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Evil Counterpart Very Loosely Based on a True Story The Ditz Eagleland Trailers Always Spoil Properly Paranoid Reality Has No Subtitles Lampshade Hanging Antagonist Title The '70s Public Domain Feature Films Every Car Is a Pinto Killed Mid-Sentence Expy Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Dwindling Party Unreliable Narrator Broken Aesop Dissonant Serenity Would Hurt a Child Bad "Bad Acting" Drowning My Sorrows Jerk with a Heart of Gold Villain Opening Scene Shower Scene Dramedy Groin Attack Despair Event Horizon Video Credits Toplessness from the Back The Alleged Car Deliberate Values Dissonance Wham Line Dying Moment of Awesome The Oner Empathic Environment Heroic Sacrifice Aside Glance The Big Guy Jump Scare Bare Your Midriff The Cameo Easily Forgiven Stuff Blowing Up Scenery Porn Kids Are Cruel Badass Grandpa Air-Vent Passageway May–December Romance Book-Ends Homage The Hero Dies Hell Is That Noise Chase Scene Intergenerational Friendship Spiteful Spit Wrong Genre Savvy Black Comedy Corpsing Real Life The Great Depression Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Artistic License – Geography Blood Knight Science Fiction Films Totally Radical Made of Explodium Shout-Out Dirty Cop Mooks The Ace Cool Old Lady The Faceless Ms. Fanservice Comically Missing the Point Mad Scientist Pimped-Out Dress Heroic BSoD I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Unwitting Instigator of Doom Hero Antagonist Eye Scream Big Damn Heroes Drill Sergeant Nasty Adaptational Badass Insult Backfire Hope Spot Composite Character Suspiciously Similar Substitute As Himself Insane Troll Logic Loophole Abuse Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Shoot the Shaggy Dog Shown Their Work Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Is a Crapshoot Offscreen Moment of Awesome Children Are Innocent Cowboy Cop Cool Shades Friend to All Children The Stinger Lighter and Softer Dark Action Girl Shell-Shocked Veteran Canadian Movies Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Immune to Bullets Noodle Incident Wham Shot Dumb Blonde Pet the Dog Even Evil Has Loved Ones Eldritch Abomination Drives Like Crazy Jerk Jock Police Brutality Sassy Black Woman Vomit Discretion Shot Protagonist Title More Dakka Adapted Out Adaptational Villainy Hate Sink Love Triangle Married to the Job All There in the Manual Dark Reprise Ambiguous Disorder Funny Background Event Gone Horribly Right Curb-Stomp Battle Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Hollywood Darkness Bad Boss Badass Bookworm Those Two Guys Happily Married Parental Neglect Beware the Nice Ones Pyrrhic Victory The X of Y Leitmotif Cool Car She Cleans Up Nicely Sinister Minister No Celebrities Were Harmed Bond One-Liner Villain with Good Publicity Amusing Injuries Monumental Damage Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Deconstruction Time Skip Gory Discretion Shot Posthumous Character A Minor Kidroduction No Antagonist Maybe Ever After Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Dirty Coward "Well Done, Son!" 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