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Is a Crapshoot Superhero Foil From Nobody to Nightmare B-Movie Fake Shemp Mad Scientist The Hero Badass Boast Sole Survivor No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Happily Married Very Loosely Based on a True Story Outrun the Fireball Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Failed a Spot Check Corrupt Corporate Executive Real Life Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Costume Porn Continuity Nod Refuge in Audacity Frame-Up Mythology Gag Broken Pedestal Earn Your Happy Ending Well-Intentioned Extremist Back from the Dead Hope Spot Roaring Rampage of Revenge Despair Event Horizon Arranged Marriage Red Herring Small Name, Big Ego Non-Indicative Name Narrator Protagonist Title Slashed Throat Woman in White Broken Aesop Black Comedy Rape Arc Words Dramatic Irony In Name Only Deus ex Machina Those Two Bad Guys Casting Gag Meet Cute Take a Third Option Riddle for the Ages Defrosting Ice Queen Love at First Sight Ambiguously Gay Heterosexual Life-Partners Parental Substitute As You Know Credits Gag Eagleland Catch-Phrase Soft Glass Leaning on the Fourth Wall Henpecked Husband "Shaggy Dog" Story Villainous Breakdown NO INDOOR VOICE Death by Sex "Awesome McCool" Name One-Word Title No OSHA Compliance Flipping the Bird The Stinger Reasonable Authority Figure Heroes Want Redheads Male Gaze Immune to Bullets Villain Ball Artistic License – Biology You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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