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