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They Really Do Love Each Other Coming-of-Age Story Spared by the Adaptation Facial Horror Early-Bird Cameo Animated Credits Opening Mood Whiplash Insistent Terminology Hypocritical Humor Re-Cut Superhero Sports Stories Action Girl Together in Death Dissonant Serenity Aside Glance Parental Incest No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Beware the Nice Ones A Minor Kidroduction "Well Done, Son!" Guy The Cavalry The Chick Dirty Cop Riddle for the Ages Broken Aesop Room Full of Crazy Homage The Stoner Evil Plan Vitriolic Best Buds Eye Scream Running Gag It Will Never Catch On Soft Glass The Alcoholic Overly Long Gag Black Comedy Say My Name Guns Akimbo The Lost Lenore Kubrick Stare Fatal Family Photo Does Not Like Shoes Redemption Equals Death Heel Realization Pay Evil unto Evil Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Berserk Button Fun with Acronyms Flipping the Bird Easily Forgiven For Want of a Nail Dirty Old Man The Hero Badass Normal Pretty in Mink Stealth Pun Star-Crossed Lovers Major Injury Underreaction Deadpan Snarker Leave the Camera Running Race Against the Clock I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Shell-Shocked Veteran Affably Evil Totally Radical Freeze-Frame Bonus B-Movie Failed a Spot Check Imagine Spot Car Fu Hair-Trigger Temper It Can Think Everyone Has Standards As the Good Book Says... Grievous Bottley Harm Television Movie Index Darkest Hour Hero Antagonist Fat Bastard Honor Before Reason Darker and Edgier Distracted by the Sexy Have a Gay Old Time Chase Scene Woman in White Early Installment Weirdness The Mole Bloody Hilarious The Starscream NO INDOOR VOICE Earn Your Happy Ending Adorkable Suspiciously Similar Substitute Poor Communication Kills Gorn More Dakka Film Noir Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Abhorrent Admirer Love at First Sight Nice Guy Last-Name Basis Motor Mouth Badass Boast Contrived Coincidence Age Lift Ambiguously Gay Dramatic Gun Cock Put on a Bus Retcon Cool Car Fantastic Racism Artistic License – Physics Artistic License – Biology Bad "Bad Acting" Skewed Priorities Funny Foreigner The Load Ghost Fiction Cain and Abel Punch-Clock Villain Framing Device Logo Joke Actually Pretty Funny Woman Scorned Establishing Character Moment Italian Films Interrupted Suicide Overprotective Dad And I Must Scream What Happened to the Mouse? 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Bait-and-Switch Vacation Films Break the Haughty Reality Is Unrealistic The Smurfette Principle How We Got Here Biopic Documentary Villain with Good Publicity Protagonist Title Mystery and Detective Films Loophole Abuse Alpha Bitch Famous Last Words Random Events Plot Unusually Uninteresting Sight Fake Shemp The '70s The Vamp Sassy Black Woman Recycled IN SPACE! Pragmatic Villainy An Aesop Badass in a Nice Suit Only Sane Man Extremely Short Timespan Karma Houdini Unresolved Sexual Tension Brick Joke Death by Irony Bolivian Army Ending Russian Films Badass Grandpa Deus ex Machina Unwitting Instigator of Doom Dutch Angle Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Awesome, but Impractical Accidental Murder Crucified Hero Shot Covers Always Lie No Name Given Adaptation Expansion One-Man Army Ambiguous Ending Genre Shift Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! The Musical All There in the Manual Dressing as the Enemy Arranged Marriage Music Stories Catapult Nightmare Straight Gay Nothing Is Scarier Captain Obvious Crapsack World The Sociopath Romantic Comedy Death Seeker Arch-Enemy Defiant to the End Knight Templar Drill Sergeant Nasty Epic Fail Screw This, I'm Outta Here! A God Am I Evil Is Petty The Bad Guy Wins Getting Crap Past the Radar Black Comedy Rape The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Cassandra Truth The Casanova Reality Has No Subtitles Light Is Not Good Daylight Horror I Have Your Wife Stylistic Suck Enemy Mine Gratuitous English Older Than They Look Catch-Phrase Unspoken Plan Guarantee Shirtless Scene No Antagonist Central Theme Award-Bait Song Fish out of Water Historical Villain Upgrade Femme Fatale Same Language Dub And Starring Meaningful Echo Dramedy Dull Surprise You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Loads and Loads of Characters Flashback Cool Old Lady From Nobody to Nightmare Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" The Ace Married to the Job Chekhov's Gunman Bavarian Fire Drill Frame-Up It's Personal Drugs Are Bad Improvised Weapon Broken Pedestal Hell Is That Noise Pimped-Out Dress Never Found the Body Death Glare Adaptational Heroism Public Domain Feature Films Disney Villain Death Neck Snap The Chessmaster Bullying a Dragon Affectionate Parody Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun As Long as It Sounds Foreign Brutal Honesty Male Gaze Yandere Faux Affably Evil Noodle Incident Bond One-Liner Babies Ever After Rousing Speech Creator Cameo Real Life Captain Ersatz Hate Sink Shower Scene Chekhov's Gun Leaning on the Fourth Wall Guile Hero Agony of the Feet Pretty Little Headshots Face Death with Dignity Actor Allusion Smug Snake Bowdlerise Oh, Crap! Henpecked Husband Truth in Television You Have Failed Me Scare Chord Five-Man Band Disguised in Drag And the Adventure Continues Fainting Film Series Pyrrhic Victory Cluster F-Bomb Victoria's Secret Compartment Non-Indicative Name Super Strength Author Avatar Names to Run Away from Really Fast Artistic License – Military Mythology Gag Developing Doomed Characters Properly Paranoid Important Haircut Rule of Cool Adaptational Villainy Parental Neglect Abusive Parents Those Wacky Nazis Maybe Ever After Evil vs. Evil A Father to His Men The Great Depression Breaking the Fourth Wall An Axe to Grind Big Bad Title Drop Kick the Dog Soundtrack Dissonance Apocalypse How Curb-Stomp Battle True Companions Off-into-the-Distance Ending Brother–Sister Incest Time Skip Once More, with Clarity! Animal Title Index Character Development Villain Song Really Gets Around Neck Lift Historical Hero Upgrade The End... Or Is It? 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Is Serious Business No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Fatal Flaw Heterosexual Life-Partners Hoist by His Own Petard Butt-Monkey Bittersweet Ending As You Know Corpsing Call-Forward Dying Moment of Awesome Celebrity Paradox Dropped a Bridge on Him Mugging the Monster Wretched Hive Zombie Stories Lampshade Hanging Big Fancy House The Lancer Corrupt Corporate Executive Even Evil Has Standards Anyone Can Die I Want My Beloved to Be Happy The '80s Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Smart Guy Call-Back Made of Iron Only a Flesh Wound Calling the Old Man Out Sealed Evil in a Can Humans Are Bastards Sexy Discretion Shot Dogged Nice Guy Unreliable Narrator Eagleland Cool Guns Foil Ironic Echo Dual Wielding Double Entendre Suspiciously Specific Denial Market-Based Title Kill 'em All Mama Bear Race Lift Damsel in Distress You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Better to Die than Be Killed All There in the Script I Need a Freaking Drink Happily Married Instant Death Bullet Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Jitter Cam Insane Troll Logic Kick the Son of a Bitch Smoking Is Cool Ass Shove Villain Ball BFG Deconstruction Sadistic Choice Mad Scientist Politically Incorrect Villain Depraved Bisexual Tempting Fate Gilligan Cut Decoy Protagonist Slap-Slap-Kiss Didn't Think This Through Informed Ability Taking the Bullet Obfuscating Stupidity Face–Heel Turn Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies My Greatest Failure The Hero Dies Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! In Medias Res Adaptation Dye-Job Madness Mantra Hollywood Darkness She Cleans Up Nicely Almost Kiss Genre Savvy Kill It with Fire Crazy Jealous Guy The Dreaded Bare Your Midriff Does This Remind You of Anything? Token Minority Gainax Ending Anti-Hero Vomit Discretion Shot Composite Character Sequel Escalation Intrepid Reporter Creative Closing Credits Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Malevolent Masked Men "Shaggy Dog" Story Too Dumb to Live Undying Loyalty Deliberately Monochrome Betty and Veronica Villainous Breakdown Black Best Friend Armor-Piercing Question Fire-Forged Friends Taking You with Me My God, What Have I Done? Retirony Jerkass Took a Level in Jerkass Ungrateful Bastard Gone Horribly Right Comically Missing the Point Only Known by Their Nickname Children Are Innocent Stepford Smiler Artistic License – Law Despair Event Horizon Love Triangle One-Word Title The Reveal Author Appeal Reality Ensues Red Eyes, Take Warning Precision F-Strike Eldritch Abomination The Film of the Book After the End Sinister Minister Let's Get Dangerous! Big "NO!" British Films Posthumous Character What the Hell, Hero? Chiaroscuro Not What It Looks Like Artistic License – Geography Faking the Dead Vampire Fiction Offscreen Teleportation Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Expy Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Determinator aka: The Determinator Reasonable Authority Figure Spiritual Successor No OSHA Compliance Rule of Funny The Stoic Works Set in World War II Gold Digger Stalker with a Crush Mr. Fanservice '80s Hair The Bully Novelization Tap on the Head Good Is Not Nice The Faceless Implacable Man Evil-Detecting Dog Fantasy Films Roaring Rampage of Revenge Bloodier and Gorier Dirty Coward Idiot Ball Boom, Headshot! Science Fiction Films Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Bilingual Bonus Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Eiffel Tower Effect Hero of Another Story Morality Pet Bar Brawl Dwindling Party Sequel Hook Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Japanese Films Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Real Life Writes the Plot Naïve Newcomer Combat Pragmatist Christmas Movies Index Blatant Lies Rape as Drama Stuff Blowing Up Handicapped Badass Storming the Castle Mistaken for Gay Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Deliberate Values Dissonance "Awesome McCool" Name Made of Explodium Slasher Movie Crazy-Prepared Evil Counterpart Trailers Always Spoil Very Loosely Based on a True Story Visual Pun Wham Shot Evil Brit Grey and Gray Morality Double-Meaning Title It's All About Me Scenery Gorn Rule of Symbolism The Ghost One Steve Limit Police are Useless Asshole Victim Chewing the Scenery Not So Above It All Spiteful Spit Bond Villain Stupidity In Name Only Cruel and Unusual Death Vomit Indiscretion Shot Jerkass Has a Point Shown Their Work Foregone Conclusion Horror Comedy He Knows Too Much Accidental Misnaming Brainless Beauty Index of Film Westerns Blackmail Papa Wolf The Oner The Alleged Car Small Name, Big Ego Psycho for Hire Psychological Thriller Rule of Three Those Two Bad Guys Ax-Crazy Thriller Based on a True Story Heroic BSoD Book-Ends Spanner in the Works Jerk Jock Male Frontal Nudity Peek-a-Boo Corpse Demoted to Extra Only One Name Rich Bitch The Big Guy Adapted Out Unusual Euphemism Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Line-of-Sight Name Product Placement Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Black Dude Dies First Big Brother Instinct Mexican Standoff An Arm and a Leg Dramatic Irony Wrong Genre Savvy Sole Survivor Big Bad Duumvirate Red Oni, Blue Oni Artistic License – History Destination Defenestration Drives Like Crazy You Killed My Father Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Adaptational Badass Deal with the Devil Adults Are Useless Advertised Extra Fourth Date Marriage Hong Kong Films Worthy Opponent Break the Cutie Translation Convention A Date with Rosie Palms Rewatch Bonus All Men Are Perverts The Cameo Retired Badass Dies Wide Open Would Hit a Girl Sanity Slippage Film Noir Index Eureka Moment Sci-Fi Horror Not Even Bothering with the Accent Meaningful Background Event Dark and Troubled Past Mind Screw Dumb Blonde Determinator Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Did Not Get the Girl Wounded Gazelle Gambit Heroic Sacrifice Anguished Declaration of Love Humiliation Conga Action Survivor The Place The Un-Reveal Martial Arts Movie Bound and Gagged Outrun the Fireball Leitmotif Naked People Are Funny La Résistance Fate Worse than Death Hope Spot Gender Flip Demonic Possession Every Car Is a Pinto Belligerent Sexual Tension Our Vampires Are Different I'm a Humanitarian Laughing Mad Playing Gertrude Curse Cut Short Due to the Dead For the Evulz No Ending Aluminum Christmas Trees Nice Hat This Is Gonna Suck Plucky Comic Relief Alas, Poor Villain Narrator Up to Eleven Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold What You Are in the Dark There Is No Kill Like Overkill Extreme Doormat Blood from the Mouth Pre-Mortem One-Liner Match Cut Obviously Evil Tranquil Fury Adaptation Distillation Danny Peary Cult Movies List Not Quite Dead Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Our Zombies Are Different "The Reason You Suck" Speech Improbable Weapon User Not Using the "Z" Word Refuge in Audacity Reckless Gun Usage Killed Mid-Sentence Get Out! Artistic License – Gun Safety Manic Pixie Dream Girl N-Word Privileges Punny Name Cat Fight War Is Hell Cat Scare Shut Up, Hannibal! Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Slasher Smile