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Casting Gag Say My Name Rasputinian Death Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Sequel Hook Video Credits Anachronism Stew Heel–Face Turn Sir Swears-a-Lot The Casanova Canon Foreigner Stealth Pun Public Domain Feature Films Due to the Dead Police are Useless Dropped a Bridge on Him Mooks Red Herring Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Brick Joke Unusually Uninteresting Sight Bond Villain Stupidity "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Double-Meaning Title The Load Continuity Nod Dark Reprise Rewatch Bonus Get Out! Token Minority Authority Equals Asskicking Cat Fight Bavarian Fire Drill Country Matters Grey and Gray Morality The Remake Black Best Friend Historical In-Joke Suspiciously Similar Substitute Worthy Opponent Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience The Lancer Does Not Like Shoes Drives Like Crazy Offscreen Moment of Awesome Sinister Minister Fate Worse than Death Never My Fault Foreshadowing The Power of Love Precision F-Strike A Date with Rosie Palms The Dreaded Crucified Hero Shot The Stinger All for Nothing Psycho for Hire Green-Eyed Monster Jerk Jock Insane Troll Logic Protagonist Title The Cavalry Every Car Is a Pinto Bound and Gagged Immune to Bullets Face Death with Dignity Overly Long Gag Guile Hero The Bully Cool Old Lady Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Plucky Comic Relief Evil Sounds Deep Jerkass Has a Point Eye Scream Bare Your Midriff Sanity Slippage Random Events Plot Contrived Coincidence Bottomless Magazines Blood from the Mouth No Celebrities Were Harmed And Starring Dying Moment of Awesome Race Against the Clock Demonic Possession Dwindling Party Deus ex Machina Your Head A-Splode Obfuscating Stupidity MacGuffin Jump Scare Adaptational Attractiveness Improbable Aiming Skills The Alcoholic Tempting Fate Storming the Castle Artistic License – Military Idiot Ball Facial Horror The Faceless Awesome, but Impractical Psychopathic Manchild Reality Ensues Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Badass Bookworm Vomit Indiscretion Shot Gory Discretion Shot World of Ham More Dakka Super Strength Knife Nut Fish out of Water Canadian Movies Only in It for the Money Even Evil Has Standards The '50s Retcon Curse Cut Short Loophole Abuse Chekhov's Gun Horror Comedy Spared by the Adaptation Morality Pet Monumental Damage Scare Chord Irony Fantasy Films Insistent Terminology Bi the Way Earn Your Happy Ending Off-into-the-Distance Ending Match Cut Killed Mid-Sentence Retirony Rousing Speech Star-Crossed Lovers Serious Business Flashback Action Prologue Wrong Genre Savvy Disney Death 20 Minutes into the Future Crazy Jealous Guy Gorn BFG Villain with Good Publicity Evil Laugh Same Language Dub Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Moment Killer I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Brutal Honesty Mugging the Monster Defiant to the End Vampire Fiction Hollywood Darkness Fire-Forged Friends Room Full of Crazy Animated Credits Opening Badass Boast Naked People Are Funny As Himself Accidental Murder Properly Paranoid There Is No Kill Like Overkill Vitriolic Best Buds Small Name, Big Ego Left the Background Music On Death Seeker Epic Movie Arc Words Bad "Bad Acting" Implacable Man Setting Update Dissonant Serenity Plot Hole Ripped from the Headlines Never Found the Body Action Girl Break the Haughty Early Installment Weirdness Anguished Declaration of Love Didn't Think This Through Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Very Loosely Based on a True Story Evil vs. Evil Manipulative Bastard Works Set in World War II Evil Counterpart Slashed Throat Slasher Movie Male Gaze Naïve Newcomer Nice Guy Silent Movie Eureka Moment From Nobody to Nightmare Fatal Family Photo Well-Intentioned Extremist Demoted to Extra He Who Fights Monsters Twist Ending Death by Adaptation Soft Glass Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Antagonist Title Distracted by the Sexy Television Movie Index Rule of Cool Determinator aka: The Determinator Slap-Slap-Kiss This Is Gonna Suck Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Fingore Mood Whiplash And the Adventure Continues Bilingual Bonus The Dog Bites Back Meet Cute A God Am I Car Fu Pay Evil unto Evil Punctuated! 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Bunny-Ears Lawyer And I Must Scream Diabolus ex Machina Vomit Discretion Shot Maybe Ever After You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Real Life The Atoner Really Gets Around The Chick Fourth Date Marriage Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Evil Plan Hope Spot Russian Films All There in the Manual Drugs Are Bad Visual Pun Mad Scientist Evil Brit The Chessmaster Instant Death Bullet Kubrick Stare Historical Hero Upgrade Bloodless Carnage Arranged Marriage Motor Mouth Insult Backfire Groin Attack Jitter Cam Military and Warfare Films Nice Hat Parental Abandonment Wicked Cultured Good Is Not Nice Rich Bitch Big-Bad Ensemble Unresolved Sexual Tension Recycled IN SPACE! Love Triangle Woman in White Older Than They Look Disappeared Dad Skewed Priorities Our Vampires Are Different Sexy Discretion Shot Big Bad For Want of a Nail La Résistance Our Zombies Are Different Married to the Job Action Survivor The X of Y Hong Kong Films Self-Deprecation She's Got Legs The '60s Big "NO!" 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Real Life Writes the Plot How We Got Here Dogged Nice Guy Crazy-Prepared Man on Fire Mystery and Detective Films Smug Snake Translation Convention Interrupted Suicide Bowdlerise Film Noir Index No Name Given The '80s Ghost Fiction No Ending All Men Are Perverts Wretched Hive Lighter and Softer Large Ham The Brute Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Eldritch Abomination Everyone Has Standards Refuge in Audacity Parental Incest Humans Are Bastards Neck Lift The Oner Running Gag Shirtless Scene Final Girl Framing Device Bloodier and Gorier Red Oni, Blue Oni Evil Is Hammy The Reveal Unwitting Instigator of Doom Italian Films An Aesop Artistic License – History Camp Gay Novelization Adaptation Distillation Eyepatch of Power Spanner in the Works The Big Guy My Beloved Smother "Shaggy Dog" Story Hell Is That Noise For the Evulz Revenge The Lost Lenore Villain Ball Big Eater Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Is Serious Business Death of a Child Trailers Always Spoil I Did What I Had to Do Hero of Another Story Wounded Gazelle Gambit True Companions Broken Pedestal Daylight Horror Obviously Evil Time Skip Friend to All Children Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Pragmatic Adaptation Dramatic Gun Cock Informed Ability Death by Sex Hero Antagonist All Just a Dream No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Auto Erotica War Is Hell Ungrateful Bastard Shipper on Deck Needs Wiki Magic Love Daddy's Girl She Cleans Up Nicely Only a Flesh Wound Pre-Mortem One-Liner The Film of the Book Costume Porn Market-Based Title Conspicuous CG Ship Tease The Alleged Car Eagleland The Musical timeperiod Cloudcuckoolander Agony of the Feet Karmic Death Would Hit a Girl Bald of Evil Aside Glance Grievous Bottley Harm Evil-Detecting Dog Names to Run Away from Really Fast Fan Disservice Boom, Headshot! Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Dirty Old Man Cold-Blooded Torture Alas, Poor Villain Deliberately Monochrome Scenery Gorn Eiffel Tower Effect Flipping the Bird Book-Ends Breaking the Fourth Wall Whole Plot Reference Hoist by His Own Petard Adaptational Villainy Men Are the Expendable Gender Undying Loyalty Gold Digger Sci-Fi Horror Abusive Parents Developing Doomed Characters Darker and Edgier What the Hell, Hero? Mama Bear The Sociopath Honor Before Reason The Cameo No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Curb-Stomp Battle Totally Radical Chekhov's Skill As Long as It Sounds Foreign Straight Gay Domestic Abuse Papa Wolf Bland-Name Product Chiaroscuro Broken Bird Extremely Short Timespan Overprotective Dad Greater-Scope Villain Lock and Load Montage Genre Savvy Red Eyes, Take Warning Alpha Bitch Took a Level in Badass Thriller "Awesome McCool" Name Fiery Redhead Creative Closing Credits Sports Stories Sequel Escalation Sealed Evil in a Can Genre Throwback The Hero Manly Tears Cruel and Unusual Death Your Cheating Heart Big Fancy House Pyrrhic Victory Shown Their Work One-Word Title Take a Third Option Villain Opening Scene Even Evil Has Loved Ones Black and Gray Morality Cassandra Truth Blonde, Brunette, Redhead The Vamp Heel Realization Mr. Fanservice Cool Car Only Known by Their Nickname Cool Guns Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Empathic Environment Ass Shove Kill It with Fire Ambiguously Gay Off with His Head! Animal Motifs I Need a Freaking Drink Romantic False Lead Despair Event Horizon Adaptation Name Change The Quiet One What You Are in the Dark NO INDOOR VOICE Ambiguous Ending Deliberate Values Dissonance Stealth Hi/Bye All There in the Script Historical-Domain Character Hooker with a Heart of Gold An Axe to Grind Red Right Hand Frame-Up Body Horror Black Dude Dies First Made of Explodium Does This Remind You of Anything? Hypocrite Yandere Victoria's Secret Compartment Anti-Hero Title Drop Those Two Bad Guys Scary Black Man The Smurfette Principle Brainless Beauty Belligerent Sexual Tension Made of Iron Award-Bait Song Anyone Can Die Fanservice Extra No-Sell Air-Vent Passageway Attempted Rape My God, What Have I Done? Silence Is Golden Bury Your Gays Spell My Name with an "S" Would Hurt a Child Film Series Determinator British Films The Ace Artistic License – Physics Beard of Evil Horror Films Captain Ersatz Sole Survivor Product Placement Punny Name Cowboy Cop Adorkable Malevolent Masked Men Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism As You Know Stalker with a Crush Black Comedy Rape Line-of-Sight Name Accidental Misnaming Heroes Want Redheads Smoking Is Cool Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Only One Name Bad Boss Affably Evil Beware the Nice Ones Establishing Character Moment Children Are Innocent Exact Words Ms. Fanservice Shut Up, Hannibal! I Have Your Wife Redemption Equals Death Unreliable Narrator Last-Name Basis Hypocritical Humor Gender Flip Not So Above It All A.I. Is a Crapshoot Badass Longcoat Laser-Guided Karma Too Dumb to Live Not Using the "Z" Word The Ghost Reckless Gun Usage Disguised in Drag You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Index of Film Westerns Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Dark Is Not Evil Call-Forward Freeze-Frame Bonus Outrun the Fireball Meaningful Echo Sadistic Choice In Name Only Not So Stoic My Greatest Failure Brother–Sister Incest Asshole Victim Dark Action Girl Wham Line Punch-Clock Villain Wham Shot Break the Cutie Annoying Younger Sibling The Ditz Mexican Standoff Famous Last Words Bittersweet Ending Once More, with Clarity! Hollywood Law Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Taking the Bullet Apocalypse How Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? What Happened to the Mouse? Gilligan Cut Blatant Lies Corpsing Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Never Trust a Trailer '80s Hair Martial Arts Movie Disproportionate Retribution Black Comedy He Knows Too Much Slasher Smile Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Improbable Weapon User "Well Done, Son!" Guy Author Avatar Dark and Troubled Past Handicapped Badass Villain Song Parental Neglect Captain Obvious Light Is Not Good The Place Documentary Actually Pretty Funny Villainous Breakdown Age Lift Toplessness from the Back Christmas Movies Index Superhero Actor Allusion Let's Get Dangerous! Ominous Latin Chanting Missing Mom Leaning on the Fourth Wall Anachronic Order Shell-Shocked Veteran Action Genre Bait-and-Switch Film Noir Badass in a Nice Suit Show Within a Show Leitmotif Pet the Dog Cool Old Guy Almost Kiss The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite The Mole Put on a Bus Have a Gay Old Time Deconstruction Betty and Veronica Adaptational Heroism Crapsack World Chekhov's Gunman Science Fiction Films Composite Character Big Bad Duumvirate Japanese Films Ascended Extra Abhorrent Admirer Hate Sink Adaptation Expansion Face–Heel Turn A Father to His Men Deal with the Devil Kids Are Cruel Knight Templar Gratuitous English Badass Grandpa Gone Horribly Right One-Man Army Mr. Exposition Riddle for the Ages Villain Protagonist Suspiciously Specific Denial All Girls Want Bad Boys Suddenly SHOUTING! Shoot the Shaggy Dog Mind Screw Funny Background Event It Will Never Catch On Took a Level in Jerkass Armor-Piercing Question French Films Fat Bastard Calling the Old Man Out Aluminum Christmas Trees You Killed My Father Manic Pixie Dream Girl The Bad Guy Wins Dutch Angle Four-Temperament Ensemble Blood Knight Truth in Television It's All About Me Bond One-Liner Freudian Excuse Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Peek-a-Boo Corpse "The Reason You Suck" Speech Poor Communication Kills Double Entendre Meaningful Background Event After the End Mercy Kill Taking You with Me Not Quite Dead Combat Pragmatist Be Careful What You Wish For