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Adaptational Villainy Mind Screw Cain and Abel Better to Die than Be Killed Annoying Younger Sibling How We Got Here Artistic License – Geography Badass Longcoat Badass Grandpa Soft Glass Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Red Right Hand Children Are Innocent Star-Crossed Lovers Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Sci-Fi Horror Defiant to the End Non-Indicative Name Toplessness from the Back Informed Ability Gory Discretion Shot Dirty Cop Brick Joke Police Brutality Noodle Incident The '50s Creative Closing Credits Woman Scorned Action Genre A Minor Kidroduction Slap-Slap-Kiss Death of a Child Retcon BFG Hypocrite Grey and Gray Morality Artistic License – Gun Safety Action Girl Evil Brit Police are Useless Too Dumb to Live Decoy Protagonist Married to the Job Bi the Way As Himself Artistic License – Military The Place Woman in White May–December Romance Diabolus ex Machina Demoted to Extra Greater-Scope Villain Guile Hero Dramatic Irony Fun with Acronyms Mundane Made Awesome Bunny-Ears Lawyer Bond One-Liner Does Not Like Shoes Ironic Echo Break the Haughty All There in the Script Older Than They Look Age Lift Slasher Movie Fanservice Extra NO INDOOR VOICE Mercy Kill Vampire Fiction Parental Neglect Be Careful What You Wish For Works Set in World War II Lock and Load Montage Determinator aka: The Determinator Refuge in Audacity Henpecked Husband Anachronism Stew Funny Background Event A Father to His Men Flipping the Bird Dies Wide Open Fish out of Water Reality Is Unrealistic Foreshadowing In Medias Res Small Name, Big Ego Wham Shot Danny Peary Cult Movies List Shoot the Shaggy Dog Improvised Weapon Epic Fail Posthumous Character Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane All There in the Manual This Is Gonna Suck Idiot Ball Kick the Dog Pretty in Mink Plucky Comic Relief Canadian Movies B-Movie Betty and Veronica Cold-Blooded Torture Stepford Smiler Precision F-Strike Reckless Gun Usage Villain Opening Scene Cat Fight Ship Tease Genre Throwback Artistic License – Law Irony Up to Eleven Rape as Drama Dutch Angle The Cavalry Adult Fear Sanity Slippage Implacable Man Mighty Whitey Love at First Sight Villain Ball Death Glare Never Trust a Trailer The Dreaded Calling the Old Man Out Properly Paranoid I Have Your Wife The Quiet One The Voiceless Historical In-Joke Red Eyes, Take Warning Intrepid Reporter Faking the Dead Almost Kiss The Lancer I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Visual Pun The Chick What the Hell, Hero? 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Adaptational Heroism Rule of Symbolism Empathic Environment Morality Pet The Dog Bites Back Contrived Coincidence Asshole Victim Evil Plan Spanner in the Works 20 Minutes into the Future The Smart Guy French Films Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Genre Savvy Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Sadistic Choice Hypocritical Humor Department of Redundancy Department Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Tap on the Head Make It Look Like an Accident Gone Horribly Right Kill It with Fire Translation Convention Red Shirt Fiery Redhead Big Applesauce Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Failed a Spot Check Book-Ends Made of Iron The Musical Bloodless Carnage Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Based on a True Story Exactly What It Says on the Tin MacGuffin Imagine Spot Animal Motifs Monumental Damage Lighter and Softer And the Adventure Continues Bald of Evil Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Cool Old Lady Black Comedy Rape The Power of Love Four-Temperament Ensemble Serial Killer Getting Crap Past the Radar Aside Glance Shut Up, Hannibal! 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The Bad Guy Wins Affably Evil Breaking the Fourth Wall Bury Your Gays Time Skip Animated Credits Opening Training Montage Kill 'em All Dressing as the Enemy Fire-Forged Friends N-Word Privileges Gold Digger From Bad to Worse Bolivian Army Ending Rule of Funny Take a Third Option Interrupted Suicide Meaningful Background Event Sequel Escalation Five-Man Band Loads and Loads of Characters He Who Fights Monsters Neck Lift Bound and Gagged Line-of-Sight Name Romantic False Lead Humans Are Bastards What You Are in the Dark Crucified Hero Shot Spell My Name with an "S" Easily Forgiven Air-Vent Passageway Pretty Little Headshots Wrong Genre Savvy Serious Business Camp Gay Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil I Did What I Had to Do Random Events Plot Sinister Minister Heroic Sacrifice No OSHA Compliance The Hero Dies Hidden Depths Russian Films Determinator Gratuitous English Deliberate Values Dissonance Psychological Thriller Together in Death Famous Last Words Paper-Thin Disguise Character Development Anyone Can Die Index of Film Westerns Artistic License – History Jerk with a Heart of Gold Cluster F-Bomb Re-Cut Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Bare Your Midriff Novelization Villain with Good Publicity Parental Substitute Important Haircut Race Lift All for Nothing Japanese Films Only Known by Their Nickname Facial Horror Shirtless Scene What Happened to the Mouse? 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