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Guile Hero
Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Fantasy Films
Our Vampires Are Different
Accidental Misnaming
Mythology Gag
Adaptation Distillation
Big Eater
Babies Ever After
The Cavalry
Whole Plot Reference
Anachronic Order
Shirtless Scene
Break the Haughty
Adorkable
Cool Old Guy
Say My Name
Bavarian Fire Drill
Call-Forward
Well-Intentioned Extremist
Storming the Castle
Meaningful Background Event
Rousing Speech
Expository Hairstyle Change
Lock and Load Montage
Children Are Innocent
Never My Fault
Four-Temperament Ensemble
Leave the Camera Running
Better to Die than Be Killed
Becoming the Mask
Car Fu
Destination Defenestration
Sir Swears-a-Lot
"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Pretty Little Headshots
The Dreaded
Properly Paranoid
Determinator
aka: The Determinator
Action Genre
Anachronism Stew
"Well Done, Son!" Guy
Affably Evil
Corrupt Corporate Executive
Chase Scene
Damsel in Distress
Big Damn Heroes
Novelization
Science Fiction Films
The Sociopath
How We Got Here
Dying Moment of Awesome
The Stoic
Silent Movie
Tranquil Fury
Television Movie Index
The End... Or Is It?
Easily Forgiven
Here We Go Again!
Cool Shades
MayDecember Romance
Kids Are Cruel
Heroic BSoD
Wretched Hive
Abhorrent Admirer
Dies Wide Open
Insane Troll Logic
Market-Based Title
Famous Last Words
Never Trust a Trailer
Military and Warfare Films
"Awesome McCool" Name
Hollywood Law
Every Car Is a Pinto
Failed a Spot Check
Fan Disservice
One Steve Limit
The Bad Guy Wins
Deliberate Values Dissonance
Undying Loyalty
Arc Words
Karmic Death
Skewed Priorities
Adaptation Name Change
Driven to Suicide
Mexican Standoff
Gratuitous English
Toilet Humour
aka: Toilet Humor
Together in Death
Super Strength
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
Evil Plan
Dual Wielding
It's Personal
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Poor Communication Kills
After the End
A Father to His Men
An Axe to Grind
Fiery Redhead
Shipper on Deck
Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Unreliable Narrator
Offscreen Moment of Awesome
No OSHA Compliance
Tempting Fate
Mood Whiplash
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Manchild
Historical Hero Upgrade
Married to the Job
Older Than They Look
Parental Neglect
Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Catch-Phrase
Death by Sex
Apocalypse How
Mercy Kill
Really Gets Around
Downer Ending
No Antagonist
Off with His Head!
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Blood Knight
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Nice Hat
She's Got Legs
The Dragon
Naked People Are Funny
Fake Shemp
Fun with Acronyms
Spell My Name with an "S"
Left the Background Music On
Villain Song
Taking You with Me
Brainless Beauty
Accidental Murder
Yandere
Retired Badass
Homage
What Happened to the Mouse?
Match Cut
Pretty in Mink
The Vamp
Drives Like Crazy
Jerkass
Paper-Thin Disguise
The Alcoholic
Domestic Abuse
Killed Mid-Sentence
Documentary
Time Skip
The Place
Cowboy Cop
Spared by the Adaptation
Christmas Movies Index
Get Out!
Blood from the Mouth
Artistic License Biology
Race Against the Clock
Worthy Opponent
The Mole
Henpecked Husband
Arranged Marriage
Put on a Bus
Maybe Ever After
Unresolved Sexual Tension
Humans Are Bastards
Redshirt Army
Scenery Gorn
Defiant to the End
As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Anguished Declaration of Love
Martial Arts Movie
Insistent Terminology
The '90s
Overly Long Gag
The Mafia
In Medias Res
Unusual Euphemism
Let's Get Dangerous!
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Slashed Throat
Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Gainax Ending
Jump Scare
Hypocrite
Hair-Trigger Temper
Advertised Extra
Fantastic Racism
Break the Cutie
Show Within a Show
Gorn
Artistic License Gun Safety
Artistic License Military
Insult Backfire
Aside Glance
The '60s
Adaptational Badass
Gory Discretion Shot
Amoral Attorney
Madness Mantra
Animal Motifs
Throwing Your Sword Always Works
Sassy Black Woman
Even Evil Has Standards
Grievous Bottley Harm
Beta Couple
Diabolus ex Machina
Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism
What You Are in the Dark
Foil
Fanservice Extra
Riddle for the Ages
Mad Scientist
Mind Screw
Dark Is Not Evil
Berserk Button
Made of Explodium
Body Horror
More Dakka
Rule of Cool
I Did What I Had to Do
Pet the Dog
Broken Aesop
Red Herring
Groin Attack
Calling the Old Man Out
Bloodier and Gorier
Cat Scare
Canon Foreigner
Brick Joke
Cruel and Unusual Death
Camera Abuse
Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Bloodless Carnage
Flipping the Bird
Action Prologue
Broken Bird
Eyepatch of Power
The Musical
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Adults Are Useless
Artistic License History
Arch-Enemy
Lighter and Softer
Token Minority
Stock Footage
Male Gaze
Cat Fight
Death Glare
Twist Ending
Good Is Not Nice
Badass Longcoat
Tagline
Dark and Troubled Past
Historical Villain Upgrade
Reasonable Authority Figure
Meaningful Name
The Load
Cool Car
Tap on the Head
Bait-and-Switch
HeelFace Turn
I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Jitter Cam
Book-Ends
Auto Erotica
Alpha Bitch
Affectionate Parody
Visual Pun
Spanner in the Works
Ascended Extra
Obviously Evil
Would Hurt a Child
The X of Y
Alas, Poor Villain
Meet Cute
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
Ominous Latin Chanting
Betty and Veronica
Amusing Injuries
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Evil Brit
My Beloved Smother
Bad Boss
Fourth Date Marriage
Chekhov's Gun
Light Is Not Good
Everyone Has Standards
Vomit Indiscretion Shot
The Un-Reveal
Dutch Angle
Fat Bastard
Laser-Guided Karma
Mooks
Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Silence Is Golden
Hate Sink
Irony
Award-Bait Song
Serial Killer
Reckless Gun Usage
Anyone Can Die
Flashback
Recap /
RiffTrax
aka: Riff Trax Movies
I Have Your Wife
Sadistic Choice
Chewing the Scenery
Villain Ball
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Actually Pretty Funny
Fatal Flaw
Crapsack World
Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Straight Gay
Rich Bitch
Ambiguous Disorder
Enemy Mine
Deliberately Monochrome
Early Installment Weirdness
Vampire Fiction
Smug Snake
Stalker with a Crush
The Reveal
Race Lift
Handicapped Badass
Death of a Child
The Faceless
Man on Fire
In Name Only
Rasputinian Death
The Hero
Demoted to Extra
Dramedy
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Ambiguously Gay
Take That!
Beware the Nice Ones
Rule of Symbolism
Evil Counterpart
Improbable Infant Survival
aka: Infant Immortality
Fire-Forged Friends
The Cameo
Film Noir
Parental Substitute
The Oner
Character Development
Mistaken for Gay
Those Wacky Nazis
All Girls Want Bad Boys
French Films
Hong Kong Films
Taking the Bullet
The Quiet One
Defrosting Ice Queen
Agony of the Feet
Real Life
You Have Failed Me
The Lost Lenore
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Soundtrack Dissonance
Bound and Gagged
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Contrived Coincidence
Decoy Protagonist
Kill 'em All
Badass Boast
Big Bad
The Power of Love
Mr. Exposition
All for Nothing
Bowdlerise
Aluminum Christmas Trees
Badass Grandpa
Early-Bird Cameo
Ambiguous Ending
Intergenerational Friendship
Action Girl
Only Known by Their Nickname
Captain Obvious
Refuge in Audacity
True Companions
Took a Level in Jerkass
Missing Mom
Stealth Hi/Bye
Fish out of Water
Crazy-Prepared
Drill Sergeant Nasty
Faux Affably Evil
Bond Villain Stupidity
Badass Bookworm
Casting Gag
Did Not Get the Girl
Frame-Up
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Actor Allusion
Awesome, but Impractical
Camp Gay
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Honor Before Reason
Important Haircut
Dull Surprise
Reality Ensues
Training Montage
For the Evulz
Heel Realization
Re-Cut
Empathic Environment
Bi the Way
Catapult Nightmare
The Starscream
Facial Horror
Anti-Hero
Dirty Coward
Morality Pet
Translation Convention
Product Placement
Disproportionate Retribution
Trailers Always Spoil
Bury Your Gays
MacGuffin
Serious Business
Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Blackmail
Bloody Hilarious
Heterosexual Life-Partners
Fatal Family Photo
Random Events Plot
Film Series
Protagonist Title
An Arm and a Leg
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
Sinister Minister
Establishing Character Moment
Overprotective Dad
Genre Shift
Romantic False Lead
Only Sane Man
An Aesop
Grey and Gray Morality
Sequel Escalation
As the Good Book Says...
Developing Doomed Characters
Historical-Domain Character
My Greatest Failure
Evil Is Hammy
Ass Shove
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Not So Different
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Big Brother Instinct
Not So Stoic
Obstructive Bureaucrat
Once More, with Clarity!
My God, What Have I Done?
Idiot Ball
BFG
Eureka Moment
Kick the Son of a Bitch
In the Back
Genre Savvy
Line-of-Sight Name
Motor Mouth
All There in the Script
He Who Fights Monsters
Depraved Bisexual
Cluster F-Bomb
Butt-Monkey
One-Man Army
Not So Above It All
Big Applesauce
Cold-Blooded Torture
Vitriolic Best Buds
No Ending
It Can Think
Genre Throwback
Scenery Porn
Femme Fatale
Cool Old Lady
Adaptational Attractiveness
The Lancer
Hypocritical Humor
Age Lift
NO INDOOR VOICE
The Remake
Noodle Incident
Would Hit a Girl
Dumb Blonde
Australian Movies
Final Girl
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Pun
aka: Incredibly Lame Pun
Scary Black Man
BrotherSister Incest
Improbable Weapon User
Closed Circle
Reality Has No Subtitles
Red Oni, Blue Oni
Animated Credits Opening
Disney Villain Death
Plot Hole
Italian Films
Face Death with Dignity
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Psychological Thriller
I Need a Freaking Drink
Bottomless Magazines
Rape as Drama
A Minor Kidroduction
The Great Depression
Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Department of Redundancy Department
Artistic License Law
Breaking the Fourth Wall
Our Zombies Are Different
Jerkass Has a Point
Deal with the Devil
Woman Scorned
The Stinger
Too Dumb to Live
Victoria's Secret Compartment
Demonic Possession
Ungrateful Bastard
Dirty Cop
Gilligan Cut
All There in the Manual
Blatant Lies
Black Comedy Rape
Despair Event Horizon
Not What It Looks Like
Daddy's Girl
Adult Fear
Ripped from the Headlines
Mr. Fanservice
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Parental Incest
Room Full of Crazy
Beard of Evil
Love Triangle
Hero Antagonist
All Just a Dream
Bring My Brown Pants
Logo Joke
Never Trust a Trailer
aka: Trailers Always Lie
Dirty Old Man
Stuff Blowing Up
Russian Films
Small Name, Big Ego
Word of God
Funny Background Event
Have a Gay Old Time
"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Epic Fail
Bare Your Midriff
The Bully
Darkest Hour
Zombie Stories
The Atoner
Big Bad Duumvirate
Vacation Films
Wrong Genre Savvy
Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Took a Level in Badass
Brutal Honesty
Fate Worse than Death
Dogged Nice Guy
Needs Wiki Magic Love
Coming-of-Age Story
Wham Line
Dropped a Bridge on Him
Freudian Excuse
Dramatic Irony
Shower Scene
Horror Films
Hell Is That Noise
Eiffel Tower Effect
Annoying Younger Sibling
Wicked Cultured
Not Quite Dead
Extremely Short Timespan
Red Shirt
The Smart Guy
Red Eyes, Take Warning
Scare Chord
Same Language Dub
Foregone Conclusion
Make It Look Like an Accident
Happily Married
Nice Guy
Evil vs. Evil
Monumental Damage
Police are Useless
Only a Flesh Wound
Papa Wolf
British Films
No-Sell
Hollywood Darkness
Bad "Bad Acting"
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Informed Ability
B-Movie
Precision F-Strike
For Want of a Nail
All Men Are Perverts
Central Theme
Asshole Victim
Punny Name
FaceHeel Turn
Pragmatic Villainy
Fanservice
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Pragmatic Adaptation
Crucified Hero Shot
Due to the Dead
Sci-Fi Horror
Roger Ebert: Great Movies List
Air-Vent Passageway
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
Instant Death Bullet
The Big Guy
Badass Normal
No Celebrities Were Harmed
Black Dude Dies First
Stepford Smiler
War Is Hell
Smoking Is Cool
Last-Name Basis
Intrepid Reporter
Naïve Newcomer
Disguised in Drag
Boom, Headshot!
Rule of Funny
La Résistance
A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Kick the Dog
The Un-Favourite
aka: The Un Favorite
Title Drop
Take a Third Option
Country Matters
Gone Horribly Right
Attempted Rape
Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Setting Update
Mundane Made Awesome
Ax-Crazy
Bilingual Bonus
Plucky Comic Relief
Wounded Gazelle Gambit
20 Minutes into the Future
Sequel Hook
Card-Carrying Villain
Freeze-Frame Bonus
Kill It with Fire
Danny Peary Cult Movies List
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Shut Up, Hannibal!
She Cleans Up Nicely
And the Adventure Continues
Bar Brawl
Action Survivor
Historical In-Joke
Cool Guns
Black and Gray Morality
Unusually Uninteresting Sight
And Starring
Expy
Creator Cameo
Five-Man Band
Big Fancy House
Artistic License Geography
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
The '70s
Eye Scream
Author Avatar
Villain Opening Scene
Deus ex Machina
Drugs Are Bad
And I Must Scream
Thriller
Shell-Shocked Veteran
Dramatic Gun Cock
N-Word Privileges
Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Hidden Depths
Malevolent Masked Men
Determinator
The Hero Dies
Works Set in World War II
Suspiciously Specific Denial
Epic Movie
Green-Eyed Monster
World of Ham
Loophole Abuse
Bond One-Liner
Be Careful What You Wish For
The Brute
Double-Meaning Title
Reality Is Unrealistic
As You Know
Police Brutality
Hoist by His Own Petard
Parental Abandonment
Self-Deprecation
No Name Given
The Smurfette Principle
Comically Missing the Point
Exact Words
Toplessness from the Back
Bald of Evil
Ship Tease
Disappeared Dad
Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Punch-Clock Villain
Biopic
Male Frontal Nudity
Red Right Hand
Rated M for Manly
Only in It for the Money
Nothing Is Scarier
Black Comedy
Evil Laugh
Off-into-the-Distance Ending
Peek-a-Boo Corpse
Obfuscating Stupidity
Death Seeker
Moment Killer
Karma Houdini
Mama Bear
Distracted by the Sexy
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!
Lampshade Hanging
Guns Akimbo
Heroic Sacrifice
Double Entendre
One-Word Title
Belligerent Sexual Tension
Spiritual Successor
This Is Gonna Suck
Those Two Guys
Vomit Discretion Shot
Faking the Dead
Fingore
Covers Always Lie
Villain Protagonist
Animal Title Index
Leitmotif
Half the Man He Used to Be
Manly Tears
Offscreen Teleportation
Sports Stories
Sealed Evil in a Can
Fainting
Sanity Slippage
Bolivian Army Ending
Stealth Pun
Getting Crap Past the Radar
Horror Comedy
Shout-Out
Dwindling Party
Continuity Nod
The Ace
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
It Will Never Catch On
Up to Eleven
Neck Snap
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Death by Adaptation
Mystery and Detective Films
Sacrificial Lion
German Films
Rule of Three
Authority Equals Asskicking
Superhero
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Captain Ersatz
Improvised Weapon
Curse Cut Short
You Killed My Father
Darker and Edgier
Adaptational Heroism
Soft Glass
Dissonant Serenity
Didn't Think This Through
Narrator
Spiteful Spit
Funny Foreigner
Slasher Movie
Improbable Aiming Skills
Only One Name
Romantic Comedy
Death by Irony
Creative Closing Credits
Not Using the "Z" Word
The Dog Bites Back
Beauty Is Never Tarnished
'80s Hair
Creepy Child
Sole Survivor
Index of Film Westerns
Knife Nut
Japanese Films
Earn Your Happy Ending
Manipulative Bastard
Video Credits
Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Friend to All Children
Neck Lift
Running Gag
It's All About Me
Stylistic Suck
You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
Recycled IN SPACE!
Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
I'm a Humanitarian
Ms. Fanservice
Bullying a Dragon
A God Am I
Made of Iron
Curb-Stomp Battle
Big-Bad Ensemble
Adaptation Dye-Job
Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
Outrun the Fireball
Love at First Sight
Psycho for Hire
Implacable Man
Alliterative Name
Ghost Fiction
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Humiliation Conga
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience
Greater-Scope Villain
Adaptational Villainy
Adapted Out
Batman Gambit
Loads and Loads of Characters
The Voiceless
Costume Porn
Mighty Whitey
Gender Flip
Mugging the Monster
What the Hell, Hero?
Does Not Like Shoes
Foreshadowing
Star-Crossed Lovers
Music Stories
Slap-Slap-Kiss
Pyrrhic Victory
The '50s
Totally Radical
Non-Indicative Name
Shown Their Work
Deconstruction
Redemption Equals Death
Framing Device
Cassandra Truth
Retirony
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Psychopathic Manchild
From Nobody to Nightmare
Crazy Jealous Guy
Broken Pedestal
Cain and Abel
Meaningful Echo
Based on a True Story
The Stoner
Those Two Bad Guys
Badass in a Nice Suit
Conspicuous CG
Chekhov's Gunman
As Himself
Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Drowning My Sorrows
Gold Digger
Kubrick Stare
Ironic Echo
Film Noir Index
Extreme Doormat
Villain with Good Publicity
Composite Character
Retcon
Dark Action Girl
Heroes Want Redheads
Disney Death
Knight Templar
Artistic License Physics
Armor-Piercing Question
Canadian Movies
Major Injury Underreaction
The Alleged Car
Evil-Detecting Dog
Author Appeal
The Ditz
From Bad to Worse
Chekhov's Skill
Daylight Horror
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
Antagonist Title
Wham Shot
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Cloudcuckoolander
Men Are the Expendable Gender
Back from the Dead
Revenge
Dark Reprise
Suddenly SHOUTING!
Truth in Television
O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Immune to Bullets
Jerk Jock
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Anti-Villain
Oh, Crap!
The Ghost
The Chick
Celebrity Paradox
Pimped-Out Dress
Deadpan Snarker
Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Abusive Parents
Playing Gertrude
Laughing Mad
Credits Gag
Bittersweet Ending
Your Cheating Heart
Black Best Friend
Call-Back
Woman in White
The Casanova
Imagine Spot
Your Head A-Splode
Pay Evil unto Evil
"Shaggy Dog" Story
Interrupted Suicide
Evil Sounds Deep
A Date with Rosie Palms
Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Eldritch Abomination
Public Domain Feature Films
Posthumous Character
Real Life Writes the Plot
Adaptation Expansion
The '80s
Slasher Smile
Never Found the Body
The Chessmaster
Villainous Breakdown
Chiaroscuro
Corpsing
Hero of Another Story
Does This Remind You of Anything?
Large Ham
Combat Pragmatist
Politically Incorrect Villain
He Knows Too Much
Evil Is Petty
Sexy Discretion Shot
Big "NO!"
The Film of the Book
Almost Kiss
Rewatch Bonus
Hope Spot
Bland-Name Product
Eagleland
Dressing as the Enemy