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Humiliation Conga Kick the Dog Department of Redundancy Department Eiffel Tower Effect Villain with Good Publicity Expository Hairstyle Change Distracted by the Sexy Big Brother Instinct Genre Savvy Determinator aka: The Determinator Even Evil Has Standards Earn Your Happy Ending Training Montage The Casanova Berserk Button Russian Films Knife Nut Advertised Extra Plucky Comic Relief Sealed Evil in a Can Five-Man Band Breaking the Fourth Wall Tranquil Fury Brick Joke Beauty Is Never Tarnished Show Within a Show Catapult Nightmare Freudian Excuse Stylistic Suck Straight Gay Hidden Depths Rich Bitch Evil Is Hammy Credits Gag Shell-Shocked Veteran Have a Gay Old Time Death Glare Getting Crap Past the Radar It's Personal Laser-Guided Karma Crazy Jealous Guy Almost Kiss Deal with the Devil Fatal Flaw Sports Stories Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Romantic Comedy You Have Failed Me Heel Realization Overly Long Gag Bunny-Ears Lawyer Despair Event Horizon Artistic License – Biology Big Bad Disney Death Setting Update Affably Evil Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Femme Fatale How We Got Here The Voiceless He Who Fights Monsters Belligerent Sexual Tension Stalker with a Crush Hypocritical Humor Mystery and Detective Films Mad Scientist Due to the Dead Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Arc Words Taking the Bullet Major Injury Underreaction No Ending Celebrity Paradox As You Know Fire-Forged Friends Refuge in Audacity Canon Foreigner Roaring Rampage of Revenge For Want of a Nail The '90s Artistic License – Physics Skewed Priorities You Killed My Father Scary Black Man Sci-Fi Horror Driven to Suicide Kick the Son of a Bitch Random Events Plot Evil vs. Evil Children Are Innocent All There in the Manual Aside Glance Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Bland-Name Product Extremely Short Timespan Bittersweet Ending Noodle Incident Villain Protagonist Card-Carrying Villain Hooker with a Heart of Gold Drugs Are Bad Gory Discretion Shot Never Trust a Trailer Bad Boss Ass Shove Break the Haughty Eureka Moment Thriller No-Sell Accidental Misnaming Beta Couple Establishing Character Moment Car Fu Daddy's Girl Blackmail Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Combat Pragmatist Jerkass Has a Point Sir Swears-a-Lot And Starring Framing Device Coming-of-Age Story Sequel Escalation Pyrrhic Victory Green-Eyed Monster Oh, Crap! Worthy Opponent Action Prologue Bait-and-Switch Dramedy Dwindling Party Psychological Thriller Outrun the Fireball Once More, with Clarity! Body Horror Evil Sounds Deep Only Known by Their Nickname Friend to All Children Dramatic Gun Cock Off with His Head! Laughing Mad The Musical Would Hurt a Child Meaningful Echo Fainting Corrupt Corporate Executive Up to Eleven Product Placement Artistic License – Military Early Installment Weirdness Attempted Rape Riddle for the Ages It Will Never Catch On Biopic Improbable Weapon User I'm a Humanitarian Time Skip Idiot Ball Punny Name Fingore French Films Recycled IN SPACE! Evil Cannot Comprehend Good This Is Gonna Suck Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Interrupted Suicide Be Careful What You Wish For Badass Boast Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Hong Kong Films Wrong Genre Savvy Line-of-Sight Name Intergenerational Friendship Shirtless Scene Auto Erotica Fatal Family Photo Ambiguous Disorder Honor Before Reason Daylight Horror Mercy Kill Cloudcuckoolander Bavarian Fire Drill Flipping the Bird In the Back Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The Chessmaster Disappeared Dad Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Action Survivor Loads and Loads of Characters Manic Pixie Dream Girl Hell Is That Noise Arch-Enemy The Load Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Police Brutality Fat Bastard Adaptational Heroism Babies Ever After Villain Song Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Left the Background Music On Hair-Trigger Temper Sassy Black Woman Non-Indicative Name "Well Done, Son!" Guy Martial Arts Movie Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Malevolent Masked Men Asshole Victim Deconstruction The Film of the Book Nice Hat Jerk Jock Title Drop Light Is Not Good Slashed Throat Comically Missing the Point Soundtrack Dissonance Dirty Coward Motor Mouth Protagonist Title Villainous Breakdown Irony Big Damn Heroes Disguised in Drag Four-Temperament Ensemble Informed Ability Determinator Older Than They Look Unreliable Narrator Hollywood Law Cluster F-Bomb Names to Run Away from Really Fast Wham Line One Steve Limit There Is No Kill Like Overkill Pet the Dog The Bully Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! It's All About Me Hero of Another Story Bullying a Dragon Historical Hero Upgrade Unusually Uninteresting Sight Meaningful Background Event The Mafia Adaptation Name Change Film Noir The Dragon Our Vampires Are Different folderlabel Dark and Troubled Past A God Am I Central Theme Spared by the Adaptation Bring My Brown Pants Heel–Face Turn Fun with Acronyms Adaptational Attractiveness Leaning on the Fourth Wall Badass Normal Guns Akimbo No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Villain Opening Scene Tagline Not So Different Match Cut Naïve Newcomer Faking the Dead The Stoner Throwing Your Sword Always Works Arranged Marriage The Atoner Decoy Protagonist Get Out! Ambiguous Ending Lighter and Softer Empathic Environment Anachronic Order Badass Grandpa Genre Throwback Gainax Ending Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Ax-Crazy Disproportionate Retribution Covers Always Lie Broken Bird Book-Ends Big-Bad Ensemble '80s Hair Call-Forward Playing Gertrude Air-Vent Passageway Fish out of Water Chekhov's Skill B-Movie Chiaroscuro Actually Pretty Funny Jitter Cam Evil-Detecting Dog Pretty in Mink Australian Movies Cool Old Guy Adorkable Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Mr. Fanservice Dull Surprise Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun NO INDOOR VOICE Adaptation Expansion Meaningful Name Mr. Exposition Christmas Movies Index Male Gaze Ironic Echo The Chick Redemption Equals Death Super Strength Broken Aesop Military and Warfare Films Serious Business From Bad to Worse Captain Obvious Take That! Only Sane Man Fourth Date Marriage Public Domain Feature Films Facial Horror Apocalypse How The Quiet One Chewing the Scenery Your Head A-Splode Big "NO!" Exact Words Superhero Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Insistent Terminology Rule of Symbolism What Happened to the Mouse? 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Bloody Hilarious Wretched Hive Canadian Movies Logo Joke Reasonable Authority Figure Bilingual Bonus The Bad Guy Wins Amusing Injuries Rated M for Manly Cool Shades Posthumous Character And the Adventure Continues Psychopathic Manchild Rewatch Bonus The '50s Action Girl The Lancer Gilligan Cut Gone Horribly Right Intrepid Reporter Groin Attack Race Lift Suspiciously Specific Denial Bond Villain Stupidity Eagleland Offscreen Moment of Awesome Dutch Angle Immune to Bullets Pre-Asskicking One-Liner As the Good Book Says... 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Novelization Expy Sequel Hook Cool Car Dramatic Irony Papa Wolf Stealth Hi/Bye Captain Ersatz Running Gag Your Cheating Heart Plot Hole Cold-Blooded Torture Victoria's Secret Compartment Took a Level in Jerkass She's Got Legs Heroes Want Redheads Dirty Cop Maybe Ever After Humans Are Bastards Chekhov's Gun Man on Fire Even Evil Has Loved Ones Madness Mantra Costume Porn Red Herring Death by Irony Final Girl Adaptation Distillation Slap-Slap-Kiss Dies Wide Open Neck Snap Pretty Little Headshots Wham Shot Epic Movie Double-Meaning Title Leave the Camera Running Those Two Bad Guys Chekhov's Gunman Silent Movie Composite Character Vomit Discretion Shot Kill It with Fire "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Animated Credits Opening Mooks Italian Films Deadpan Snarker Homage Jerk with a Heart of Gold Aluminum Christmas Trees Beard of Evil Suddenly SHOUTING! No Antagonist Every Car Is a Pinto The Oner Artistic License – Gun Safety N-Word Privileges Adaptational Villainy Death by Adaptation In Name Only Foil O.O.C. Is Serious Business Anachronism Stew Ungrateful Bastard Double Entendre "Awesome McCool" Name Rule of Funny Danny Peary Cult Movies List Insane Troll Logic BFG Grey and Gray Morality Word of God Bloodier and Gorier The Cameo Yandere Badass in a Nice Suit An Aesop Foreshadowing Break the Cutie Manipulative Bastard Better to Die than Be Killed The Mole Storming the Castle One-Word Title Death by Sex Real Life Writes the Plot Took a Level in Badass Character Development No OSHA Compliance Parental Abandonment Parental Substitute Say My Name Peek-a-Boo Corpse I Need a Freaking Drink Silence Is Golden Crapsack World My Greatest Failure Pimped-Out Dress Not So Above It All Domestic Abuse Film Noir Index Narrator Rasputinian Death Fantastic Racism Foregone Conclusion Manchild Precision F-Strike Shoot the Shaggy Dog Sexy Discretion Shot Agony of the Feet Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Mama Bear A Minor Kidroduction Does Not Like Shoes Our Zombies Are Different Woman Scorned Happily Married Fake Shemp Betty and Veronica Camp Gay Freeze-Frame Bonus Cool Guns Smoking Is Cool May–December Romance Reckless Gun Usage Off-into-the-Distance Ending Blatant Lies Token Minority "Shaggy Dog" Story Back from the Dead Properly Paranoid Too Dumb to Live Call-Back Face–Heel Turn Knight Templar Vitriolic Best Buds Historical Villain Upgrade Gender Flip Horror Comedy Rousing Speech Chase Scene Bare Your Midriff Brother–Sister Incest Karma Houdini Scenery Gorn The Ditz The Hero Fanservice Closed Circle No Name Given Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Bottomless Magazines Frame-Up Sadistic Choice Shown Their Work All Just a Dream Mistaken for Gay Hoist by His Own Petard Amoral Attorney Totally Radical Fiery Redhead Improvised Weapon Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Fanservice Extra The Ace Funny Background Event Mythology Gag Scare Chord The '80s Big Eater Made of Iron Not Using the "Z" Word Monumental Damage Abhorrent Admirer Guile Hero Authority Equals Asskicking Adapted Out Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Broken Pedestal Pay Evil unto Evil Meet Cute Rule of Three The X of Y Together in Death Action Genre The Vamp The '70s Big Bad Duumvirate True Companions Curb-Stomp Battle Shout-Out The Stinger Sanity Slippage Jerkass Antagonist Title Accidental Murder Same Language Dub Leitmotif Black Best Friend Made of Explodium Annoying Younger Sibling Funny Foreigner I Did What I Had to Do Anti-Hero Very Loosely Based on a True Story Shower Scene Handicapped Badass Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Pragmatic Adaptation Ambiguously Gay Take a Third Option Alas, Poor Villain Needs Wiki Magic Love An Axe to Grind Music Stories Poor Communication Kills Dumb Blonde He Knows Too Much Gorn Did Not Get the Girl Never Found the Body Gold Digger The Stoic Dark Is Not Evil The Place The Great Depression Loophole Abuse As Long as It Sounds Foreign Revenge Hollywood Darkness Artistic License – Law Cowboy Cop Epic Fail Crucified Hero Shot Improbable Aiming Skills Neck Lift Artistic License – History Artistic License – Geography What the Hell, Hero? British Films Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Drives Like Crazy Black Comedy Imagine Spot After the End Unusual Euphemism Last-Name Basis Suspiciously Similar Substitute War Is Hell Blood Knight Country Matters Ripped from the Headlines Slasher Smile Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Real Life Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Hope Spot Disney Villain Death Parental Neglect Conspicuous CG Dogged Nice Guy Let's Get Dangerous! The Smart Guy Offscreen Teleportation Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Obstructive Bureaucrat Eldritch Abomination Make It Look Like an Accident The Hero Dies Everyone Has Standards Award-Bait Song Animal Motifs Television Movie Index Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Works Set in World War II Cain and Abel For the Evulz Only One Name Vampire Fiction Index of Film Westerns Male Frontal Nudity Brutal Honesty Nothing Is Scarier Whole Plot Reference Extreme Doormat Sinister Minister You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Exactly What It Says on the Tin Implacable Man Ghost Fiction Fate Worse than Death Blood from the Mouth Screw the Rules, I Have Money! All for Nothing Love at First Sight Not What It Looks Like Large Ham Star-Crossed Lovers Morality Pet Black Dude Dies First Sacrificial Lion Anyone Can Die Taking You with Me Here We Go Again! Moment Killer Woman in White Shut Up, Hannibal! Toplessness from the Back You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Developing Doomed Characters Undying Loyalty Never My Fault Defiant to the End Based on a True Story Evil Plan The Remake Obviously Evil Adult Fear Heroic BSoD Beware the Nice Ones Fantasy Films Defrosting Ice Queen Age Lift The Ghost Pre-Mortem One-Liner My Beloved Smother Retcon Faux Affably Evil Bury Your Gays Dark Reprise Japanese Films Face Death with Dignity Cat Scare From Nobody to Nightmare Awesome, but Impractical Bolivian Army Ending Destination Defenestration Redshirt Army Stock Footage Tempting Fate Becoming the Mask Stepford Smiler The Dog Bites Back Famous Last Words Not So Stoic Calling the Old Man Out Trailers Always Spoil Dying Moment of Awesome Lock and Load Montage Room Full of Crazy Only in It for the Money Alpha Bitch As Himself Race Against the Clock Karmic Death Animal Title Index German Films Important Haircut Failed a Spot Check Casting Gag Killed Mid-Sentence Deus ex Machina Truth in Television Spiteful Spit Police are Useless All There in the Script Didn't Think This Through Would Hit a Girl Rape as Drama She Cleans Up Nicely Only a Flesh Wound Mugging the Monster Greater-Scope Villain Bar Brawl Lampshade Hanging Black and Gray Morality Red Oni, Blue Oni Wicked Cultured The Dreaded Deliberately Monochrome Not Quite Dead Anti-Villain Unwitting Instigator of Doom Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds The Alleged Car The End... Or Is It? Small Name, Big Ego It Can Think Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Evil Laugh Really Gets Around Nice Guy Missing Mom I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Hate Sink The Big Guy Reality Has No Subtitles Mood Whiplash Downer Ending Smug Snake World of Ham Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Vomit Indiscretion Shot Stealth Pun Hypocrite Gratuitous English