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