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