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They Really Do Love Each Other Evil Laugh Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Artistic License – Biology Curse Cut Short In Medias Res "Awesome McCool" Name I Did What I Had to Do Downer Ending Smoking Is Cool Anachronism Stew Crazy-Prepared Shown Their Work Wrong Genre Savvy From Nobody to Nightmare Costume Porn Historical-Domain Character Insane Troll Logic Truth in Television Evil vs. Evil Retired Badass Fanservice Extra Heroic BSoD She's Got Legs Nothing Is Scarier Narrator Artistic License – Gun Safety Dumb Blonde Poor Communication Kills Be Careful What You Wish For Fatal Family Photo Betty and Veronica Public Domain Feature Films Drugs Are Bad Badass in a Nice Suit Defrosting Ice Queen Alliterative Name Eiffel Tower Effect One Steve Limit Even Evil Has Loved Ones Not What It Looks Like Happily Married Canon Foreigner The Ditz Shout-Out Match Cut Sadistic Choice Chekhov's Gunman Pragmatic Villainy Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Worthy Opponent Dying Moment of Awesome Put on a Bus Not So Different Madness Mantra Reckless Gun Usage The Mafia Continuity Nod Adapted Out British Films Psycho for Hire Meaningful Name World of Ham The Brute Hong Kong Films Captain Obvious Visual Pun Heel–Face Turn Television Movie Index Heroes Want Redheads Deconstruction It's All About Me How We Got Here Those Two Guys I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Stealth Hi/Bye The Ghost Darkest Hour Laughing Mad Race Lift Bavarian Fire Drill Black Comedy Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Guy Nice Guy Those Two Bad Guys Author Avatar A Father to His Men Skewed Priorities An Arm and a Leg Demoted to Extra Mystery and Detective Films Imagine Spot Outrun the Fireball Eyepatch of Power Rasputinian Death Defiant to the End Not So Stoic Villain with Good Publicity Sir Swears-a-Lot Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Same Language Dub Foregone Conclusion Men Are the Expendable Gender Domestic Abuse Broken Aesop Cool Old Lady Earn Your Happy Ending Advertised Extra Apocalypse How Humans Are Bastards Dressing as the Enemy Celebrity Paradox Leaning on the Fourth Wall Beard of Evil Eldritch Abomination Left the Background Music On As Himself Camp Gay Papa Wolf Gratuitous English Big Brother Instinct Love Triangle Artistic License – Geography Here We Go Again! Wounded Gazelle Gambit Black Best Friend Lampshade Hanging Face Death with Dignity Heroic Sacrifice Catch-Phrase A God Am I The Stoner Action Prologue Random Events Plot Early Installment Weirdness Action Girl Handicapped Badass Punch-Clock Villain Ship Tease Ungrateful Bastard Leave the Camera Running Blood from the Mouth Crapsack World Boom, Headshot! Dissonant Serenity Only One Name Funny Foreigner The Chick Heel Realization Actually Pretty Funny Military and Warfare Films Break the Cutie Badass Bookworm Broken Bird Sexy Discretion Shot Meaningful Echo Femme Fatale Red Oni, Blue Oni Anti-Villain Interrupted Suicide The Smart Guy Not So Above It All Green-Eyed Monster Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Cold-Blooded Torture Improvised Weapon Adaptation Distillation Sacrificial Lion Honor Before Reason It Will Never Catch On Obviously Evil Redemption Equals Death Stalker with a Crush One-Man Army Gone Horribly Right Big Bad Duumvirate Badass Grandpa Shower Scene A Date with Rosie Palms Camera Abuse Stock Footage Becoming the Mask Amusing Injuries Fat Bastard Does This Remind You of Anything? Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Action Genre Crucified Hero Shot Villain Song Knife Nut All There in the Manual Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Parental Neglect Real Life Writes the Plot Drives Like Crazy Irony Historical Hero Upgrade Deal with the Devil Brainless Beauty Sci-Fi Horror Never Trust a Trailer Pretty in Mink From Bad to Worse For Want of a Nail Vacation Films The Cavalry Mr. Exposition Badass Boast Line-of-Sight Name Fish out of Water Posthumous Character Extreme Doormat Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Small Name, Big Ego Framing Device Well-Intentioned Extremist Show Within a Show Not Using the "Z" Word You Have Failed Me My God, What Have I Done? Shipper on Deck Meaningful Background Event No-Sell Fingore Shirtless Scene The Dog Bites Back Politically Incorrect Villain Those Wacky Nazis Loads and Loads of Characters What the Hell, Hero? 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Male Frontal Nudity Rousing Speech Pyrrhic Victory folderlabel Brother–Sister Incest Your Cheating Heart Fun with Acronyms Death by Sex Sports Stories Manipulative Bastard Take That! Tempting Fate Damsel in Distress Exact Words Sanity Slippage Make It Look Like an Accident Spiteful Spit Taking You with Me Annoying Younger Sibling Amoral Attorney Did Not Get the Girl No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Antagonist Title Corrupt Corporate Executive Adaptation Expansion Improbable Aiming Skills Crazy Jealous Guy Loophole Abuse Ominous Latin Chanting The Remake It Can Think Freeze-Frame Bonus Breaking the Fourth Wall Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Chewing the Scenery Adaptational Villainy Victoria's Secret Compartment Artistic License – History All Men Are Perverts Silent Movie Abhorrent Admirer And I Must Scream Evil Plan Older Than They Look Major Injury Underreaction Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Red Shirt Bare Your Midriff Authority Equals Asskicking Rated M for Manly Bowdlerise Deliberately Monochrome Friend to All Children Ghost Fiction Horror Comedy Hair-Trigger Temper Real Life Throwing Your Sword Always Works Spared by the Adaptation Sealed Evil in a Can Improbable Weapon User There Is No Kill Like Overkill Man on Fire Deadpan Snarker Recycled IN SPACE! In Name Only Face–Heel Turn Final Girl The Quiet One It's Personal Star-Crossed Lovers Diabolus ex Machina Cain and Abel Stepford Smiler Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The Sociopath Red Eyes, Take Warning Australian Movies Index of Film Westerns Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Token Minority Mama Bear The Chessmaster Dull Surprise Bloody Hilarious The Stoic Artistic License – Law Evil Counterpart Jump Scare Disguised in Drag Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Flashback Retirony Animated Credits Opening The Lost Lenore Police are Useless Pretty Little Headshots Cat Scare Empathic Environment