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