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