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Anguished Declaration of Love Affably Evil Shut Up, Hannibal! Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Sole Survivor Chiaroscuro Badass Normal Double Entendre Christmas Movies Index Improbable Weapon User Darkest Hour Random Events Plot Artistic License – Military Defiant to the End All There in the Manual Spiteful Spit A Date with Rosie Palms Covers Always Lie Hero Antagonist Double-Meaning Title Author Appeal Happily Married From Bad to Worse Really Gets Around Zombie Stories Film Noir Index Irony I Did What I Had to Do Pre-Mortem One-Liner More Dakka Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Villain Ball Worthy Opponent Exact Words Amoral Attorney The Chessmaster Dumb Blonde Heroic BSoD N-Word Privileges Victoria's Secret Compartment Vacation Films Extreme Doormat The '70s Ass Shove "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Twist Ending Beta Couple Alas, Poor Villain O.O.C. Is Serious Business Destination Defenestration Tranquil Fury Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Black and Gray Morality Sassy Black Woman Fantasy Films Say My Name Token Minority Yandere Bar Brawl The Remake All There in the Script Playing Gertrude The '90s Death of a Child Adaptational Heroism Good Is Not Nice The Power of Love Developing Doomed Characters Betty and Veronica Belligerent Sexual Tension Film Series Would Hurt a Child Demoted to Extra Bloody Hilarious Same Language Dub Evil Counterpart Disguised in Drag Big Bad Amusing Injuries The Alleged Car Idiot Ball The Load Deal with the Devil Smoking Is Cool Psychological Thriller Comically Missing the Point Spanner in the Works Imagine Spot Actor Allusion Heroes Want Redheads Married to the Job Stuff Blowing Up Dramatic Irony Adaptation Name Change One-Man Army The Quiet One Celebrity Paradox Bound and Gagged Mooks Anachronic Order Slasher Smile 20 Minutes into the Future Ironic Echo Sealed Evil in a Can Dwindling Party The Cameo Fainting The Great Depression Alpha Bitch Gory Discretion Shot Gold Digger Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Slasher Movie Scary Black Man Works Set in World War II Not So Different Shirtless Scene Cat Fight Pragmatic Villainy Adaptation Distillation Creative Closing Credits Poor Communication Kills Pimped-Out Dress Woman Scorned Shell-Shocked Veteran Gilligan Cut The Hero Captain Obvious Never Trust a Trailer Wham Line Science Fiction Films Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Cluster F-Bomb Never My Fault No Celebrities Were Harmed Gorn Bait-and-Switch Arch-Enemy Vampire Fiction timeperiod The '50s Rule of Funny Dramatic Gun Cock How We Got Here Implacable Man Curb-Stomp Battle Love Triangle folderlabel Narrator Country Matters Mood Whiplash Air-Vent Passageway And Starring Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Rule of Cool Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Cool Old Guy Bolivian Army Ending Together in Death Setting Update A Minor Kidroduction Curse Cut Short Suspiciously Specific Denial Bullying a Dragon Totally Radical Chekhov's Gun Meaningful Echo Central Theme Bottomless Magazines B-Movie The Dreaded Reasonable Authority Figure Super Strength Shower Scene Stylistic Suck Only in It for the Money Death by Sex Race Lift Downer Ending Offscreen Teleportation Word of God Straight Gay Suspiciously Similar Substitute Evil Laugh Everyone Has Standards The Brute Not Using the "Z" Word Let's Get Dangerous! Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Eldritch Abomination Big "NO!" Face Death with Dignity I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Loophole Abuse Every Car Is a Pinto Papa Wolf Advertised Extra Japanese Films There Is No Kill Like Overkill Bowdlerise Offscreen Moment of Awesome Retcon Funny Foreigner Precision F-Strike Foil Rule of Three Sequel Escalation Manchild Groin Attack Deliberate Values Dissonance Department of Redundancy Department She's Got Legs Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Pretty in Mink Facial Horror Hooker with a Heart of Gold Intrepid Reporter Take a Third Option Fan Disservice Overprotective Dad Oh, Crap! The Atoner Does This Remind You of Anything? The Dragon Catch-Phrase Military and Warfare Films Anti-Villain The Ace Italian Films Fantastic Racism Fanservice Extra Too Dumb to Live Bad "Bad Acting" Asshole Victim Plucky Comic Relief Bad Boss Only One Name Mr. Fanservice The Stoner No OSHA Compliance Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Not So Stoic Gainax Ending Boom, Headshot! Skewed Priorities Death Glare Psycho for Hire "The Reason You Suck" Speech In Medias Res Beauty Is Never Tarnished Took a Level in Badass Biopic Distracted by the Sexy It's Personal Flipping the Bird Flashback Aside Glance Suddenly SHOUTING! Pragmatic Adaptation Body Horror May–December Romance Punny Name Half the Man He Used to Be Recycled IN SPACE! A.I. Is a Crapshoot Not What It Looks Like Artistic License – Physics Vomit Discretion Shot Dramedy Roaring Rampage of Revenge Psychopathic Manchild Kids Are Cruel Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Neck Snap Dutch Angle Ungrateful Bastard No Ending Attempted Rape Mighty Whitey Bloodier and Gorier Music Stories Dirty Old Man Deconstruction Madness Mantra French Films Gratuitous English The Place Ax-Crazy Badass in a Nice Suit Horror Comedy Catapult Nightmare Handicapped Badass Sir Swears-a-Lot Soundtrack Dissonance '80s Hair Parental Neglect Superhero Blackmail Artistic License – Geography Reality Ensues Plot Hole Failed a Spot Check Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? The Oner He Who Fights Monsters The Stinger My Beloved Smother Peek-a-Boo Corpse Shout-Out Evil Is Petty The Vamp Get Out! An Axe to Grind Maybe Ever After Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Dirty Cop Training Montage Your Head A-Splode Evil-Detecting Dog Last-Name Basis Rich Bitch Unresolved Sexual Tension Killed Mid-Sentence Important Haircut The Bad Guy Wins Sacrificial Lion Decoy Protagonist Only a Flesh Wound The Alcoholic Mistaken for Gay British Films Action Prologue Grey and Gray Morality Broken Pedestal Naked People Are Funny Heel–Face Turn Arc Words Meaningful Name Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Author Avatar Silent Movie One Steve Limit World of Ham Even Evil Has Loved Ones Conspicuous CG Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Guns Akimbo Manipulative Bastard Domestic Abuse Artistic License – History Batman Gambit Awesome, but Impractical Re-Cut Big Bad Duumvirate Nice Guy Scenery Gorn Mind Screw Camp Gay Deliberately Monochrome Brutal Honesty Rule of Symbolism Lighter and Softer Disney Villain Death Scare Chord Running Gag An Aesop Brick Joke Red Eyes, Take Warning Even Evil Has Standards Creepy Child Tap on the Head Broken Bird Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique You Killed My Father Friend to All Children Jerkass Take That! Action Survivor Adults Are Useless Ship Tease The Big Guy Unreliable Narrator Accidental Misnaming Coming-of-Age Story Pay Evil unto Evil And the Adventure Continues Affectionate Parody Hero of Another Story Those Two Bad Guys Disproportionate Retribution An Arm and a Leg Show Within a Show Obviously Evil Animated Credits Opening Abusive Parents Film Noir Kill It with Fire Took a Level in Jerkass I Have Your Wife Rewatch Bonus Black Comedy Rape Villain with Good Publicity BFG Dropped a Bridge on Him The Ghost German Films Genre Savvy Vitriolic Best Buds Hell Is That Noise Drives Like Crazy Vomit Indiscretion Shot Shipper on Deck Diabolus ex Machina Major Injury Underreaction Black Dude Dies First Video Credits Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Captain Ersatz Truth in Television Dressing as the Enemy Punch-Clock Villain Stealth Pun Cool Old Lady Dirty Coward Expository Hairstyle Change Continuity Nod Big-Bad Ensemble She Cleans Up Nicely Mystery and Detective Films Fun with Acronyms Big Brother Instinct Accidental Murder Overly Long Gag Exactly What It Says on the Tin Mr. Exposition Index of Film Westerns Ambiguous Ending Extremely Short Timespan Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Did Not Get the Girl Real Life Writes the Plot Dark Action Girl Redshirt Army Crazy Jealous Guy Historical Villain Upgrade Gone Horribly Right Face–Heel Turn Laser-Guided Karma Evil Brit Call-Forward Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Made of Explodium Cool Car Bare Your Midriff Wounded Gazelle Gambit As Himself Serious Business Chase Scene Canadian Movies Big Applesauce In the Back You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Improvised Weapon Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Nice Hat Russian Films Break the Haughty Villain Song Animal Motifs Not Quite Dead Action Genre Mad Scientist Knife Nut Authority Equals Asskicking Car Fu Room Full of Crazy Silence Is Golden Closed Circle Malevolent Masked Men Heroic Sacrifice Four-Temperament Ensemble Thriller Epic Fail Fate Worse than Death Determinator aka: The Determinator You Have Failed Me Screw the Money, I Have Rules! "Well Done, Son!" Guy Arranged Marriage Badass Longcoat Costume Porn Cowboy Cop Badass Grandpa Frame-Up Karma Houdini Greater-Scope Villain Age Lift Adult Fear Cassandra Truth Big Damn Heroes Martial Arts Movie My God, What Have I Done? 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Mama Bear Getting Crap Past the Radar Your Cheating Heart Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Cat Scare War Is Hell Red Shirt Beware the Nice Ones Undying Loyalty Star-Crossed Lovers Parental Abandonment Missing Mom Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Jerkass Has a Point Pre-Asskicking One-Liner He Knows Too Much Better to Die than Be Killed Fanservice True Companions Chekhov's Skill Leitmotif Dark Is Not Evil The Musical Large Ham Politically Incorrect Villain Casting Gag Black Comedy Hair-Trigger Temper Moment Killer Villain Protagonist Noodle Incident Hypocritical Humor Armor-Piercing Question Based on a True Story Very Loosely Based on a True Story Mugging the Monster Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Intergenerational Friendship Combat Pragmatist Easily Forgiven Artistic License – Biology The Hero Dies Posthumous Character Informed Ability Rasputinian Death Toplessness from the Back Our Zombies Are Different Black Best Friend Badass Boast Reality Is Unrealistic Jump Scare Adorkable Fire-Forged Friends Humiliation Conga Historical In-Joke Spared by the Adaptation Dying Moment of Awesome The Film of the Book Homage Alliterative Name It Can Think Children Are Innocent Documentary Stock Footage Improbable Aiming Skills Public Domain Feature Films Storming the Castle Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Hate Sink Anyone Can Die Canon Foreigner Genre Throwback The Sociopath No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Back from the Dead Jerk with a Heart of Gold Demonic Possession Famous Last Words Not Even Bothering with the Accent Sadistic Choice Cool Guns The Smurfette Principle Credits Gag Depraved Bisexual Red Right Hand Stepford Smiler Visual Pun "Shaggy Dog" Story Darker and Edgier Epic Movie Camera Abuse Spell My Name with an "S" Bittersweet Ending Made of Iron Villain Opening Scene Kill 'em All Off with His Head! Ambiguously Gay Bloodless Carnage Beard of Evil Horror Films Cool Shades Here We Go Again! For Want of a Nail Freeze-Frame Bonus The Lost Lenore Death by Irony Cold-Blooded Torture Would Hit a Girl Expy Reality Has No Subtitles Artistic License – Law Determinator Redemption Equals Death Femme Fatale Adaptation Dye-Job Blatant Lies The '80s Up to Eleven The Smart Guy The Mafia Framing Device Match Cut Hollywood Darkness Self-Deprecation Unspoken Plan Guarantee Pet the Dog Dogged Nice Guy Instant Death Bullet Evil Plan Trailers Always Spoil Bald of Evil Off-into-the-Distance Ending Light Is Not Good Smug Snake Man on Fire Ambiguous Disorder Genre Shift Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Only Known by Their Nickname Monumental Damage No Name Given Tempting Fate Never Found the Body Daddy's Girl Eiffel Tower Effect Ghost Fiction Insult Backfire Cloudcuckoolander Scenery Porn Dies Wide Open Title Drop Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping The Starscream Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! And I Must Scream Mexican Standoff Line-of-Sight Name From Nobody to Nightmare Sanity Slippage Hidden Depths This Is Gonna Suck I'm a Humanitarian Bond One-Liner Those Wacky Nazis All Men Are Perverts Cain and Abel The X of Y Outrun the Fireball You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Evil Sounds Deep Deadpan Snarker Funny Background Event Be Careful What You Wish For Corrupt Corporate Executive The Faceless Five-Man Band Eye Scream Older Than They Look All Just a Dream Reckless Gun Usage The Reveal Adaptation Expansion Spiritual Successor Taking You with Me Chewing the Scenery Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds It Will Never Catch On Put on a Bus Hoist by His Own Petard Humans Are Bastards Paper-Thin Disguise Establishing Character Moment Heterosexual Life-Partners Not So Above It All Berserk Button Protagonist Title Hope Spot Time Skip The Bully Our Vampires Are Different Enemy Mine Babies Ever After Dark and Troubled Past Death by Adaptation Faking the Dead A God Am I Anti-Hero Ominous Latin Chanting Once More, with Clarity! The Dog Bites Back Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Dual Wielding As You Know Stealth Hi/Bye Butt-Monkey Annoying Younger Sibling Hong Kong Films Action Girl Nothing Is Scarier The Casanova Red Oni, Blue Oni The Mole Manly Tears Badass Bookworm Ascended Extra All Girls Want Bad Boys Lampshade Hanging Well-Intentioned Extremist Fatal Flaw The Chick Lock and Load Montage Motor Mouth Bring My Brown Pants No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Anachronism Stew The Un-Reveal Foregone Conclusion Morality Pet Stalker with a Crush All for Nothing Agony of the Feet Unusually Uninteresting Sight Henpecked Husband Market-Based Title Mercy Kill No Antagonist Crazy-Prepared Romantic False Lead Becoming the Mask Leaning on the Fourth Wall Karmic Death What Happened to the Mouse? Brother–Sister Incest Kick the Son of a Bitch Dissonant Serenity Product Placement Sinister Minister Only Sane Man Neck Lift Kick the Dog Shown Their Work Eureka Moment Romantic Comedy Ms. Fanservice