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The Power of Love Cool Car Ambiguous Ending Stepford Smiler Badass Grandpa Love Triangle Outrun the Fireball My Greatest Failure Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Bullying a Dragon timeperiod Scenery Gorn Villain Ball Your Cheating Heart Heroic BSoD Immune to Bullets Refuge in Audacity Zombie Stories Fish out of Water Random Events Plot Soundtrack Dissonance Villainous Breakdown Leitmotif Parental Substitute Meaningful Echo Framing Device '80s Hair Evil vs. Evil Kick the Son of a Bitch Eiffel Tower Effect Pet the Dog Word of God Red Right Hand Villain Song Not Even Bothering with the Accent Unusually Uninteresting Sight Moment Killer Instant Death Bullet Mind Screw Animal Motifs Re-Cut Retirony Sealed Evil in a Can Fun with Acronyms Antagonist Title The Lancer Crapsack World Greater-Scope Villain Drowning My Sorrows Wretched Hive Bland-Name Product Accidental Misnaming Cassandra Truth Manly Tears Hooker with a Heart of Gold As Long as It Sounds Foreign Australian Movies Precision F-Strike Taking You with Me Guile Hero Only Sane Man Character Development Laser-Guided Karma Punny Name Historical Villain Upgrade Narrator Wham Line Epic Fail Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Anti-Hero Rule of Funny Match Cut Hero Antagonist Eyepatch of Power Victoria's Secret Compartment Belligerent Sexual Tension Blackmail Large Ham Blood from the Mouth Not Quite Dead Product Placement Bad "Bad Acting" Scare Chord Curb-Stomp Battle Hate Sink Captain Obvious Break the Cutie Anachronic Order Undying Loyalty Bloody Hilarious Exact Words Guns Akimbo Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Spared by the Adaptation Death Seeker Reality Ensues Henpecked Husband Worthy Opponent Cool Shades Red Eyes, Take Warning Ironic Echo Broken Aesop One Steve Limit This Is Gonna Suck Paper-Thin Disguise Noodle Incident The Alcoholic The Vamp Hope Spot Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Fourth Date Marriage Wrong Genre Savvy Suddenly SHOUTING! World of Ham Only One Name The Starscream Sassy Black Woman What the Hell, Hero? Dual Wielding No Celebrities Were Harmed Flashback An Aesop Fatal Flaw Green-Eyed Monster Only in It for the Money Bar Brawl Really Gets Around Lampshade Hanging Evil Brit Femme Fatale Chekhov's Skill Mr. Exposition Fanservice Extra Take That! 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Is Serious Business Combat Pragmatist Dirty Coward Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Disney Death Our Vampires Are Different Older Than They Look Stylistic Suck The Voiceless Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Soft Glass B-Movie It's All About Me Loads and Loads of Characters Action Genre Cluster F-Bomb Eldritch Abomination Villain Opening Scene Vitriolic Best Buds Sadistic Choice Even Evil Has Standards You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Cold-Blooded Torture Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Destination Defenestration Bi the Way Interrupted Suicide Love at First Sight Friend to All Children Throwing Your Sword Always Works Rewatch Bonus Spell My Name with an "S" Expy Fingore Madness Mantra Video Credits Anti-Villain It Can Think The Cameo Good Is Not Nice Nice Guy Betty and Veronica Rule of Three Brutal Honesty Suspiciously Specific Denial Adaptation Distillation Gory Discretion Shot Unreliable Narrator Big Bad I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Together in Death Call-Back The Stinger Cat Fight Dwindling Party Totally Radical Would Hit a Girl Affectionate Parody Closed Circle Death by Adaptation Science Fiction Films Spiteful Spit Due to the Dead Canadian Movies Defrosting Ice Queen Thriller Redshirt Army Jitter Cam Maybe Ever After Auto Erotica The Smurfette Principle Mighty Whitey Dramedy Dogged Nice Guy Dumb Blonde The Ditz Creator Cameo Film Noir Index Irony Revenge Big "NO!" 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