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