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My Greatest Failure Double Entendre The Bully The Voiceless The Hero Dies Evil Counterpart Shipper on Deck Historical-Domain Character Damsel in Distress Mr. Fanservice Dissonant Serenity Stalker with a Crush Becoming the Mask Oh, Crap! Annoying Younger Sibling Leaning on the Fourth Wall Did Not Get the Girl Riddle for the Ages Composite Character Never My Fault Adaptational Villainy "Shaggy Dog" Story Jump Scare Time Skip The Place Affectionate Parody Zombie Stories Early Installment Weirdness There Is No Kill Like Overkill The End... Or Is It? 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Ugly Guy, Hot Wife After the End Attempted Rape Motor Mouth Poor Communication Kills Race Against the Clock Psychopathic Manchild Award-Bait Song And the Adventure Continues Only One Name Reckless Gun Usage Big-Bad Ensemble Flipping the Bird Author Avatar Wrong Genre Savvy Artistic License – Geography Half the Man He Used to Be Drives Like Crazy The Great Depression Bury Your Gays Drugs Are Bad Closed Circle Wretched Hive Villain Song She's Got Legs Blood Knight I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Fire-Forged Friends Flashback Animated Credits Opening Curb-Stomp Battle What Happened to the Mouse? You Have Outlived Your Usefulness A.I. Is a Crapshoot How We Got Here Babies Ever After Precision F-Strike May–December Romance One Steve Limit Unspoken Plan Guarantee Dark Reprise Taking the Bullet Bullying a Dragon Mooks Small Name, Big Ego Sports Stories Authority Equals Asskicking Developing Doomed Characters Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Captain Obvious Ambiguously Gay Mr. Exposition Married to the Job Those Wacky Nazis Eldritch Abomination Disney Death Posthumous Character Put on a Bus Adaptation Expansion Bad Boss Pre-Mortem One-Liner Television Movie Index The Sociopath For the Evulz Due to the Dead Bring My Brown Pants A God Am I Black Best Friend Undying Loyalty Foreshadowing Awesome, but Impractical Dull Surprise I Did What I Had to Do Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Cameo Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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All Just a Dream Make It Look Like an Accident Unresolved Sexual Tension Up to Eleven Loads and Loads of Characters You Killed My Father Shower Scene Big Bad Artistic License – History Villainous Breakdown Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass N-Word Privileges No Celebrities Were Harmed Pretty in Mink The Lancer Cat Fight One-Man Army Kill 'em All Blatant Lies Rule of Funny Bolivian Army Ending Big Damn Heroes Hollywood Law Sir Swears-a-Lot Horror Films Ominous Latin Chanting Obstructive Bureaucrat Never Found the Body Wham Line Made of Explodium Epic Fail Creative Closing Credits Hero of Another Story Apocalypse How Shell-Shocked Veteran Stealth Hi/Bye Real Life French Films Redemption Equals Death An Axe to Grind Cool Guns Bowdlerise Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Comically Missing the Point Advertised Extra Badass Longcoat Hypocritical Humor Madness Mantra Jerkass Has a Point Morality Pet Alliterative Name Informed Ability Only Sane Man Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The Atoner Humans Are Bastards The Alleged Car Dark and Troubled Past Grievous Bottley Harm Does Not Like Shoes Handicapped Badass Laser-Guided Karma Fanservice Extra Australian Movies Daddy's Girl Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Stylistic Suck Celebrity Paradox Sinister Minister Framing Device Reality Has No Subtitles Fun with Acronyms The Hero The Chessmaster Black Comedy Rape The Mafia My Beloved Smother Dropped a Bridge on Him And I Must Scream Get Out! 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Missing Mom Camera Abuse Logo Joke Man on Fire Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Bar Brawl Arc Words Outrun the Fireball Asshole Victim Eye Scream Manipulative Bastard Meet Cute Danny Peary Cult Movies List Air-Vent Passageway Antagonist Title Bland-Name Product Chekhov's Skill Tranquil Fury Badass Boast Rated M for Manly Demoted to Extra Shown Their Work Dying Moment of Awesome Even Evil Has Loved Ones Sealed Evil in a Can Fingore Leitmotif Rewatch Bonus Chase Scene La Résistance Whole Plot Reference Based on a True Story Domestic Abuse The X of Y Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Film Noir Fatal Family Photo Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Those Two Bad Guys Male Gaze Corrupt Corporate Executive Documentary Punctuated! For! Emphasis! I'm a Humanitarian Dark Is Not Evil Improbable Aiming Skills Genre Throwback Vacation Films Fake Shemp Hong Kong Films Tempting Fate Heroic Sacrifice Sacrificial Lion Insult Backfire The Chick Wounded Gazelle Gambit Not So Different Adaptation Distillation Loophole Abuse Love at First Sight The '80s Disney Villain Death Frame-Up Roaring Rampage of Revenge Smug Snake Major Injury Underreaction Depraved Bisexual Have a Gay Old Time Narrator Artistic License – Physics Genre Savvy Show Within a Show Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Didn't Think This Through All There in the Manual Cool Old Guy "Awesome McCool" Name Would Hurt a Child The Alcoholic Foil Artistic License – Military Darker and Edgier "Well Done, Son!" Guy Nothing Is Scarier Red Oni, Blue Oni Here We Go Again! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Dramatic Gun Cock Mystery and Detective Films Evil-Detecting Dog Unreliable Narrator Auto Erotica Easily Forgiven The Big Guy Black and Gray Morality Worthy Opponent Gratuitous English Mythology Gag A Father to His Men Light Is Not Good Same Language Dub Stealth Pun Your Cheating Heart Coming-of-Age Story Really Gets Around Faking the Dead Parental Neglect Contrived Coincidence Accidental Misnaming Retired Badass Chuck Cunningham Syndrome This Is Gonna Suck Face Death with Dignity Everyone Has Standards The Bad Guy Wins Truth in Television Bare Your Midriff Animal Title Index In Medias Res Soft Glass Hoist by His Own Petard Mad Scientist Bavarian Fire Drill MacGuffin Adaptation Dye-Job Evil Laugh Death by Adaptation Evil Is Hammy Black Dude Dies First Monumental Damage Video Credits Amusing Injuries Demonic Possession Hidden Depths Peek-a-Boo Corpse Anti-Villain Extremely Short Timespan Disappeared Dad Actually Pretty Funny Fiery Redhead Fish out of Water Badass Grandpa Gender Flip Cool Old Lady Storming the Castle Artistic License – Law Psycho for Hire Double-Meaning Title Unusual Euphemism Gory Discretion Shot Anguished Declaration of Love Cruel and Unusual Death Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Lock and Load Montage Victoria's Secret Compartment Noodle Incident Cool Car Shoot the Shaggy Dog He Knows Too Much Break the Cutie Meaningful Echo Line-of-Sight Name Ship Tease Historical Hero Upgrade Broken Aesop Re-Cut Dark Action Girl Visual Pun Ass Shove Christmas Movies Index Well-Intentioned Extremist Expository Hairstyle Change Dramatic Irony Silence Is Golden Unusually Uninteresting Sight Idiot Ball It Will Never Catch On The Vamp Plucky Comic Relief Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Blackmail Henpecked Husband Needs Wiki Magic Love Big Bad Duumvirate As the Good Book Says... Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Drowning My Sorrows Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Femme Fatale Parental Substitute Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Intrepid Reporter Yandere Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Extreme Doormat Disproportionate Retribution Badass in a Nice Suit The Lost Lenore The Dreaded Villain with Good Publicity No Antagonist Breaking the Fourth Wall Badass Bookworm You Have Failed Me No Good Deed Goes Unpunished One-Word Title Knife Nut The Stinger Token Minority Heel Realization Lighter and Softer Red Shirt Japanese Films Country Matters Arranged Marriage Jerk Jock Bond One-Liner Evil Brit Suspiciously Similar Substitute Big "NO!" Evil vs. Evil Random Events Plot Action Prologue Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Betty and Veronica Rule of Cool British Films Skewed Priorities Names to Run Away from Really Fast Overprotective Dad Shut Up, Hannibal! Never Trust a Trailer Tagline The Oner Meaningful Name Playing Gertrude Aluminum Christmas Trees Spanner in the Works Parental Incest The Ace It Can Think Kids Are Cruel Butt-Monkey B-Movie Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Hope Spot Beard of Evil Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Punny Name Epic Movie Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Bloodless Carnage Improbable Weapon User Punch-Clock Villain Dirty Cop Amoral Attorney Vomit Indiscretion Shot Calling the Old Man Out Sequel Escalation Stock Footage Offscreen Moment of Awesome Military and Warfare Films Beauty Is Never Tarnished Silent Movie Deliberately Monochrome Friend to All Children Be Careful What You Wish For Animal Motifs Car Fu Heel–Face Turn Empathic Environment NO INDOOR VOICE The Stoic World of Ham Serial Killer Sassy Black Woman 20 Minutes into the Future Red Eyes, Take Warning Self-Deprecation Genre Shift Face–Heel Turn Chewing the Scenery Even Evil Has Standards German Films Determinator aka: The Determinator Tap on the Head Film Series Book-Ends I Have Your Wife Combat Pragmatist Film Noir Index Retcon Kick the Dog Hypocrite Abhorrent Admirer Guile Hero Heroic BSoD Pragmatic Villainy Training Montage Captain Ersatz Mugging the Monster Batman Gambit Romantic False Lead Our Vampires Are Different Shirtless Scene Redshirt Army Naïve Newcomer Leave the Camera Running Exact Words Bald of Evil Bloody Hilarious From Nobody to Nightmare The Quiet One Insane Troll Logic Nice Hat Jerkass Crapsack World Red Right Hand Dutch Angle Fainting Facial Horror The Brute Faux Affably Evil Chekhov's Gunman Mama Bear Pet the Dog Establishing Character Moment Romantic Comedy Deus ex Machina Reality Is Unrealistic Screw the Rules, I Have Money! The Film of the Book Failed a Spot Check Mundane Made Awesome No Name Given Jerk with a Heart of Gold Adaptational Heroism Black Comedy I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The Cavalry Large Ham Wicked Cultured Big Brother Instinct It's Personal Revenge He Who Fights Monsters Ghost Fiction Dual Wielding Twist Ending Ungrateful Bastard Historical In-Joke Room Full of Crazy Hooker with a Heart of Gold Police are Useless Death of a Child Biopic Bilingual Bonus Bait-and-Switch Dogged Nice Guy Straight Gay Ironic Echo Properly Paranoid Children Are Innocent Toplessness from the Back No Ending '80s Hair Gone Horribly Right Cowboy Cop No-Sell Disguised in Drag Left the Background Music On Spared by the Adaptation The Power of Love Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Alpha Bitch Gilligan Cut Villain Opening Scene Brutal Honesty Fanservice Scenery Porn Mistaken for Gay Fantasy Films Destination Defenestration Blonde, Brunette, Redhead "The Reason You Suck" Speech The '60s Scenery Gorn Non-Indicative Name Only a Flesh Wound Market-Based Title Plot Hole Creator Cameo Recycled IN SPACE! The '90s Rousing Speech Slashed Throat Refuge in Audacity Neck Lift Brainless Beauty Politically Incorrect Villain Bond Villain Stupidity Artistic License – Gun Safety Catapult Nightmare Irony Call-Back Belligerent Sexual Tension Anyone Can Die Dressing as the Enemy Parental Abandonment Sanity Slippage Adaptational Badass Broken Bird Hero Antagonist Canon Foreigner Downer Ending Adaptation Name Change Protagonist Title Eiffel Tower Effect Break the Haughty Running Gag Suspiciously Specific Denial Action Survivor Big Fancy House Ascended Extra Alas, Poor Villain Broken Pedestal Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Cain and Abel Greater-Scope Villain Paper-Thin Disguise Death by Irony Spiritual Successor Malevolent Masked Men "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Affably Evil All for Nothing Once More, with Clarity! My God, What Have I Done? Aside Glance Love Triangle Driven to Suicide Death by Sex Smoking Is Cool Credits Gag Say My Name More Dakka Camp Gay Ambiguous Disorder Badass Normal Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Eagleland Moment Killer Ax-Crazy Mercy Kill Rule of Three Not Even Bothering with the Accent Daylight Horror Bi the Way Gold Digger BFG Rasputinian Death Cool Shades Back from the Dead A Minor Kidroduction Big Eater The Smart Guy Not Using the "Z" Word Death Seeker Cassandra Truth Author Appeal Curse Cut Short Four-Temperament Ensemble Enemy Mine Papa Wolf Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Neck Snap Adults Are Useless Index of Film Westerns Despair Event Horizon Sadistic Choice Italian Films Death Glare Novelization Blood from the Mouth Not So Stoic Freudian Excuse Obfuscating Stupidity Red Herring The Smurfette Principle Beware the Nice Ones Fatal Flaw Slasher Smile Would Hit a Girl Those Two Guys