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Disappeared Dad Bury Your Gays Meaningful Name Artistic License – Military Shirtless Scene Despair Event Horizon Fainting Black Comedy Rape Dogged Nice Guy What You Are in the Dark Fate Worse than Death Cool Old Lady I Have Your Wife Historical Hero Upgrade Easily Forgiven Shout-Out Artistic License – Law Covers Always Lie Unusually Uninteresting Sight Tap on the Head Did Not Get the Girl 20 Minutes into the Future Villain Song Not What It Looks Like Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Blackmail Logo Joke Red Right Hand Unusual Euphemism The Musical Demoted to Extra Kill It with Fire Plot Hole Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Hero of Another Story Stylistic Suck Deliberately Monochrome Gold Digger Badass in a Nice Suit Star-Crossed Lovers Eagleland Cassandra Truth Offscreen Moment of Awesome Chase Scene Rasputinian Death Anti-Hero Bait-and-Switch Dumb Blonde No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Driven to Suicide Kubrick Stare Curb-Stomp Battle Stealth Pun Black Dude Dies First The Oner Undying Loyalty Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Awesome, but Impractical Disproportionate Retribution Badass Grandpa Stepford Smiler Break the Haughty Make It Look Like an Accident Bloody Hilarious Distracted by the Sexy Same Language Dub The Remake Idiot Ball Casting Gag Here We Go Again! Dying Moment of Awesome Motor Mouth Intergenerational Friendship Canadian Movies Bittersweet Ending Extreme Doormat Broken Bird The Film of the Book Obstructive Bureaucrat I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Good Is Not Nice Rewatch Bonus Gender Flip Lighter and Softer Sacrificial Lion All There in the Manual Let's Get Dangerous! Psychopathic Manchild Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Unreliable Narrator Black Best Friend Dwindling Party Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Dutch Angle Woman in White It Can Think Adaptation Name Change Bottomless Magazines Canon Foreigner Shoot the Shaggy Dog Gone Horribly Right Establishing Character Moment Suddenly SHOUTING! Genre Shift Smoking Is Cool Death by Sex Artistic License – History Black Comedy Gratuitous English Race Lift Bar Brawl Leitmotif Book-Ends Mr. Fanservice Ascended Extra Bilingual Bonus Bring My Brown Pants Italian Films Depraved Bisexual Rule of Funny Last-Name Basis Deconstruction Ghost Fiction Humans Are Bastards Romantic False Lead Peek-a-Boo Corpse Offscreen Teleportation Product Placement It Will Never Catch On Shipper on Deck Not So Stoic Gainax Ending Serial Killer Gory Discretion Shot A.I. Is a Crapshoot You Have Failed Me Stuff Blowing Up Only a Flesh Wound Knight Templar Daddy's Girl The Dog Bites Back Lampshade Hanging Our Zombies Are Different The Smart Guy Adaptation Dye-Job Drowning My Sorrows Too Dumb to Live "Well Done, Son!" Guy Room Full of Crazy Due to the Dead Needs Wiki Magic Love Revenge Sinister Minister The Ditz Victoria's Secret Compartment Together in Death Slasher Smile Adaptation Expansion One-Word Title Dark Is Not Evil An Arm and a Leg Scenery Gorn Slap-Slap-Kiss Sci-Fi Horror Arc Words MacGuffin Fake Shemp Big "NO!" Kids Are Cruel Get Out! Action Genre The Vamp Slasher Movie Epic Fail Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Index of Film Westerns Obviously Evil Guns Akimbo Car Fu Small Name, Big Ego Take a Third Option Adult Fear "The Reason You Suck" Speech Oh, Crap! Martial Arts Movie Not Quite Dead Hooker with a Heart of Gold Humiliation Conga Pretty in Mink La Résistance Award-Bait Song Alpha Bitch Fun with Acronyms Faux Affably Evil Abusive Parents Meaningful Background Event Flashback Deus ex Machina One-Man Army Wicked Cultured The Smurfette Principle Karmic Death Heterosexual Life-Partners Maybe Ever After Funny Background Event Adaptational Attractiveness The Hero Evil Is Hammy Mighty Whitey Novelization Wham Shot Translation Convention For Want of a Nail Superhero No Ending Country Matters Grievous Bottley Harm Beauty Is Never Tarnished Light Is Not Good Japanese Films Running Gag Freudian Excuse German Films Implacable Man Corpsing Improbable Aiming Skills Face–Heel Turn As You Know Authority Equals Asskicking Cowboy Cop Science Fiction Films Race Against the Clock The Ghost Say My Name Based on a True Story Setting Update Ungrateful Bastard Ironic Echo Parental Incest Costume Porn Pet the Dog Interrupted Suicide Madness Mantra The Lost Lenore Broken Aesop Bunny-Ears Lawyer Recycled IN SPACE! Sexy Discretion Shot Time Skip Fan Disservice Honor Before Reason Made of Iron The '90s A God Am I Not Using the "Z" Word Death by Irony Big Eater Throwing Your Sword Always Works Captain Obvious Gorn Villain with Good Publicity The End... Or Is It? Hollywood Darkness Dual Wielding The Chessmaster Film Series Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Advertised Extra Laser-Guided Karma An Axe to Grind Precision F-Strike Animal Title Index Intrepid Reporter Reality Has No Subtitles The Atoner Corrupt Corporate Executive Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Vampire Fiction Villain Ball Armor-Piercing Question Instant Death Bullet Documentary "Shaggy Dog" Story I'm a Humanitarian How We Got Here Word of God Sequel Escalation Big-Bad Ensemble Early Installment Weirdness Refuge in Audacity Developing Doomed Characters Bowdlerise All Just a Dream Berserk Button And Starring Christmas Movies Index Real Life Writes the Plot The Mafia Insistent Terminology She's Got Legs Non-Indicative Name Femme Fatale Imagine Spot Spiritual Successor Evil Brit Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy For the Evulz Handicapped Badass Defiant to the End Belligerent Sexual Tension Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Great Depression Cluster F-Bomb Mundane Made Awesome Bad "Bad Acting" Creator Cameo Attempted Rape The Stoic Decoy Protagonist Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Groin Attack Dark and Troubled Past Big Bad Duumvirate Adults Are Useless Vitriolic Best Buds Dark Reprise Wretched Hive Wham Line Bland-Name Product Big Damn Heroes Ms. Fanservice Badass Bookworm Narrator Crucified Hero Shot Danny Peary Cult Movies List Dramedy Babies Ever After British Films Rousing Speech Silent Movie Dressing as the Enemy Accidental Murder Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping No-Sell Totally Radical Auto Erotica Love at First Sight Bond One-Liner Calling the Old Man Out Woman Scorned Anguished Declaration of Love Call-Forward Exactly What It Says on the Tin folderlabel Funny Foreigner The Alcoholic Half the Man He Used to Be Black and Gray Morality Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Affectionate Parody Training Montage Mr. Exposition Chewing the Scenery Red Eyes, Take Warning Yandere Jitter Cam Only in It for the Money Truth in Television Parental Substitute Earn Your Happy Ending Unresolved Sexual Tension Your Head A-Splode Adaptational Heroism Psychological Thriller Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass The Stoner Only Sane Man Mercy Kill Curse Cut Short Knife Nut Does This Remind You of Anything? Friend to All Children The Bully Adaptational Villainy Soft Glass Informed Ability Brother–Sister Incest Meaningful Echo Character Development Male Frontal Nudity Toplessness from the Back Boom, Headshot! Dirty Old Man Bloodless Carnage Adaptational Badass My God, What Have I Done? Age Lift Malevolent Masked Men Biopic Pretty Little Headshots BFG Evil Laugh Captain Ersatz Beware the Nice Ones Names to Run Away from Really Fast Vomit Indiscretion Shot Heel Realization Badass Normal Tempting Fate Obfuscating Stupidity Accidental Misnaming Adorkable Dirty Cop Every Car Is a Pinto Historical-Domain Character Framing Device Shut Up, Hannibal! The Mole Anachronic Order Beard of Evil Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Off with His Head! Only One Name He Who Fights Monsters Catch-Phrase Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Up to Eleven Cold-Blooded Torture There Is No Kill Like Overkill Serious Business Sequel Hook Twist Ending This Is Gonna Suck No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Ominous Latin Chanting The '80s Punch-Clock Villain Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Butt-Monkey Taking the Bullet Tagline Dull Surprise Worthy Opponent A Minor Kidroduction Show Within a Show Reasonable Authority Figure Chekhov's Gunman Deadpan Snarker Redshirt Army Silence Is Golden Alas, Poor Villain Dramatic Irony Noodle Incident He Knows Too Much Camera Abuse Green-Eyed Monster Downer Ending Large Ham Adaptation Distillation Nice Hat Celebrity Paradox Morality Pet Genre Savvy Mistaken for Gay Brick Joke Evil-Detecting Dog Cool Shades Immune to Bullets Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Hate Sink Genre Throwback I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Never My Fault Actor Allusion Psycho for Hire From Bad to Worse Overprotective Dad Pre-Mortem One-Liner Real Life Not So Above It All Cool Old Guy Stealth Hi/Bye Break the Cutie Hollywood Law Coming-of-Age Story Villainous Breakdown No OSHA Compliance Artistic License – Gun Safety Fanservice Back from the Dead Freeze-Frame Bonus Combat Pragmatist Fantastic Racism Smug Snake Thriller Film Noir Overly Long Gag Failed a Spot Check Dramatic Gun Cock Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Film Noir Index Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Hero Antagonist In Medias Res Ship Tease Expository Hairstyle Change Those Wacky Nazis Dissonant Serenity Loads and Loads of Characters Darkest Hour Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Dropped a Bridge on Him Hidden Depths Playing Gertrude Hair-Trigger Temper Leave the Camera Running Sole Survivor Slashed Throat Older Than They Look Artistic License – Physics Soundtrack Dissonance World of Ham Public Domain Feature Films Nice Guy Storming the Castle Eyepatch of Power You Killed My Father Eureka Moment Never Trust a Trailer Russian Films The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Fatal Family Photo All Men Are Perverts As Himself Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Blood Knight Animated Credits Opening The Dreaded "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Bond Villain Stupidity Fingore Air-Vent Passageway Actually Pretty Funny Moment Killer Deliberate Values Dissonance Brutal Honesty Creative Closing Credits Central Theme An Aesop The '70s Spell My Name with an "S" Face Death with Dignity Fish out of Water Diabolus ex Machina Action Prologue Damsel in Distress Chiaroscuro Dark Action Girl Stalker with a Crush Big Brother Instinct Video Credits Eye Scream Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Chekhov's Skill Take That! Happily Married The Faceless Adapted Out Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Expy Put on a Bus And I Must Scream Almost Kiss Cool Guns Pay Evil unto Evil Artistic License – Biology Breaking the Fourth Wall Chekhov's Gun The Starscream Romantic Comedy Arch-Enemy "Awesome McCool" Name Body Horror Fanservice Extra Roaring Rampage of Revenge Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Loophole Abuse Sir Swears-a-Lot Credits Gag Manipulative Bastard Ambiguous Ending Mythology Gag O.O.C. Is Serious Business Horror Comedy The Cavalry B-Movie Annoying Younger Sibling Riddle for the Ages Zombie Stories Parental Neglect Better to Die than Be Killed Made of Explodium Fantasy Films The Power of Love Police are Useless Suspiciously Specific Denial Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Straight Gay It's Personal Bald of Evil Frame-Up Children Are Innocent Flipping the Bird Reality Ensues Ambiguously Gay Continuity Nod Blatant Lies The Casanova Getting Crap Past the Radar Jerk Jock Evil vs. Evil The Sociopath Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Famous Last Words Punny Name Scenery Porn True Companions Contrived Coincidence All Girls Want Bad Boys The Stinger Karma Houdini Nothing Is Scarier Cool Car Cloudcuckoolander Insane Troll Logic Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Leaning on the Fourth Wall Meet Cute Token Minority Military and Warfare Films Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Music Stories In Name Only No Antagonist Ax-Crazy The '50s Lock and Load Montage Those Two Guys Heroic Sacrifice Death Seeker Cat Scare Fire-Forged Friends The Hero Dies Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Anachronism Stew Re-Cut Wounded Gazelle Gambit Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Manchild Big Bad NO INDOOR VOICE Police Brutality Department of Redundancy Department All There in the Script Unspoken Plan Guarantee Death of a Child Retcon Pyrrhic Victory Mystery and Detective Films After the End Darker and Edgier Rule of Symbolism One Steve Limit Plucky Comic Relief Horror Films Television Movie Index Epic Movie Five-Man Band No Celebrities Were Harmed Missing Mom Crapsack World Retired Badass Sealed Evil in a Can Match Cut Killed Mid-Sentence Naked People Are Funny Fat Bastard Taking You with Me A Date with Rosie Palms Drill Sergeant Nasty Aside Glance Kick the Son of a Bitch Our Vampires Are Different Neck Lift As Long as It Sounds Foreign Bare Your Midriff Dirty Coward Kill 'em All Hope Spot Conspicuous CG The Chick The Lancer Brainless Beauty Badass Boast Love Triangle The Brute Kick the Dog Closed Circle Greater-Scope Villain Comically Missing the Point Wrong Genre Savvy Villain Opening Scene The Bad Guy Wins Have a Gay Old Time Even Evil Has Loved Ones Foil Your Cheating Heart Mugging the Monster Disney Villain Death Red Herring Ripped from the Headlines Hoist by His Own Petard Male Gaze Scare Chord The Dragon Big Fancy House Major Injury Underreaction Jerkass Has a Point Fatal Flaw Super Strength May–December Romance Politically Incorrect Villain Naïve Newcomer Foreshadowing Disguised in Drag Paper-Thin Disguise I Need a Freaking Drink Bullying a Dragon Double Entendre Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Sadistic Choice A Father to His Men Deal with the Devil Amusing Injuries Final Girl Stock Footage Daylight Horror Guile Hero Eiffel Tower Effect Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Gilligan Cut Only Known by Their Nickname Bloodier and Gorier The Un-Reveal I Did What I Had to Do Badass Longcoat And the Adventure Continues Important Haircut Empathic Environment Skewed Priorities Tranquil Fury More Dakka It's All About Me Rape as Drama The Quiet One Monumental Damage Historical Villain Upgrade Reality Is Unrealistic Four-Temperament Ensemble Hell Is That Noise Faking the Dead Everyone Has Standards Took a Level in Jerkass Shell-Shocked Veteran Off-into-the-Distance Ending Neck Snap Evil Plan Market-Based Title '80s Hair Camp Gay French Films Men Are the Expendable Gender Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Spiteful Spit Double-Meaning Title Pragmatic Adaptation Title Drop Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday The '60s Extremely Short Timespan Mind Screw Beta Couple Well-Intentioned Extremist Works Set in World War II Be Careful What You Wish For Really Gets Around As the Good Book Says... The Voiceless N-Word Privileges Determinator Defrosting Ice Queen Drives Like Crazy Disney Death Parental Abandonment Properly Paranoid Fiery Redhead Author Avatar Bolivian Army Ending War Is Hell Even Evil Has Standards Catapult Nightmare Papa Wolf Screw This, I'm Outta Here! You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Vomit Discretion Shot Evil Counterpart Rated M for Manly Rule of Three Sassy Black Woman Spanner in the Works Would Hurt a Child Unwitting Instigator of Doom Affably Evil Cruel and Unusual Death Animal Motifs Self-Deprecation Mexican Standoff Poor Communication Kills Apocalypse How Posthumous Character Card-Carrying Villain Death Glare Line-of-Sight Name Red Oni, Blue Oni Author Appeal Visual Pun Suspiciously Similar Substitute Trailers Always Spoil Hypocritical Humor Random Events Plot Alliterative Name Reckless Gun Usage Grey and Gray Morality Arranged Marriage She Cleans Up Nicely What the Hell, Hero? Left the Background Music On Cat Fight Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Crazy Jealous Guy The Reveal No Name Given Big Applesauce Rule of Cool Outrun the Fireball Batman Gambit Red Shirt Destination Defenestration Bad Boss Broken Pedestal In the Back Demonic Possession Mama Bear Historical In-Joke Heroes Want Redheads Determinator aka: The Determinator The Big Guy Antagonist Title Ambiguous Disorder The Ace Domestic Abuse Protagonist Title You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Bound and Gagged