Bring My Brown Pants Black and Gray Morality Line-of-Sight Name The Lancer Gorn Adaptational Badass Bloodless Carnage There Is No Kill Like Overkill Curse Cut Short Genre Throwback Mood Whiplash Hidden Depths As Long as It Sounds Foreign Bond One-Liner Made of Iron Tagline Chiaroscuro Rasputinian Death The Cavalry The Voiceless Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The Film of the Book Comically Missing the Point My Beloved Smother Mooks He Who Fights Monsters Time Skip Parental Substitute German Films Hypocritical Humor Closed Circle Funny Foreigner Shown Their Work Age Lift Alas, Poor Villain Faking the Dead Rule of Funny Stealth Hi/Bye Blatant Lies Knight Templar '80s Hair Malevolent Masked Men Star-Crossed Lovers You Have Failed Me May–December Romance Belligerent Sexual Tension Combat Pragmatist Unusually Uninteresting Sight Suspiciously Specific Denial