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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Berserk Button Pragmatic Villainy Friend to All Children Bond Villain Stupidity Adapted Out No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Skewed Priorities Big Applesauce Not So Stoic Revenge Comically Missing the Point Hell Is That Noise Insult Backfire Maybe Ever After Accidental Misnaming No Ending Wounded Gazelle Gambit Manic Pixie Dream Girl Undying Loyalty Face–Heel Turn I Did What I Had to Do Pimped-Out Dress Jitter Cam Meaningful Background Event Totally Radical Dirty Cop Dark Action Girl Determinator Military and Warfare Films Eureka Moment There Is No Kill Like Overkill Our Zombies Are Different Dwindling Party Intrepid Reporter Stylistic Suck Villainous Breakdown My Greatest Failure Evil vs. Evil Dressing as the Enemy Ghost Fiction Affably Evil Actor Allusion Central Theme Heroes Want Redheads Groin Attack Armor-Piercing Question Bavarian Fire Drill Overly Long Gag Never My Fault Dramedy Action Prologue Blood from the Mouth Kick the Dog Poor Communication Kills Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Foil Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Fanservice Scenery Gorn Dying Moment of Awesome Sexy Discretion Shot Film Noir Index Line-of-Sight Name Slap-Slap-Kiss Taking You with Me You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Everyone Has Standards Works Set in World War II Random Events Plot Henpecked Husband Nice Guy Celebrity Paradox Deus ex Machina Large Ham Heroic BSoD Antagonist Title Only in It for the Money Costume Porn It's Personal Meaningful Name Bloody Hilarious Names to Run Away from Really Fast "The Reason You Suck" Speech Politically Incorrect Villain The Stinger As Long as It Sounds Foreign Spiteful Spit Madness Mantra Butt-Monkey The Sociopath Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Chase Scene Whole Plot Reference The Un-Reveal Thriller Genre Savvy Catch-Phrase Fantastic Racism Wicked Cultured Canon Foreigner Recycled IN SPACE! Death by Irony Offscreen Teleportation Gainax Ending The Hero The Vamp Fan Disservice Bloodier and Gorier Slashed Throat Mind Screw Stepford Smiler Pyrrhic Victory Market-Based Title Defrosting Ice Queen Fingore Early-Bird Cameo Deadpan Snarker Adaptation Dye-Job Reality Is Unrealistic Video Credits One-Word Title N-Word Privileges Romantic False Lead Dark Is Not Evil Last-Name Basis Not What It Looks Like Badass Longcoat Cowboy Cop Kubrick Stare Protagonist Title Romantic Comedy Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Idiot Ball Smoking Is Cool Unreliable Narrator Humiliation Conga Bare Your Midriff Re-Cut Sequel Hook Cassandra Truth Decoy Protagonist Plot Hole Abhorrent Admirer Tranquil Fury Scary Black Man Evil Counterpart Self-Deprecation Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Male Gaze Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Historical In-Joke Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Handicapped Badass Rated M for Manly Drill Sergeant Nasty The Lancer Hate Sink Breaking the Fourth Wall Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Mistaken for Gay Fatal Flaw Wham Shot Knife Nut Despair Event Horizon Martial Arts Movie Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Black Best Friend Laser-Guided Karma Off-into-the-Distance Ending Darker and Edgier Made of Explodium Big Damn Heroes Dropped a Bridge on Him Belligerent Sexual Tension Hope Spot Not Using the "Z" Word Sports Stories Cruel and Unusual Death Deal with the Devil Artistic License – Gun Safety Jerk Jock Unusual Euphemism Christmas Movies Index Lock and Load Montage Gold Digger Distracted by the Sexy Villain Opening Scene Action Girl Scare Chord Rule of Cool Moment Killer Alas, Poor Villain Needs Wiki Magic Love Bad "Bad Acting" Fourth Date Marriage Silence Is Golden Ass Shove Guile Hero No Name Given German Films It's All About Me Good Is Not Nice Arch-Enemy Badass Grandpa Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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The '50s Alpha Bitch Brainless Beauty Defiant to the End The Bad Guy Wins Punny Name Badass in a Nice Suit No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Gone Horribly Right Bilingual Bonus MacGuffin The Load Big Bad Duumvirate Bring My Brown Pants Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Amoral Attorney Would Hurt a Child Insane Troll Logic Same Language Dub Jerkass Has a Point Badass Boast Redshirt Army Face Death with Dignity Failed a Spot Check A Father to His Men Wrong Genre Savvy A Date with Rosie Palms Becoming the Mask Shower Scene Public Domain Feature Films Sir Swears-a-Lot Anguished Declaration of Love Disappeared Dad O.O.C. Is Serious Business Death of a Child Gorn Double Entendre Affectionate Parody '80s Hair Only Known by Their Nickname Spared by the Adaptation Black Comedy Rape Break the Cutie Dogged Nice Guy Black and Gray Morality Naked People Are Funny Together in Death Manchild Faking the Dead Sci-Fi Horror Easily Forgiven Anti-Hero Demoted to Extra Cold-Blooded Torture Tempting Fate Famous Last Words Shipper on Deck The Ditz Soft Glass Epic Fail Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Here We Go Again! Almost Kiss Vacation Films Crazy Jealous Guy Shout-Out Historical Villain Upgrade The Place Taking the Bullet Fantasy Films Heel–Face Turn Chekhov's Gunman Imagine Spot An Aesop Heterosexual Life-Partners Brick Joke Even Evil Has Standards Hooker with a Heart of Gold She Cleans Up Nicely Woman Scorned An Arm and a Leg Parental Incest Dramatic Gun Cock Television Movie Index Dirty Coward Big Eater Beta Couple Redemption Equals Death Naïve Newcomer Superhero Chiaroscuro Anti-Villain Up to Eleven Death Seeker Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Driven to Suicide Mr. Fanservice Properly Paranoid Shut Up, Hannibal! Biopic The Chick You Have Failed Me The Smart Guy Hong Kong Films For the Evulz War Is Hell Villain with Good Publicity Villain Song The Dragon Chekhov's Skill Morality Pet Cain and Abel Intergenerational Friendship Kill It with Fire Yandere Australian Movies Eagleland Blood Knight Spell My Name with an "S" Real Life Fat Bastard Captain Ersatz All Girls Want Bad Boys Novelization Eiffel Tower Effect In Medias Res Arranged Marriage BFG Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Stock Footage Canadian Movies Adaptation Expansion I Have Your Wife Curb-Stomp Battle Ax-Crazy Loads and Loads of Characters Tagline Back from the Dead Ambiguous Ending Call-Forward Rasputinian Death Not So Different Translation Convention Contrived Coincidence Daddy's Girl Does This Remind You of Anything? Creepy Child Sadistic Choice Facial Horror Broken Pedestal Accidental Murder Coming-of-Age Story Domestic Abuse Obviously Evil Curse Cut Short Mad Scientist Bait-and-Switch Ship Tease The Smurfette Principle Left the Background Music On You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Creative Closing Credits Sanity Slippage Not So Above It All Disguised in Drag Let's Get Dangerous! Wham Line Stealth Hi/Bye Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Really Gets Around Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The '70s Broken Aesop Badass Normal Combat Pragmatist Ominous Latin Chanting The Dog Bites Back Blackmail Victoria's Secret Compartment Cat Scare Attempted Rape Cloudcuckoolander Trailers Always Spoil Deliberately Monochrome Aluminum Christmas Trees Action Genre Kill 'em All Unresolved Sexual Tension Freudian Excuse Gilligan Cut Serious Business Pet the Dog Refuge in Audacity You Killed My Father Irony The Hero Dies Those Two Guys Retcon Crapsack World Break the Haughty Took a Level in Badass Those Wacky Nazis Femme Fatale The Ace Danny Peary Cult Movies List Missing Mom Advertised Extra