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Is Serious Business Manipulative Bastard Adaptational Heroism Product Placement A.I. Is a Crapshoot Car Fu Fainting Large Ham Never Found the Body Never My Fault Plot Hole Slashed Throat Random Events Plot Action Prologue My God, What Have I Done? Dying Moment of Awesome Anti-Villain Ass Shove World of Ham Apocalypse How Australian Movies Disappeared Dad Leave the Camera Running Did Not Get the Girl Belligerent Sexual Tension Show Within a Show Alpha Bitch Age Lift Victoria's Secret Compartment Your Head A-Splode Only in It for the Money Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Moment Killer Historical Villain Upgrade Italian Films Toplessness from the Back Together in Death Cowboy Cop Big Damn Heroes Freudian Excuse Meaningful Background Event Noodle Incident Ambiguous Disorder Arranged Marriage Insistent Terminology The Musical Pay Evil unto Evil I'm a Humanitarian Amoral Attorney Title Drop For Want of a Nail Not Quite Dead Politically Incorrect Villain Black and Gray Morality Brutal Honesty Arch-Enemy Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Jerkass Has a Point Novelization Not Using the "Z" Word Double Entendre