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Big Eater Stalker with a Crush Abusive Parents Shell-Shocked Veteran Well-Intentioned Extremist Anachronism Stew Pre-Mortem One-Liner Cloudcuckoolander Scary Black Man Bloodless Carnage One-Man Army Translation Convention Broken Bird Your Cheating Heart Unusual Euphemism The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite My God, What Have I Done? The End... Or Is It? Cool Car How We Got Here Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Oh, Crap! Music Stories Horror Films Becoming the Mask Insult Backfire The Quiet One Random Events Plot Berserk Button One-Word Title The Vamp Very Loosely Based on a True Story The Smart Guy Mugging the Monster Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Totally Radical Jerkass Male Frontal Nudity Sexy Discretion Shot Faking the Dead Bond One-Liner Would Hurt a Child Captain Obvious Ass Shove Instant Death Bullet Death of a Child Took a Level in Badass Heel Realization Never My Fault Flashback "Awesome McCool" Name La Résistance Fingore Cowboy Cop Kick the Dog Parental Substitute Call-Back Australian Movies Reasonable Authority Figure Pay Evil unto Evil Fantastic Racism Due to the Dead Artistic License – Physics Public Domain Feature Films Kick the Son of a Bitch Super Strength Insane Troll Logic Eiffel Tower Effect Take That! Evil Is Petty Back from the Dead Even Evil Has Standards Five-Man Band Woman in White Genre Shift Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Moment Killer Continuity Nod Mr. Fanservice The Ghost Improbable Aiming Skills Fire-Forged Friends Documentary Military and Warfare Films Red Shirt Politically Incorrect Villain Evil Plan Reality Is Unrealistic Ominous Latin Chanting Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Hooker with a Heart of Gold Aside Glance Important Haircut In Name Only Four-Temperament Ensemble Men Are the Expendable Gender Artistic License – Geography Same Language Dub Psychopathic Manchild Male Gaze Drives Like Crazy The Cavalry Rule of Symbolism Tagline Together in Death Setting Update Disguised in Drag Once More, with Clarity! Guile Hero "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Yandere All There in the Script Bound and Gagged Manly Tears Crazy Jealous Guy Historical Hero Upgrade Adaptation Dye-Job Dark Is Not Evil Ship Tease German Films Cool Guns Papa Wolf Apocalypse How Asshole Victim The '90s It Will Never Catch On Overprotective Dad Star-Crossed Lovers Deadpan Snarker Beware the Nice Ones Let's Get Dangerous! Cat Fight The Casanova Hero of Another Story As the Good Book Says... Loophole Abuse Cool Old Guy Arch-Enemy Earn Your Happy Ending Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Biopic Sports Stories Book-Ends Vacation Films Curb-Stomp Battle Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Red Eyes, Take Warning Drowning My Sorrows Combat Pragmatist Neck Lift Sassy Black Woman Peek-a-Boo Corpse Shower Scene Dogged Nice Guy No Antagonist Spiteful Spit Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Action Genre Anyone Can Die War Is Hell Drill Sergeant Nasty Humiliation Conga Batman Gambit Hypocrite Anachronic Order Shown Their Work Disney Villain Death Animated Credits Opening An Arm and a Leg Skewed Priorities Disproportionate Retribution Danny Peary Cult Movies List Rated M for Manly Slasher Smile Honor Before Reason Vampire Fiction Obfuscating Stupidity Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Anti-Hero Not So Different Happily Married Only One Name Truth in Television Dying Moment of Awesome Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Better to Die than Be Killed Big Bad Heroic Sacrifice Made of Iron Rule of Funny British Films Romantic Comedy Disappeared Dad Butt-Monkey Ambiguous Disorder Decoy Protagonist Villain with Good Publicity Amoral Attorney Belligerent Sexual Tension Adult Fear An Aesop Author Appeal Sealed Evil in a Can Not Using the "Z" Word Camp Gay Adaptational Heroism Evil Is Hammy The Power of Love Dwindling Party Married to the Job Alas, Poor Villain Pretty in Mink Stepford Smiler Villainous Breakdown Non-Indicative Name Crapsack World Getting Crap Past the Radar One Steve Limit Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Motor Mouth Playing Gertrude Dirty Cop Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Toplessness from the Back Dissonant Serenity Morality Pet Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday It Can Think Self-Deprecation Wounded Gazelle Gambit Re-Cut Corrupt Corporate Executive Pimped-Out Dress Evil-Detecting Dog Half the Man He Used to Be Bittersweet Ending Blood from the Mouth Sequel Hook Diabolus ex Machina Ambiguous Ending Wretched Hive Title Drop Gilligan Cut Madness Mantra Action Survivor Missing Mom Intergenerational Friendship Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Alpha Bitch Rasputinian Death Works Set in World War II Karma Houdini After the End Death Seeker Not Quite Dead Gone Horribly Right Based on a True Story Small Name, Big Ego The Dog Bites Back Rewatch Bonus Black Best Friend Outrun the Fireball Narrator Red Right Hand Shipper on Deck Failed a Spot Check Training Montage "The Reason You Suck" Speech I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Dark Action Girl Fun with Acronyms Dumb Blonde Poor Communication Kills Facial Horror Hell Is That Noise No-Sell Too Dumb to Live Serial Killer Adaptation Expansion Domestic Abuse Black Comedy Rape In the Back Not So Stoic Our Zombies Are Different The Brute Word of God Card-Carrying Villain Cluster F-Bomb Psycho for Hire Everyone Has Standards Creator Cameo Running Gag Eyepatch of Power Bolivian Army Ending The Musical The Bully Redemption Equals Death Villain Song The Place Mercy Kill As You Know Wham Shot Darkest Hour Badass Bookworm In Medias Res Slap-Slap-Kiss Mind Screw Idiot Ball Not So Above It All Homage Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Ripped from the Headlines Even Evil Has Loved Ones Bar Brawl Silence Is Golden Calling the Old Man Out Woman Scorned Not What It Looks Like The Oner Heel–Face Turn Lighter and Softer Corpsing Meaningful Background Event No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Flipping the Bird Broken Aesop Ax-Crazy Rule of Cool Posthumous Character Gratuitous English Fainting Shout-Out Chekhov's Skill BFG Mr. Exposition Cool Old Lady Stock Footage Exactly What It Says on the Tin Paper-Thin Disguise Sci-Fi Horror Exact Words Insistent Terminology Jitter Cam Death by Sex Properly Paranoid Unresolved Sexual Tension It's Personal You Have Outlived Your Usefulness I Did What I Had to Do Eldritch Abomination Really Gets Around Badass Normal Meaningful Echo Artistic License – History Obstructive Bureaucrat Bowdlerise Easily Forgiven Rousing Speech Ironic Echo Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Defiant to the End Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Refuge in Audacity Downer Ending Ascended Extra Aluminum Christmas Trees Historical In-Joke B-Movie Kill It with Fire Dual Wielding Superhero For Want of a Nail Deconstruction Nothing Is Scarier Red Herring Hong Kong Films Bilingual Bonus No Name Given Bi the Way Conspicuous CG Auto Erotica Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Chekhov's Gun Mighty Whitey Large Ham Blatant Lies Beta Couple Fanservice Extra Age Lift Advertised Extra All for Nothing Sadistic Choice Karmic Death Chuck Cunningham Syndrome A Minor Kidroduction Hypocritical Humor My Beloved Smother Kubrick Stare Friend to All Children Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Canon Foreigner Defrosting Ice Queen "Shaggy Dog" Story World of Ham Pretty Little Headshots Deliberately Monochrome Grey and Gray Morality '80s Hair Dramatic Gun Cock Parental Incest Race Against the Clock Irony Amusing Injuries True Companions Be Careful What You Wish For Fate Worse than Death As Himself Nice Guy Babies Ever After The Mole Determinator aka: The Determinator Have a Gay Old Time Didn't Think This Through Dirty Old Man The Lost Lenore Villain Protagonist Artistic License – Military Sequel Escalation Foil Driven to Suicide Suspiciously Similar Substitute Black and Gray Morality She's Got Legs Taking You with Me Naked People Are Funny Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Obviously Evil Gorn Big "NO!" Names to Run Away from Really Fast I Have Your Wife The Faceless It's All About Me Artistic License – Law The Great Depression Foregone Conclusion Pet the Dog Lampshade Hanging Monumental Damage Good Is Not Nice Sinister Minister Costume Porn Betty and Veronica MacGuffin The Voiceless Greater-Scope Villain Mystery and Detective Films Retirony Mama Bear Freeze-Frame Bonus The Big Guy Manipulative Bastard Parental Neglect Romantic False Lead Older Than They Look Spell My Name with an "S" Last-Name Basis Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Dressing as the Enemy Dark Reprise The '60s Death by Adaptation The Film of the Book Wicked Cultured Expy Chewing the Scenery Spanner in the Works He Who Fights Monsters Artistic License – Biology Developing Doomed Characters The Reveal Killed Mid-Sentence Department of Redundancy Department Groin Attack Manchild "Well Done, Son!" Guy Deal with the Devil Trailers Always Spoil Black Comedy Captain Ersatz Deliberate Values Dissonance folderlabel Face Death with Dignity Film Series Spared by the Adaptation Those Two Guys Dutch Angle Fantasy Films Evil Brit Bald of Evil Dropped a Bridge on Him The Sociopath No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Almost Kiss Creative Closing Credits And Starring Early Installment Weirdness Hate Sink Hero Antagonist Those Wacky Nazis The X of Y Bad Boss Knife Nut Canadian Movies Freudian Excuse Light Is Not Good Get Out! Reckless Gun Usage The Stinger Coming-of-Age Story Red Oni, Blue Oni Extreme Doormat Make It Look Like an Accident Improbable Weapon User Funny Foreigner Say My Name Put on a Bus Scare Chord Spiritual Successor Smug Snake Arc Words Up to Eleven Kill 'em All I'm a Humanitarian Chase Scene Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Darker and Edgier No OSHA Compliance Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Retired Badass The Mafia Car Fu Needs Wiki Magic Love Tap on the Head Does Not Like Shoes Central Theme Real Life Writes the Plot Big Damn Heroes Evil Counterpart Big Bad Duumvirate Femme Fatale Genre Savvy Gold Digger The Alleged Car He Knows Too Much Hoist by His Own Petard The Hero Dies The Stoner Our Vampires Are Different Token Minority Riddle for the Ages Never Found the Body A Date with Rosie Palms Vitriolic Best Buds The '50s Parental Abandonment Sole Survivor Rape as Drama Destination Defenestration Adaptation Distillation Demoted to Extra Made of Explodium Only Known by Their Nickname Nice Hat Storming the Castle Film Noir Index Roaring Rampage of Revenge Undying Loyalty Brutal Honesty A.I. Is a Crapshoot Covers Always Lie Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Agony of the Feet Show Within a Show Fatal Family Photo Police are Useless Leave the Camera Running A Father to His Men There Is No Kill Like Overkill Kids Are Cruel Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Distracted by the Sexy Ungrateful Bastard Action Girl Despair Event Horizon Blackmail Heterosexual Life-Partners Redshirt Army Anguished Declaration of Love Wrong Genre Savvy Naïve Newcomer Dark and Troubled Past Damsel in Distress Logo Joke Imagine Spot Soundtrack Dissonance Victoria's Secret Compartment timeperiod Only a Flesh Wound Chekhov's Gunman Death by Irony Scenery Porn Anti-Villain Blood Knight Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Here We Go Again! Plucky Comic Relief Hair-Trigger Temper Establishing Character Moment Whole Plot Reference Visual Pun No Celebrities Were Harmed Big Fancy House The Load Camera Abuse The Stoic Wham Line Adults Are Useless Country Matters The Chick Laser-Guided Karma Adorkable Epic Fail Ghost Fiction Awesome, but Impractical Informed Ability The Atoner Fatal Flaw The Cameo Stealth Hi/Bye Humans Are Bastards Match Cut Expository Hairstyle Change Handicapped Badass Funny Background Event Bullying a Dragon Overly Long Gag Hollywood Law Mooks Affectionate Parody Off with His Head! Big Brother Instinct Unusually Uninteresting Sight What Happened to the Mouse? Lock and Load Montage Award-Bait Song Break the Cutie All Just a Dream Smoking Is Cool The Lancer Composite Character Genre Throwback Badass Longcoat Laughing Mad A God Am I Call-Forward Improvised Weapon Air-Vent Passageway Rich Bitch Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Shirtless Scene Thriller Catch-Phrase Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Throwing Your Sword Always Works Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Heroic BSoD Rule of Three Sir Swears-a-Lot Unspoken Plan Guarantee Artistic License – Gun Safety Gender Flip What You Are in the Dark Closed Circle Broken Pedestal Jerk Jock Bland-Name Product She Cleans Up Nicely Animal Title Index Brick Joke Psychological Thriller Science Fiction Films Authority Equals Asskicking Mistaken for Gay Credits Gag Big-Bad Ensemble 20 Minutes into the Future Deus ex Machina Punny Name May–December Romance Crazy-Prepared Stylistic Suck Bavarian Fire Drill Cat Scare Creepy Child Bait-and-Switch Adaptational Villainy Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Mad Scientist The Ace Animal Motifs Mundane Made Awesome Major Injury Underreaction Left the Background Music On Bottomless Magazines Vomit Discretion Shot Japanese Films Crucified Hero Shot Retcon Double Entendre Double-Meaning Title Eureka Moment Russian Films Reality Has No Subtitles Film Noir You Killed My Father Tranquil Fury Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass The Chessmaster Cold-Blooded Torture Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Real Life Foreshadowing Pyrrhic Victory Casting Gag Brainless Beauty Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Action Prologue Stealth Pun Cain and Abel Fourth Date Marriage Enemy Mine Every Car Is a Pinto All There in the Manual Cruel and Unusual Death Bunny-Ears Lawyer Brother–Sister Incest Shut Up, Hannibal! Zombie Stories Boom, Headshot! Chiaroscuro Take a Third Option Badass Boast Fat Bastard Punch-Clock Villain Precision F-Strike Beard of Evil Villain Ball Fiery Redhead Bring My Brown Pants Line-of-Sight Name Armor-Piercing Question Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Leaning on the Fourth Wall Video Credits The '70s Took a Level in Jerkass Death Glare Epic Movie And the Adventure Continues Vomit Indiscretion Shot Only in It for the Money Comically Missing the Point Soft Glass Eagleland Final Girl Fanservice Italian Films The Un-Reveal Grievous Bottley Harm From Bad to Worse Jump Scare Never Trust a Trailer Recycled IN SPACE! Immune to Bullets Mexican Standoff Pragmatic Adaptation Manic Pixie Dream Girl Body Horror Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Famous Last Words Only Sane Man Daddy's Girl O.O.C. Is Serious Business Empathic Environment Taking the Bullet Historical Villain Upgrade Man on Fire Noodle Incident What the Hell, Hero? Depraved Bisexual Adaptation Name Change Heroes Want Redheads The Dragon The Dreaded Loads and Loads of Characters Twist Ending Would Hit a Girl Hidden Depths Martial Arts Movie The Ditz Mood Whiplash Contrived Coincidence Accidental Misnaming Break the Haughty Worthy Opponent