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Back from the Dead
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
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Jerkass Has a Point
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Apocalypse How
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Taking You with Me
Didn't Think This Through
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Disproportionate Retribution
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Shut Up, Hannibal!
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Not So Different
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Tempting Fate
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast
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You Have Failed Me
What the Hell, Hero?
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Babies Ever After
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Hidden Depths
Worthy Opponent
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent
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Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Sequel Hook
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Covers Always Lie
Gorn
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Roger Ebert: Great Movies List
Death Seeker
Outrun the Fireball
Kick the Dog
The Dragon
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Film Noir
For Want of a Nail
Meaningful Name
Artistic License Military
Spell My Name with an "S"
Bottomless Magazines
Evil-Detecting Dog
Gratuitous English
Interrupted Suicide
Alas, Poor Villain
Real Life Writes the Plot
Ripped from the Headlines
Fiery Redhead
Tagline
Country Matters
Ms. Fanservice
Break the Cutie
Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Be Careful What You Wish For
Big "NO!"
Big-Bad Ensemble
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
Good Is Not Nice
Death by Irony
Pimped-Out Dress
Spiritual Successor
Improbable Aiming Skills
Abhorrent Admirer
Christmas Movies Index
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Costume Porn
Darker and Edgier
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Death by Adaptation
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Department of Redundancy Department
A Father to His Men
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Driven to Suicide
What Happened to the Mouse?
The '60s
Up to Eleven
You Killed My Father
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It's All About Me
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Blatant Lies
In Medias Res
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Anti-Hero
Manchild
From Bad to Worse
The Remake
Friend to All Children
Dogged Nice Guy
True Companions
Dark Action Girl
Rich Bitch
The Hero
You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
Early-Bird Cameo
Obviously Evil
Berserk Button
French Films
Heroic Sacrifice
Fire-Forged Friends
All Just a Dream
Developing Doomed Characters
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Accidental Murder
Badass Bookworm
Only a Flesh Wound
Famous Last Words
Adults Are Useless
Scenery Porn
Running Gag
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Pretty in Mink
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Male Frontal Nudity
Curb-Stomp Battle
Badass in a Nice Suit
Disney Death
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Pyrrhic Victory
Your Cheating Heart
Unwitting Instigator of Doom
NO INDOOR VOICE
Kids Are Cruel
Call-Forward
N-Word Privileges
Animal Motifs
What You Are in the Dark
The Stoic
Agony of the Feet
Ax-Crazy
Distracted by the Sexy
Humans Are Bastards
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
My Beloved Smother
Video Credits
Psycho for Hire
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Slap-Slap-Kiss
Bolivian Army Ending
The '50s
Gory Discretion Shot
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Off with His Head!
Bald of Evil
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Plucky Comic Relief
Dramedy
Re-Cut
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Adaptation Dye-Job
Blood from the Mouth
Immune to Bullets
Book-Ends
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Broken Bird
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Crapsack World
Historical In-Joke
Shipper on Deck
The Ace
Only in It for the Money
The Smart Guy
Bavarian Fire Drill
Put on a Bus
The Faceless
Bond Villain Stupidity
Leaning on the Fourth Wall
O.O.C. Is Serious Business
And the Adventure Continues
Mr. Exposition
He Who Fights Monsters
Music Stories
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Even Evil Has Standards
Arc Words
Corpsing
And Starring
Love Triangle
"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Improbable Infant Survival
aka: Infant Immortality
Brutal Honesty
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
The Power of Love
Mood Whiplash
The Big Guy
Ghost Fiction
Diabolus ex Machina
Casting Gag
Bowdlerise
Genre Savvy
Sir Swears-a-Lot
Fate Worse than Death
Police are Useless
Defiant to the End
Vampire Fiction
Creepy Child
Rated M for Manly
Dual Wielding
One Steve Limit
Refuge in Audacity
It's Personal
I Need a Freaking Drink
Wham Line
Whole Plot Reference
Red Shirt
Eureka Moment
Bad "Bad Acting"
Red Oni, Blue Oni
Mind Screw
Fatal Family Photo
Gender Flip
"Awesome McCool" Name
Awesome, but Impractical
Alliterative Name
Based on a True Story
Mama Bear
Straight Gay
Dressing as the Enemy
I'm a Humanitarian
Sacrificial Lion
Offscreen Teleportation
Mugging the Monster
Villain Protagonist
Sexy Discretion Shot
Mistaken for Gay
Daddy's Girl
Light Is Not Good
Danny Peary Cult Movies List
Affably Evil
Blackmail
Have a Gay Old Time
Adaptational Heroism
Every Car Is a Pinto
Cain and Abel
Toilet Humour
aka: Toilet Humor
Honor Before Reason
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
The End... Or Is It?
Chase Scene
Arch-Enemy
Vomit Discretion Shot
Depraved Bisexual
Improbable Weapon User
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
He Knows Too Much
No Antagonist
Cruel and Unusual Death
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Not So Stoic
The Vamp
Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Genre Throwback
Wrong Genre Savvy
Translation Convention
Fatal Flaw
Deliberate Values Dissonance
Rape as Drama
Anti-Villain
The Mafia
The Dog Bites Back
Hate Sink
Insistent Terminology
Taking the Bullet
Exact Words
Retirony
Bound and Gagged
Action Prologue
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
20 Minutes into the Future
Idiot Ball
Cool Old Lady
Bad Boss
Posthumous Character
Lighter and Softer
Our Zombies Are Different
The Alleged Car
Punny Name
Bury Your Gays
Manly Tears
From Nobody to Nightmare
Black and Gray Morality
Laughing Mad
The Casanova
Not What It Looks Like
Attempted Rape
Gold Digger
Spanner in the Works
Big Bad Duumvirate
Improvised Weapon
Precision F-Strike
Double-Meaning Title
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Implacable Man
Destination Defenestration
Cowboy Cop
Rule of Cool
A Date with Rosie Palms
Historical Villain Upgrade
Almost Kiss
Bare Your Midriff
War Is Hell
Moment Killer
Brick Joke
Karmic Death
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Foil
Actually Pretty Funny
Author Appeal
Aluminum Christmas Trees
Anachronic Order
Half the Man He Used to Be
Politically Incorrect Villain
Self-Deprecation
Double Entendre
Show Within a Show
Flashback
Framing Device
Fourth Date Marriage
Camp Gay
Black Dude Dies First
Overprotective Dad
Alpha Bitch
Crazy-Prepared
Due to the Dead
The Cameo
The Chessmaster
Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Authority Equals Asskicking
The Musical
Conspicuous CG
Really Gets Around
B-Movie
Smoking Is Cool
La Résistance
The Place
Mad Scientist
Noodle Incident
Say My Name
Chiaroscuro
All Girls Want Bad Boys
Villain with Good Publicity
Arranged Marriage
It Will Never Catch On
Cool Guns
Jitter Cam
Heterosexual Life-Partners
Stock Footage
Enemy Mine
Rule of Symbolism
Accidental Misnaming
Unresolved Sexual Tension
Kick the Son of a Bitch
Rasputinian Death
Evil Brit
Composite Character
All There in the Manual
Hollywood Law
Deus ex Machina
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Homage
Decoy Protagonist
As Himself
Toplessness from the Back
Non-Indicative Name
Large Ham
The '80s
Humiliation Conga
Credits Gag
Stylistic Suck
Eiffel Tower Effect
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Soft Glass
Faux Affably Evil
Neck Snap
No-Sell
"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Reckless Gun Usage
Never Trust a Trailer
Guns Akimbo
Big Applesauce
Shout-Out
Motor Mouth
Sci-Fi Horror
Disguised in Drag
As You Know
Artistic License Geography
Intergenerational Friendship
Gone Horribly Right
Knife Nut
Shirtless Scene
Dirty Coward
Line-of-Sight Name
Break the Haughty
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Green-Eyed Monster
Advertised Extra
Would Hurt a Child
Adorkable
Flipping the Bird
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Comically Missing the Point
Storming the Castle
Evil Is Petty
Australian Movies
Sealed Evil in a Can
Narrator
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aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience
A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Red Right Hand
One-Word Title
Paper-Thin Disguise
Parental Abandonment
Villain Song
Central Theme
Those Wacky Nazis
Darkest Hour
Gilligan Cut
Continuity Nod
Beware the Nice Ones
Imagine Spot
Easily Forgiven
Age Lift
Yandere
Fan Disservice
Mercy Kill
Belligerent Sexual Tension
One-Man Army
Film Series
Ambiguously Gay
Fake Shemp
Your Head A-Splode
Artistic License Law
Daylight Horror
Made of Explodium
Pretty Little Headshots
Men Are the Expendable Gender
Fish out of Water
Does This Remind You of Anything?
Not So Above It All
Together in Death
Product Placement
The Smurfette Principle
Grievous Bottley Harm
The Un-Reveal
Captain Ersatz
Big Bad
The Lost Lenore
Took a Level in Jerkass
I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Hope Spot
Adaptation Expansion
Face Death with Dignity
Ascended Extra
Hypocritical Humor
MacGuffin
Take a Third Option
Small Name, Big Ego
Obfuscating Stupidity
I Have Your Wife
Sinister Minister
Mexican Standoff
This Is Gonna Suck
The Ditz
Creative Closing Credits
Badass Boast
Eagleland
Horror Comedy
Rule of Funny
Beta Couple
BrotherSister Incest
Expy
Important Haircut
Setting Update
Deadpan Snarker
Film Noir Index
Artistic License Physics
No Ending
Earn Your Happy Ending
Bond One-Liner
The Cavalry
Romantic Comedy
Faking the Dead
An Arm and a Leg
Get Out!
Room Full of Crazy
Morality Pet
Fantasy Films
Antagonist Title
An Axe to Grind
Spiteful Spit
Index of Film Westerns
The Mole
Death by Sex
Empathic Environment
Dies Wide Open
Those Two Bad Guys
Epic Movie
Cat Scare
Scare Chord
Rousing Speech
Sequel Escalation
Retired Badass
She's Got Legs
Funny Background Event
Evil Laugh
Smug Snake
Anguished Declaration of Love
Slasher Smile
Cassandra Truth
Never Trust a Trailer
aka: Trailers Always Lie
Random Events Plot
Action Survivor
Protagonist Title
The Dreaded
Coming-of-Age Story
Demonic Possession
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Nice Hat
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
More Dakka
Cool Car
Scary Black Man
Russian Films
Captain Obvious
Kill It with Fire
Science Fiction Films
The Great Depression
Combat Pragmatist
Did Not Get the Girl
Evil Sounds Deep
Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Grey and Gray Morality
Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Took a Level in Badass
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Armor-Piercing Question
Rewatch Bonus
Drowning My Sorrows
Playing Gertrude
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Badass Longcoat
Freeze-Frame Bonus
My God, What Have I Done?
Establishing Character Moment
The Oner
Shown Their Work
No Celebrities Were Harmed
Death of a Child
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Asshole Victim
Killed Mid-Sentence
Horror Films
Card-Carrying Villain
Canadian Movies
Cool Old Guy
All Men Are Perverts
And I Must Scream
Zombie Stories
Romantic False Lead
Skewed Priorities
Anachronism Stew
Calling the Old Man Out
Adaptation Name Change
Catapult Nightmare
Time Skip
Foregone Conclusion
Epic Fail
Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
The Alcoholic
Spared by the Adaptation
Pay Evil unto Evil
Military and Warfare Films
Ship Tease
Eldritch Abomination
Karma Houdini
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Hero of Another Story
Sports Stories
Bilingual Bonus
Knight Templar
Never Found the Body
Closed Circle
Mr. Fanservice
Disney Villain Death
Dark Is Not Evil
Damsel in Distress
Make It Look Like an Accident
Poor Communication Kills
Woman Scorned
Scenery Gorn
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Greater-Scope Villain
Bland-Name Product
Naked People Are Funny
Animated Credits Opening
Red Herring
Novelization
Hoist by His Own Petard
Totally Radical
Pragmatic Adaptation
Pragmatic Villainy
Deal with the Devil
The Load
Red Eyes, Take Warning
Chekhov's Gun
Final Girl
Black Best Friend
Mundane Made Awesome
Hair-Trigger Temper
Leitmotif
Psychological Thriller
Freudian Excuse
Last-Name Basis
Bloody Hilarious
Dirty Old Man
Character Development
Undying Loyalty
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
A God Am I
Hell Is That Noise
Body Horror
Black Comedy Rape
Dumb Blonde
As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Defrosting Ice Queen
Mythology Gag
Oh, Crap!
Meet Cute
Nothing Is Scarier
Catch-Phrase
Actor Allusion
Ominous Latin Chanting
Only Known by Their Nickname
Revenge
Villain Ball
Mooks
Disappeared Dad
Redshirt Army
Redemption Equals Death
In the Back
Dissonant Serenity
Everyone Has Standards
Determinator
aka: The Determinator
Frame-Up
Major Injury Underreaction
Hong Kong Films
Drugs Are Bad
Reasonable Authority Figure
Naïve Newcomer
Dutch Angle
Trailers Always Spoil
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Soundtrack Dissonance
The Bad Guy Wins
Cool Shades
Adaptational Badass
Sassy Black Woman
An Aesop
Stepford Smiler
Unusual Euphemism
The Bully
Married to the Job
Breaking the Fourth Wall
Papa Wolf
Monumental Damage
Historical-Domain Character
Adult Fear
The Voiceless
Fantastic Racism
Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Stalker with a Crush
Throwing Your Sword Always Works
Fainting
Award-Bait Song
Creator Cameo
Drill Sergeant Nasty
The '70s
Too Dumb to Live
Mighty Whitey
Leave the Camera Running
Informed Ability
Twist Ending
Tap on the Head
The Starscream
Serial Killer
Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Race Against the Clock
Retcon
Getting Crap Past the Radar
Riddle for the Ages