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Woman Scorned Sequel Escalation The '70s Ambiguous Disorder From Nobody to Nightmare Celebrity Paradox Leave the Camera Running As You Know May–December Romance Early-Bird Cameo Mr. Fanservice Alliterative Name Your Cheating Heart Mythology Gag Improvised Weapon Took a Level in Badass Married to the Job Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Evil Is Petty Demoted to Extra Setting Update Narrator Butt-Monkey Big "NO!" The Chick Fire-Forged Friends Military and Warfare Films Improbable Aiming Skills Token Minority Gold Digger Pre-Mortem One-Liner Villain Protagonist Fake Shemp Dressing as the Enemy Serial Killer Danny Peary Cult Movies List Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Alas, Poor Villain Roaring Rampage of Revenge All for Nothing The Cameo Precision F-Strike Bury Your Gays Redshirt Army Pyrrhic Victory Super Strength The Ditz Bloodier and Gorier Manipulative Bastard War Is Hell True Companions Older Than They Look Malevolent Masked Men The Quiet One Reality Ensues Superhero Four-Temperament Ensemble Important Haircut Romantic False Lead Fourth Date Marriage Light Is Not Good Five-Man Band Big Brother Instinct Video Credits Wicked Cultured Hooker with a Heart of Gold Earn Your Happy Ending Offscreen Moment of Awesome Punny Name Dual Wielding Black Best Friend Punch-Clock Villain Mood Whiplash The Starscream Ax-Crazy It Will Never Catch On Flashback Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Sequel Hook Becoming the Mask Skewed Priorities Make It Look Like an Accident Non-Indicative Name Adaptation Expansion Rated M for Manly Throwing Your Sword Always Works Vampire Fiction Back from the Dead Obviously Evil Gratuitous English Country Matters Genre Savvy Hope Spot Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Double-Meaning Title Faux Affably Evil In Medias Res Scary Black Man Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Parental Neglect Dumb Blonde Visual Pun Accidental Murder Slashed Throat Christmas Movies Index Not What It Looks Like Card-Carrying Villain The '50s Irony Russian Films Early Installment Weirdness As Long as It Sounds Foreign More Dakka Fantasy Films N-Word Privileges A Minor Kidroduction Death Glare Only in It for the Money Historical Hero Upgrade Stepford Smiler Market-Based Title Closed Circle Only One Name Bunny-Ears Lawyer Karmic Death No-Sell Monumental Damage Hell Is That Noise Distracted by the Sexy Death by Adaptation Depraved Bisexual Character Development Dark Is Not Evil Parental Substitute The Faceless Adaptational Attractiveness Rule of Cool Camera Abuse Mad Scientist Silent Movie Annoying Younger Sibling Adults Are Useless Expository Hairstyle Change Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Re-Cut Pretty in Mink Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Anachronism Stew Laser-Guided Karma Curse Cut Short Karma Houdini Never Found the Body Jerk with a Heart of Gold Anyone Can Die The Big Guy Guns Akimbo Shell-Shocked Veteran Good Is Not Nice Wrong Genre Savvy Truth in Television Aside Glance My God, What Have I Done? 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Fanservice Extra Peek-a-Boo Corpse Police are Useless Conspicuous CG He Who Fights Monsters Dramatic Gun Cock Male Frontal Nudity Dark and Troubled Past Dramedy Establishing Character Moment Kids Are Cruel Dark Action Girl Zombie Stories Papa Wolf Bland-Name Product Genre Throwback Star-Crossed Lovers Tagline Mercy Kill Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas "The Reason You Suck" Speech The Hero Dies Grey and Gray Morality Bottomless Magazines Evil-Detecting Dog Foreshadowing Small Name, Big Ego Take That! Ass Shove Maybe Ever After Bowdlerise Ominous Latin Chanting Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Stoner Historical Villain Upgrade Imagine Spot Spiteful Spit Plucky Comic Relief Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Up to Eleven Meaningful Background Event Gilligan Cut Easily Forgiven Captain Obvious Abusive Parents Extreme Doormat Naïve Newcomer Psychopathic Manchild '80s Hair Room Full of Crazy O.O.C. 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Shut Up, Hannibal! Final Girl Dies Wide Open "Well Done, Son!" Guy Dwindling Party Obstructive Bureaucrat Tranquil Fury Due to the Dead Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Sci-Fi Horror Shipper on Deck Film Series Badass in a Nice Suit The Atoner Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Red Eyes, Take Warning Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Toplessness from the Back B-Movie Not So Stoic Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Empathic Environment Mystery and Detective Films Men Are the Expendable Gender Beware the Nice Ones Manic Pixie Dream Girl I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Bolivian Army Ending Brick Joke Death of a Child Rule of Symbolism Morality Pet Genre Shift Disappeared Dad Deliberately Monochrome Bloodless Carnage Ghost Fiction Real Life Kick the Son of a Bitch Dying Moment of Awesome Real Life Writes the Plot Parental Incest MacGuffin Death by Sex Damsel in Distress Big Applesauce Catapult Nightmare Artistic License – Geography Broken Aesop Downer Ending From Bad to Worse Freeze-Frame Bonus Cold-Blooded Torture Red Oni, Blue Oni Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The Voiceless One-Man Army Nothing Is Scarier Artistic License – Biology Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Cool Car The Bully Blood Knight Darkest Hour Epic Movie Japanese Films Love Triangle Heroic Sacrifice Crazy-Prepared Shower Scene Training Montage In Name Only Freudian Excuse In the Back No Ending I Have Your Wife Book-Ends Whole Plot Reference Rape as Drama Product Placement Comically Missing the Point Ungrateful Bastard All There in the Script Cloudcuckoolander Major Injury Underreaction Bar Brawl Pragmatic Adaptation My Beloved Smother Kill It with Fire Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass French Films Action Prologue Big Bad Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Badass Grandpa Arc Words Say My Name Affectionate Parody The '60s Every Car Is a Pinto Science Fiction Films Woman in White Random Events Plot Evil Sounds Deep Yandere The Ace Taking the Bullet Moment Killer Aluminum Christmas Trees Loads and Loads of Characters Death Seeker Pet the Dog Interrupted Suicide The Stinger This Is Gonna Suck Belligerent Sexual Tension Pimped-Out Dress Motor Mouth Poor Communication Kills Animal Title Index Friend to All Children Eiffel Tower Effect Domestic Abuse Foregone Conclusion Overly Long Gag Soundtrack Dissonance Wham Line Mundane Made Awesome Smoking Is Cool Funny Background Event Animal Motifs Evil Brit Shirtless Scene Catch-Phrase Eagleland Attempted Rape Leaning on the Fourth Wall Badass Boast There Is No Kill Like Overkill Dirty Coward Hoist by His Own Petard Award-Bait Song Sexy Discretion Shot Soft Glass Broken Pedestal Hong Kong Films Mugging the Monster A Date with Rosie Palms Vomit Discretion Shot Dissonant Serenity Author Avatar Extremely Short Timespan Unreliable Narrator Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Adaptational Badass Suddenly SHOUTING! The Reveal Pretty Little Headshots Mr. Exposition Central Theme Broken Bird German Films Dark Reprise "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Only a Flesh Wound Manly Tears Vitriolic Best Buds The Alcoholic Never My Fault Dirty Cop Brother–Sister Incest Combat Pragmatist Chewing the Scenery I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Scare Chord Playing Gertrude Epic Fail The Oner Apocalypse How What Happened to the Mouse? Curb-Stomp Battle Very Loosely Based on a True Story Riddle for the Ages Stealth Pun The Dreaded He Knows Too Much Wham Shot Nice Hat Green-Eyed Monster Eureka Moment Ascended Extra Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Dirty Old Man Determinator aka: The Determinator Too Dumb to Live Gory Discretion Shot Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Translation Convention Grievous Bottley Harm What You Are in the Dark Defrosting Ice Queen Kick the Dog Captain Ersatz Revenge Air-Vent Passageway Hypocrite Canon Foreigner All There in the Manual Meaningful Name Stealth Hi/Bye Not So Above It All Laughing Mad Male Gaze Ambiguously Gay Dutch Angle A.I. Is a Crapshoot Ripped from the Headlines Fantastic Racism Cassandra Truth Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Hero Antagonist Bring My Brown Pants The Place The '90s The Casanova Retirony Bald of Evil Made of Explodium Did Not Get the Girl Car Fu Spanner in the Works Happily Married Lighter and Softer Off with His Head! Cain and Abel Hollywood Darkness Alpha Bitch Ms. Fanservice Knife Nut Defiant to the End Retcon Creator Cameo Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? You Killed My Father Camp Gay The Smurfette Principle Gone Horribly Right Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Sir Swears-a-Lot Horror Films Call-Back Spell My Name with an "S" Beta Couple Slasher Movie Almost Kiss Continuity Nod Rasputinian Death Spiritual Successor Creative Closing Credits Honor Before Reason Well-Intentioned Extremist Fingore Properly Paranoid Historical-Domain Character Brutal Honesty Henpecked Husband Jump Scare My Greatest Failure Determinator Paper-Thin Disguise Handicapped Badass Famous Last Words 20 Minutes into the Future Have a Gay Old Time Jerkass Has a Point Bond Villain Stupidity Does This Remind You of Anything? Martial Arts Movie Screw the Money, I Have Rules! No Good Deed Goes Unpunished One Steve Limit Bloody Hilarious Show Within a Show Film Noir Index Running Gag Heterosexual Life-Partners Chase Scene Agony of the Feet Those Wacky Nazis Recycled IN SPACE! Dogged Nice Guy Action Genre No OSHA Compliance Funny Foreigner Beard of Evil Love at First Sight As the Good Book Says... Big Fancy House Canadian Movies Does Not Like Shoes "Awesome McCool" Name How We Got Here Adorkable Artistic License – Gun Safety Anti-Hero Serious Business Humans Are Bastards Bond One-Liner Undying Loyalty Big-Bad Ensemble Kubrick Stare Adaptation Dye-Job Driven to Suicide Badass Normal Action Girl Children Are Innocent Arranged Marriage Insane Troll Logic Lock and Load Montage Frame-Up Eye Scream Implacable Man Cruel and Unusual Death Drives Like Crazy The Chessmaster Disproportionate Retribution Department of Redundancy Department Awesome, but Impractical Title Drop Once More, with Clarity! Redemption Equals Death Cool Guns Adaptation Name Change Jerk Jock What the Hell, Hero? Pay Evil unto Evil Bad "Bad Acting" Crucified Hero Shot Batman Gambit Casting Gag Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Fiery Redhead Thriller Decoy Protagonist Stylistic Suck It's Personal Idiot Ball Chekhov's Gunman folderlabel Bad Boss Bait-and-Switch Half the Man He Used to Be Heroes Want Redheads Daylight Horror Bavarian Fire Drill Stalker with a Crush Rewatch Bonus Author Appeal Exact Words Word of God Reality Has No Subtitles Adapted Out Film Noir Unwitting Instigator of Doom Naked People Are Funny Bare Your Midriff Drowning My Sorrows Suspiciously Similar Substitute Red Shirt The Lost Lenore Totally Radical Index of Film Westerns A God Am I Large Ham Heroic BSoD The X of Y Madness Mantra Diabolus ex Machina Be Careful What You Wish For Sinister Minister Last-Name Basis Worthy Opponent Reckless Gun Usage Names to Run Away from Really Fast Rule of Three Break the Cutie Deconstruction Leitmotif An Aesop Big Damn Heroes Let's Get Dangerous! Plot Hole Double Entendre Blatant Lies Hair-Trigger Temper The Lancer And the Adventure Continues Wounded Gazelle Gambit Public Domain Feature Films You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Better to Die than Be Killed Amoral Attorney Deliberate Values Dissonance Disguised in Drag Jitter Cam Fatal Family Photo Hidden Depths Stuff Blowing Up Slasher Smile Hate Sink Age Lift Darker and Edgier Cat Scare Chiaroscuro Black Comedy Rape Evil vs. Evil Novelization Eyepatch of Power Refuge in Audacity Guile Hero Neck Lift Anachronic Order Cool Shades Protagonist Title No-Holds-Barred Beatdown And I Must Scream Fan Disservice Breaking the Fourth Wall Facial Horror Fun with Acronyms Adaptational Heroism Big Bad Duumvirate Unusual Euphemism Villain Song Covers Always Lie The Remake Dull Surprise Adult Fear Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Cool Old Guy Mind Screw The '80s The End... Or Is It? Artistic License – History Mistaken for Gay