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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Demoted to Extra Not Quite Dead Country Matters Artistic License – History Foil Villainous Breakdown Anti-Hero Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The Alleged Car Manic Pixie Dream Girl Villain Ball Mystery and Detective Films Drives Like Crazy N-Word Privileges Non-Indicative Name Manchild Scare Chord Creator Cameo Same Language Dub 20 Minutes into the Future The Load Costume Porn Dark Is Not Evil Mad Scientist Evil Counterpart Logo Joke Broken Aesop Frame-Up Missing Mom The Cavalry Bait-and-Switch Psychological Thriller What the Hell, Hero? Belligerent Sexual Tension There Is No Kill Like Overkill You Have Failed Me German Films Evil Is Petty Spared by the Adaptation Artistic License – Military Take a Third Option Heroic Sacrifice Recycled IN SPACE! Male Gaze Took a Level in Badass Undying Loyalty Neck Lift Cat Scare Mr. Fanservice Take That! Light Is Not Good Really Gets Around Distracted by the Sexy May–December Romance Sinister Minister Easily Forgiven Precision F-Strike Monumental Damage Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Evil Plan Market-Based Title Neck Snap Action Genre Adaptational Attractiveness Let's Get Dangerous! Honor Before Reason Ship Tease Alas, Poor Villain NO INDOOR VOICE Irony Evil-Detecting Dog Gratuitous English Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Jerk with a Heart of Gold Mundane Made Awesome Offscreen Teleportation A.I. Is a Crapshoot Disney Death I Did What I Had to Do Dark and Troubled Past You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Dark Reprise Alliterative Name All There in the Script Dressing as the Enemy Star-Crossed Lovers Hypocrite Those Wacky Nazis Informed Ability Adaptational Heroism Psycho for Hire Meaningful Background Event The Cameo Rule of Symbolism Faux Affably Evil Title Drop Line-of-Sight Name Green-Eyed Monster Military and Warfare Films Novelization Evil Is Hammy Poor Communication Kills Race Lift Action Prologue The Oner The Great Depression Bad "Bad Acting" Even Evil Has Loved Ones Adults Are Useless Hoist by His Own Petard For the Evulz Made of Iron Beta Couple Men Are the Expendable Gender Insane Troll Logic Drugs Are Bad The Bully Naked People Are Funny Expy Horror Films Music Stories Storming the Castle Off with His Head! Manipulative Bastard Token Minority Dirty Coward Early Installment Weirdness Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! The Sociopath Reality Has No Subtitles No Celebrities Were Harmed All Just a Dream World of Ham Unreliable Narrator Deal with the Devil Television Movie Index Retirony And the Adventure Continues Took a Level in Jerkass Ironic Echo Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Call-Forward Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Sanity Slippage Pyrrhic Victory Sequel Escalation The Vamp Beard of Evil Hong Kong Films The '80s Guns Akimbo The Voiceless Adorkable Running Gag Video Credits I Have Your Wife Wretched Hive Punny Name Death Glare Humans Are Bastards As the Good Book Says... 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As Himself Deconstruction Stock Footage Intergenerational Friendship Would Hit a Girl Made of Explodium Interrupted Suicide Red Shirt Overprotective Dad Hate Sink Implacable Man Unusually Uninteresting Sight Vitriolic Best Buds Kill 'em All Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor The Mole Fantastic Racism Drowning My Sorrows Mama Bear Shoot the Shaggy Dog Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Random Events Plot Bloodier and Gorier Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Trailers Always Spoil Bad Boss Pre-Mortem One-Liner More Dakka Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Conspicuous CG Man on Fire Fire-Forged Friends The Dog Bites Back Left the Background Music On Almost Kiss Epic Fail Anachronic Order The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Villain Song Fanservice Broken Bird The Reveal Empathic Environment Shown Their Work The Dreaded Disney Villain Death Pragmatic Villainy Taking You with Me The '90s Improvised Weapon Plucky Comic Relief Villain Opening Scene Sassy Black Woman Morality Pet Faking the Dead Pretty in Mink Adaptation Dye-Job Asshole Victim Friend to All Children Book-Ends Greater-Scope Villain Sexy Discretion Shot Hero Antagonist You Killed My Father Mooks An Aesop Corrupt Corporate Executive Here We Go Again! 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Say My Name Domestic Abuse Mood Whiplash Lighter and Softer Parental Substitute Happily Married Japanese Films Diabolus ex Machina Karma Houdini Alpha Bitch Only a Flesh Wound Room Full of Crazy Love at First Sight Vampire Fiction Blackmail Cloudcuckoolander The Hero Dies Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Sole Survivor Bar Brawl Australian Movies Betty and Veronica Not So Stoic Deus ex Machina The Ghost I'm a Humanitarian Armor-Piercing Question The Mafia You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Word of God Composite Character Chewing the Scenery Fainting Ripped from the Headlines Fan Disservice Scenery Porn Action Girl Parental Incest Parental Neglect Artistic License – Geography "Shaggy Dog" Story Playing Gertrude Jerkass Has a Point Training Montage BFG How We Got Here Actually Pretty Funny Affectionate Parody Red Herring Get Out! Femme Fatale Heterosexual Life-Partners Shipper on Deck Defiant to the End Cain and Abel Cassandra Truth Small Name, Big Ego The Hero Deadpan Snarker Sports Stories Did Not Get the Girl Defrosting Ice Queen Ambiguous Ending Rasputinian Death Eagleland Mugging the Monster Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Bound and Gagged Attempted Rape Throwing Your Sword Always Works Stuff Blowing Up For Want of a Nail Moment Killer Jerkass The Big Guy Butt-Monkey Dramedy Documentary French Films Romantic False Lead Abhorrent Admirer Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Serious Business Pretty Little Headshots Genre Savvy Refuge in Audacity Corpsing Riddle for the Ages One-Man Army Silence Is Golden Naïve Newcomer One Steve Limit Make It Look Like an Accident Brother–Sister Incest Only One Name Pay Evil unto Evil Badass Boast Maybe Ever After Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Bottomless Magazines Aluminum Christmas Trees Self-Deprecation The Musical Laser-Guided Karma Double Entendre Zombie Stories Destination Defenestration Despair Event Horizon Driven to Suicide The Ace Didn't Think This Through Idiot Ball Darker and Edgier Bilingual Bonus Ax-Crazy Our Vampires Are Different Camp Gay Bi the Way Covers Always Lie The Lost Lenore Determinator Wrong Genre Savvy Chase Scene Stylistic Suck Genre Throwback Older Than They Look The Remake Improbable Weapon User Spiritual Successor Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Those Two Bad Guys Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Crapsack World Scary Black Man Together in Death Victoria's Secret Compartment Pre-Asskicking One-Liner The Stoic Does This Remind You of Anything? Malevolent Masked Men Police Brutality Toplessness from the Back Obviously Evil It's All About Me "Awesome McCool" Name Gold Digger Bullying a Dragon Hypocritical Humor Cool Car Real Life Writes the Plot Meaningful Name My God, What Have I Done? The Bad Guy Wins Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Homage Silent Movie Closed Circle Gainax Ending Historical-Domain Character Red Eyes, Take Warning Adaptational Badass Body Horror Tap on the Head Rousing Speech Artistic License – Law Not What It Looks Like No Antagonist Dull Surprise Downer Ending Grey and Gray Morality Scenery Gorn Catch-Phrase Spiteful Spit Everyone Has Standards Big Applesauce Leave the Camera Running Break the Cutie Never My Fault Super Strength Your Cheating Heart Death by Sex Gory Discretion Shot Accidental Murder folderlabel After the End Disproportionate Retribution Bland-Name Product Nice Guy Mythology Gag Amoral Attorney Pimped-Out Dress Wounded Gazelle Gambit Mercy Kill Bloody Hilarious Animated Credits Opening Rule of Three La Résistance Serial Killer Smoking Is Cool Deliberately Monochrome British Films Facial Horror Badass Normal Bloodless Carnage It's Personal "Well Done, Son!" Guy timeperiod Ominous Latin Chanting Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Department of Redundancy Department Dramatic Gun Cock Revenge Italian Films Affably Evil Calling the Old Man Out Henpecked Husband Up to Eleven Stalker with a Crush Tempting Fate Retcon Dropped a Bridge on Him Eye Scream A Date with Rosie Palms Roaring Rampage of Revenge Mexican Standoff Oh, Crap! Love Triangle Killed Mid-Sentence Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Handicapped Badass Slasher Smile Captain Ersatz Not So Above It All Death by Irony Celebrity Paradox Vacation Films Adult Fear Actor Allusion Evil Laugh Bowdlerise Funny Background Event Woman in White All Girls Want Bad Boys Hair-Trigger Temper It Can Think No OSHA Compliance Redemption Equals Death Central Theme Artistic License – Biology Black Comedy Disguised in Drag Leaning on the Fourth Wall Translation Convention Cool Old Guy Heel Realization What Happened to the Mouse? Whole Plot Reference Immune to Bullets Canon Foreigner Black and Gray Morality Redshirt Army Never Found the Body Combat Pragmatist Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun A God Am I Age Lift Stealth Pun Loads and Loads of Characters Married to the Job Jerk Jock Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Shower Scene Abusive Parents Jitter Cam Knife Nut Beware the Nice Ones The Stoner The Alcoholic Foregone Conclusion Major Injury Underreaction Eiffel Tower Effect Adapted Out Politically Incorrect Villain All Men Are Perverts MacGuffin Award-Bait Song Beauty Is Never Tarnished The Film of the Book Instant Death Bullet Curb-Stomp Battle Big Damn Heroes Boom, Headshot! Psychopathic Manchild Death of a Child Cowboy Cop Amusing Injuries Wham Line Aside Glance Dirty Old Man True Companions Accidental Misnaming Only Sane Man Character Development Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Badass Grandpa Pet the Dog Cool Guns Russian Films Overly Long Gag Badass Longcoat Insistent Terminology