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Hypocrite Match Cut Red Herring This Is Gonna Suck Informed Ability Fiery Redhead Butt-Monkey Small Name, Big Ego Peek-a-Boo Corpse Double-Meaning Title Curb-Stomp Battle Overprotective Dad Obviously Evil One-Man Army Your Head A-Splode Only a Flesh Wound Made of Explodium Book-Ends Groin Attack Enemy Mine Breaking the Fourth Wall Gratuitous English Not So Above It All Cat Fight Establishing Character Moment Mistaken for Gay The X of Y Refuge in Audacity Jitter Cam Actually Pretty Funny Broken Pedestal Parental Substitute Heterosexual Life-Partners I Just Shot Marvin in the Face O.O.C. Is Serious Business As Himself Cain and Abel Sole Survivor Silence Is Golden Villain Protagonist Bald of Evil Bottomless Magazines Training Montage Pretty in Mink The Smurfette Principle Cluster F-Bomb Intrepid Reporter Karma Houdini Soundtrack Dissonance Chewing the Scenery Setting Update Japanese Films Central Theme Deliberate Values Dissonance Berserk Button Big Brother Instinct Offscreen Teleportation Heroic BSoD Papa Wolf Bloodier and Gorier Chekhov's Gun Woman in White Hidden Depths Adaptation Name Change Evil Is Petty Loophole Abuse Despair Event Horizon The Alcoholic No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Spiteful Spit The Bully Cloudcuckoolander Bullying a Dragon He Who Fights Monsters Toplessness from the Back Parental Neglect Works Set in World War II Corpsing Evil Plan My Beloved Smother Only in It for the Money Title Drop Depraved Bisexual The Sociopath Sadistic Choice Manic Pixie Dream Girl Fainting Heel–Face Turn Happily Married Not So Different Stepford Smiler Dark and Troubled Past The '50s Rich Bitch Put on a Bus Only Sane Man As Long as It Sounds Foreign From Nobody to Nightmare Unusually Uninteresting Sight Funny Foreigner Bait-and-Switch Fake Shemp Deadpan Snarker Worthy Opponent Left the Background Music On Fantastic Racism And Starring Interrupted Suicide Narrator Villainous Breakdown Kick the Son of a Bitch Foil Paper-Thin Disguise Manchild Super Strength There Is No Kill Like Overkill Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Pragmatic Adaptation Smug Snake Guns Akimbo Film Noir Motor Mouth Lampshade Hanging Empathic Environment Country Matters The Quiet One Horror Films My Greatest Failure Epic Movie Bunny-Ears Lawyer Playing Gertrude Not What It Looks Like Action Prologue Animated Credits Opening Plot Hole Big Bad Duumvirate Facial Horror Corrupt Corporate Executive Insane Troll Logic Took a Level in Jerkass Almost Kiss timeperiod The '60s Mystery and Detective Films As You Know Married to the Job Precision F-Strike Fire-Forged Friends Shell-Shocked Veteran Skewed Priorities Big Applesauce Villain Ball Failed a Spot Check Adaptational Badass Token Minority The Cavalry Brother–Sister Incest Poor Communication Kills Unusual Euphemism Shipper on Deck Foregone Conclusion Noodle Incident Truth in Television Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Ominous Latin Chanting Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Dark Is Not Evil Ax-Crazy Unreliable Narrator Rated M for Manly Too Dumb to Live '80s Hair Belligerent Sexual Tension Only Known by Their Nickname Adaptation Expansion Costume Porn Villain Opening Scene Well-Intentioned Extremist Determinator Anguished Declaration of Love Documentary Historical-Domain Character Meaningful Name Line-of-Sight Name Exact Words The Stoic Not So Stoic The Dreaded Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Darker and Edgier Black Comedy Make It Look Like an Accident Gone Horribly Right Dissonant Serenity The Hero Dies Take That! Big "NO!" Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Real Life Shower Scene Easily Forgiven Developing Doomed Characters Batman Gambit Animal Motifs Driven to Suicide Beta Couple No Ending Biopic Extremely Short Timespan Those Two Guys Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Protagonist Title Spiritual Successor Alpha Bitch The Alleged Car Death Seeker Broken Bird Sci-Fi Horror She Cleans Up Nicely A Minor Kidroduction The Atoner Femme Fatale Drill Sergeant Nasty Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience The '80s Even Evil Has Loved Ones Fate Worse than Death Taking the Bullet Improbable Aiming Skills Black Comedy Rape After the End Black Best Friend Eureka Moment Chase Scene Leaning on the Fourth Wall British Films Shown Their Work As the Good Book Says... 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Defrosting Ice Queen Gorn Covers Always Lie Madness Mantra Bloodless Carnage Eyepatch of Power Break the Haughty Final Girl Index of Film Westerns Smoking Is Cool Older Than They Look Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Police are Useless Retired Badass May–December Romance Jerkass Historical Hero Upgrade Properly Paranoid The Un-Reveal Dirty Old Man Based on a True Story Affably Evil Broken Aesop Word of God Slashed Throat Big Damn Heroes Non-Indicative Name Eiffel Tower Effect All There in the Script The Power of Love Evil-Detecting Dog Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Expository Hairstyle Change Off with His Head! Never My Fault Brainless Beauty Vitriolic Best Buds Film Series Cool Shades Badass Normal Big Fancy House Mind Screw You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Badass Grandpa Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Disappeared Dad Demoted to Extra Death Glare You Killed My Father Crucified Hero Shot Eldritch Abomination Captain Ersatz Stock Footage Department of Redundancy Department Author Avatar No Name Given Unwitting Instigator of Doom Insult Backfire Science Fiction Films Hell Is That Noise Major Injury Underreaction Hair-Trigger Temper Blatant Lies The Faceless Martial Arts Movie Dying Moment of Awesome Henpecked Husband Hoist by His Own Petard Wretched Hive Lock and Load Montage N-Word Privileges Hong Kong Films Cool Car Stealth Hi/Bye Badass in a Nice Suit No OSHA Compliance Loads and Loads of Characters Artistic License – Geography Genre Throwback Call-Back Cat Scare Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Scare Chord Be Careful What You Wish For Freudian Excuse Genre Savvy Spanner in the Works Determinator aka: The Determinator Police Brutality Italian Films Deus ex Machina Throwing Your Sword Always Works Hope Spot Obfuscating Stupidity Visual Pun Gender Flip Hate Sink Our Zombies Are Different Dutch Angle I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Vacation Films All Just a Dream Evil Is Hammy Improbable Weapon User Anachronic Order Romantic Comedy Hypocritical Humor No Celebrities Were Harmed Mama Bear A Father to His Men Instant Death Bullet Politically Incorrect Villain Captain Obvious Public Domain Feature Films Mugging the Monster Face Death with Dignity She's Got Legs Crapsack World Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday The End... Or Is It? Revenge Hollywood Darkness Together in Death Defiant to the End Camera Abuse Artistic License – Physics Death by Irony Meet Cute My God, What Have I Done? 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Is a Crapshoot Beware the Nice Ones "The Reason You Suck" Speech Funny Background Event Grey and Gray Morality Cool Guns Rule of Symbolism Evil Laugh The Cameo Daylight Horror Deconstruction Evil Sounds Deep Improvised Weapon You Have Failed Me Neck Snap Destination Defenestration Domestic Abuse What the Hell, Hero? Here We Go Again! Yandere Imagine Spot Age Lift Dual Wielding Mercy Kill All for Nothing Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Darkest Hour Taking You with Me Ambiguous Ending Gold Digger Anachronism Stew Combat Pragmatist Amoral Attorney Artistic License – Biology MacGuffin Card-Carrying Villain Antagonist Title Death by Sex Bring My Brown Pants Bolivian Army Ending Nice Guy Black and Gray Morality Posthumous Character Sports Stories Pre-Mortem One-Liner Star-Crossed Lovers Boom, Headshot! Tap on the Head Dark Reprise Adaptational Heroism Jerkass Has a Point Would Hit a Girl Faux Affably Evil Bond Villain Stupidity Have a Gay Old Time What You Are in the Dark Comically Missing the Point Slasher Smile The Stoner Mr. Exposition Celebrity Paradox Ripped from the Headlines Fingore Diabolus ex Machina Adults Are Useless An Arm and a Leg Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Say My Name Product Placement Awesome, but Impractical Jerk Jock Video Credits Those Wacky Nazis French Films Composite Character Meaningful Background Event Sequel Escalation One Steve Limit Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Meaningful Echo Action Girl Didn't Think This Through "Awesome McCool" Name Soft Glass Mighty Whitey Adaptational Attractiveness Really Gets Around Credits Gag Australian Movies Affectionate Parody Large Ham Anyone Can Die Ambiguous Disorder Manipulative Bastard The Brute The Vamp Ghost Fiction Mr. Fanservice Handicapped Badass Eye Scream Heroes Want Redheads Roaring Rampage of Revenge Big Eater The Place Dies Wide Open Would Hurt a Child Aluminum Christmas Trees Beauty Is Never Tarnished Sinister Minister Abhorrent Admirer Does Not Like Shoes "Shaggy Dog" Story Reality Is Unrealistic Adaptational Villainy Honor Before Reason Mood Whiplash Show Within a Show Canon Foreigner Insistent Terminology Bound and Gagged Race Lift Apocalypse How Abusive Parents Brick Joke Stealth Pun Exactly What It Says on the Tin Character Development Blood from the Mouth Kill 'em All Wrong Genre Savvy Film Noir Index Homage Air-Vent Passageway Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Made of Iron German Films Drowning My Sorrows Ironic Echo Rasputinian Death The '70s No Antagonist The Mafia Maybe Ever After The Reveal Famous Last Words Karmic Death Anti-Villain Pay Evil unto Evil Very Loosely Based on a True Story Room Full of Crazy One-Word Title Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold All Girls Want Bad Boys Trailers Always Spoil Good Is Not Nice Cold-Blooded Torture Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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