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