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Slashed Throat The Ghost Black and Gray Morality Dirty Old Man Black Comedy Flashback Humans Are Bastards Ungrateful Bastard Death by Irony Meet Cute Rule of Funny From Bad to Worse 20 Minutes into the Future Jerk with a Heart of Gold Serial Killer Arch-Enemy Creepy Child Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Sassy Black Woman Deus ex Machina Redshirt Army Brother–Sister Incest Token Minority Coming-of-Age Story Would Hurt a Child Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Big Brother Instinct Bunny-Ears Lawyer Take That! Chase Scene Funny Background Event Dogged Nice Guy Beta Couple Fan Disservice Rule of Three Star-Crossed Lovers A Date with Rosie Palms Artistic License – Physics Shown Their Work Awesome, but Impractical Vitriolic Best Buds Heel Realization Cluster F-Bomb Based on a True Story Author Appeal British Films Improbable Aiming Skills Soft Glass Stylistic Suck Ambiguous Ending Leaning on the Fourth Wall Villain Ball Obstructive Bureaucrat Non-Indicative Name Bar Brawl I Did What I Had to Do Camera Abuse Parental Substitute Kill It with Fire Jerkass Has a Point Made of Iron No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Not So Different Gold Digger Toplessness from the Back Disproportionate Retribution Well-Intentioned Extremist Heroic BSoD All Girls Want Bad Boys Canon Foreigner Heroic Sacrifice Driven to Suicide Mugging the Monster Sci-Fi Horror Alpha Bitch Eureka Moment Hero of Another Story Meaningful Background Event Continuity Nod Determinator French Films Up to Eleven The '80s The Chessmaster Jitter Cam Historical Hero Upgrade Adaptation Dye-Job Knife Nut Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Made of Explodium She Cleans Up Nicely Make It Look Like an Accident After the End Fake Shemp Slasher Smile And I Must Scream Crapsack World Bitch in Sheep's Clothing The Musical Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Adaptation Distillation All There in the Script Aside Glance Drives Like Crazy Serious Business Time Skip Naked People Are Funny Twist Ending Red Herring Disney Villain Death Leitmotif Almost Kiss All for Nothing I Need a Freaking Drink Half the Man He Used to Be Plucky Comic Relief Abhorrent Admirer The X of Y Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Gone Horribly Right Ass Shove La Résistance The End... Or Is It? Russian Films Butt-Monkey As You Know Obfuscating Stupidity Everyone Has Standards Villain Song Extremely Short Timespan Greater-Scope Villain Villainous Breakdown Woman Scorned Better to Die than Be Killed Fantasy Films Deadpan Snarker Facial Horror I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Dark and Troubled Past Male Gaze Politically Incorrect Villain Maybe Ever After Anyone Can Die Only One Name Authority Equals Asskicking Even Evil Has Standards Moment Killer Male Frontal Nudity Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Match Cut Gender Flip Setting Update Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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They Really Do Love Each Other Australian Movies The Lost Lenore Does Not Like Shoes Accidental Misnaming Visual Pun Insult Backfire Reasonable Authority Figure Ambiguous Disorder The Oner Motor Mouth Fat Bastard Attempted Rape Translation Convention Unusual Euphemism Affably Evil Documentary Last-Name Basis Bloodless Carnage Adaptational Attractiveness Gorn Horror Comedy Smug Snake Guns Akimbo Amoral Attorney Police Brutality Freudian Excuse Homage Green-Eyed Monster Broken Aesop Creative Closing Credits Training Montage Hypocritical Humor Taking the Bullet Pragmatic Villainy Early Installment Weirdness Affectionate Parody Manipulative Bastard Action Genre Hooker with a Heart of Gold Refuge in Audacity Laughing Mad Zombie Stories In the Back Bald of Evil Your Cheating Heart Idiot Ball Ascended Extra Death of a Child Badass Boast Badass Longcoat My Greatest Failure The Cameo Hair-Trigger Temper Dressing as the Enemy Nice Hat Black Comedy Rape Storming the Castle Dirty Coward Diabolus ex Machina And the Adventure Continues Anguished Declaration of Love The Alleged Car Adaptational Villainy Creator Cameo It Will Never Catch On Police are Useless Woman in White Darkest Hour Tempting Fate The Load Book-Ends Big Bad The Stoner Gilligan Cut Punctuated! 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Self-Deprecation Scenery Gorn Advertised Extra Animal Title Index Alas, Poor Villain Vacation Films Sole Survivor Badass Normal Papa Wolf Kids Are Cruel Rule of Cool Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Manic Pixie Dream Girl Fish out of Water Artistic License – Law Historical Villain Upgrade The Hero Beauty Is Never Tarnished Bury Your Gays Central Theme Big Eater Kick the Son of a Bitch Call-Back The Un-Reveal Never Trust a Trailer Demonic Possession Line-of-Sight Name Easily Forgiven Adaptational Heroism Hypocrite Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun All There in the Manual Four-Temperament Ensemble Dark Is Not Evil A Father to His Men Beware the Nice Ones Once More, with Clarity! 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Back from the Dead Re-Cut Tagline Anachronism Stew Expy Alliterative Name Domestic Abuse Jump Scare Major Injury Underreaction Pyrrhic Victory Adaptational Badass Manly Tears Brutal Honesty Properly Paranoid Wham Shot Evil vs. Evil Big "NO!" Insistent Terminology Put on a Bus My God, What Have I Done? 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Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Pretty Little Headshots Ominous Latin Chanting Famous Last Words Here We Go Again! 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Offscreen Moment of Awesome Evil Is Petty Karma Houdini Age Lift Blatant Lies Mooks Bare Your Midriff Shell-Shocked Veteran Dwindling Party Loads and Loads of Characters Logo Joke Wham Line Knight Templar Sports Stories Dutch Angle The Reveal German Films Camp Gay Redemption Equals Death Pay Evil unto Evil Spiteful Spit Malevolent Masked Men Villain Protagonist Antagonist Title Red Shirt The Mole Off-into-the-Distance Ending Love Triangle Bavarian Fire Drill Closed Circle Becoming the Mask Skewed Priorities Epic Movie Intergenerational Friendship Together in Death No Celebrities Were Harmed Not Quite Dead Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Bottomless Magazines Babies Ever After Laser-Guided Karma Foregone Conclusion Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Black Best Friend No Ending "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Bittersweet Ending Precision F-Strike A.I. Is a Crapshoot Exactly What It Says on the Tin The Place Sexy Discretion Shot Earn Your Happy Ending Flipping the Bird Evil-Detecting Dog Blood Knight Madness Mantra Index of Film Westerns What Happened to the Mouse? Spell My Name with an "S" Eagleland Leave the Camera Running folderlabel Intrepid Reporter Death by Adaptation Parental Incest Fate Worse than Death Captain Ersatz Film Noir Index Framing Device Department of Redundancy Department Martial Arts Movie Dissonant Serenity No OSHA Compliance Too Dumb to Live Celebrity Paradox Irony Lampshade Hanging The Bully Break the Haughty Composite Character Crazy Jealous Guy Never Found the Body Show Within a Show Danny Peary Cult Movies List O.O.C. Is Serious Business Defrosting Ice Queen Revenge Hong Kong Films Race Lift Heroes Want Redheads Romantic False Lead In Medias Res Big Bad Duumvirate Badass Grandpa Blackmail Award-Bait Song The Ace The Chick Crazy-Prepared Shout-Out Armor-Piercing Question Evil Sounds Deep Shut Up, Hannibal!