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