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