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Jerkass Has a Point
Historical Villain Upgrade
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Taking You with Me
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And the Adventure Continues
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Missing Mom
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
This Is Gonna Suck
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Calling the Old Man Out
Redshirt Army
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Off-into-the-Distance Ending
Brutal Honesty
You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
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In Name Only
Five-Man Band
Mistaken for Gay
Animal Motifs
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Black and Gray Morality
Evil Brit
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Would Hurt a Child
Bury Your Gays
Nice Guy
Meaningful Echo
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Evil Plan
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Heroes Want Redheads
Names to Run Away from Really Fast
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Instant Death Bullet
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
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Kubrick Stare
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He Who Fights Monsters
FaceHeel Turn
Reality Is Unrealistic
Plucky Comic Relief
Wrong Genre Savvy
Left the Background Music On
Cool Guns
Good Is Not Nice
Time Skip
Crazy Jealous Guy
Sir Swears-a-Lot
Malevolent Masked Men
Call-Back
Drugs Are Bad
Properly Paranoid
Up to Eleven
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business
My Beloved Smother
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All Just a Dream
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Nothing Is Scarier
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Throwing Your Sword Always Works
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Laser-Guided Karma
Naked People Are Funny
"Awesome McCool" Name
Scare Chord
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Adapted Out
The Smart Guy
Shipper on Deck
It's Personal
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Heterosexual Life-Partners
Fish out of Water
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Room Full of Crazy
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
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B-Movie
Kill 'em All
Not Quite Dead
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Aside Glance
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Stinger
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The Hero Dies
Coming-of-Age Story
Informed Ability
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Fate Worse than Death
Improvised Weapon
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Artistic License Geography
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Poor Communication Kills
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Television Movie Index
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Get Out!
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Chekhov's Skill
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Darker and Edgier
Say My Name
Driven to Suicide
What the Hell, Hero?
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Roger Ebert: Great Movies List
All There in the Script
Bottomless Magazines
Dwindling Party
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Creator Cameo
Corpsing
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The Alcoholic
Video Credits
Big Eater
Mighty Whitey
Defiant to the End
Improbable Aiming Skills
Adaptational Villainy
Facial Horror
Hero of Another Story
For Want of a Nail
Outrun the Fireball
Random Events Plot
Sequel Escalation
Unusual Euphemism
You Killed My Father
Pay Evil unto Evil
Ship Tease
Honor Before Reason
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The Casanova
Evil Is Petty
Nice Hat
Bad "Bad Acting"
Hoist by His Own Petard
Historical In-Joke
Becoming the Mask
Funny Foreigner
Pretty Little Headshots
Only Sane Man
One-Word Title
Shown Their Work
Dark Is Not Evil
Accidental Misnaming
Manly Tears
Broken Aesop
Attempted Rape
Real Life
Fingore
Skewed Priorities
Badass in a Nice Suit
Stealth Hi/Bye
Batman Gambit
Boom, Headshot!
Lock and Load Montage
Dropped a Bridge on Him
The Hero
Laughing Mad
Anachronism Stew
Almost Kiss
Film Noir
Cat Scare
Kids Are Cruel
Bittersweet Ending
Action Girl
Ominous Latin Chanting
Gold Digger
Mundane Made Awesome
Children Are Innocent
Epic Fail
Henpecked Husband
Romantic Comedy
Psychological Thriller
Covers Always Lie
Needs Wiki Magic Love
Early-Bird Cameo
Action Prologue
Manipulative Bastard
Setting Update
A God Am I
Never Found the Body
Credits Gag
Twist Ending
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Lampshade Hanging
Soundtrack Dissonance
Does This Remind You of Anything?
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!
Title Drop
Car Fu
One Steve Limit
Only One Name
Failed a Spot Check
Sequel Hook
Bavarian Fire Drill
The Big Guy
No Celebrities Were Harmed
Groin Attack
Age Lift
Last-Name Basis
The Lost Lenore
Only in It for the Money
Obviously Evil
Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Aluminum Christmas Trees
Playing Gertrude
Heroic BSoD
Hate Sink
Sacrificial Lion
Faking the Dead
Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
Novelization
Hell Is That Noise
She Cleans Up Nicely
Disney Villain Death
Black Best Friend
Italian Films
Evil Counterpart
What You Are in the Dark
My God, What Have I Done?
Fatal Family Photo
Anachronic Order
Red Shirt
Scary Black Man
Adaptation Dye-Job
Deliberate Values Dissonance
Smoking Is Cool
It Will Never Catch On
Big "NO!"
Book-Ends
Villain Protagonist
Costume Porn
Took a Level in Badass
Abusive Parents
The Cavalry
Motor Mouth
Eldritch Abomination
Loophole Abuse
Damsel in Distress
Pragmatic Villainy
Cluster F-Bomb
Gory Discretion Shot
Ghost Fiction
Vomit Discretion Shot
Arch-Enemy
I'm a Humanitarian
Rule of Funny
Camp Gay
Grievous Bottley Harm
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'80s Hair
The X of Y
Tempting Fate
From Bad to Worse
Woman Scorned
Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Catapult Nightmare
Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Animated Credits Opening
Cassandra Truth
Market-Based Title
Eyepatch of Power
Dirty Cop
Imagine Spot
Artistic License Physics
Bait-and-Switch
Recap /
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aka: Riff Trax Movies
Kill It with Fire
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Oh, Crap!
True Companions
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Never Trust a Trailer
Demonic Possession
Neck Lift
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience
Badass Grandpa
Ascended Extra
Woman in White
Cain and Abel
Would Hit a Girl
Amusing Injuries
Enemy Mine
Russian Films
Butt-Monkey
The '80s
Adult Fear
Cat Fight
Totally Radical
Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Soft Glass
Badass Normal
Dark Reprise
Shirtless Scene
Based on a True Story
Big Bad
Crucified Hero Shot
Celebrity Paradox
All Girls Want Bad Boys
Spell My Name with an "S"
Agony of the Feet
Death by Irony
Easily Forgiven
Black Dude Dies First
Police Brutality
The Remake
The '50s
Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Card-Carrying Villain
Sexy Discretion Shot
Faux Affably Evil
Plot Hole
Politically Incorrect Villain
Too Dumb to Live
Take That!
Extremely Short Timespan
Continuity Nod
Dressing as the Enemy
Together in Death
Determinator
aka: The Determinator
Half the Man He Used to Be
Martial Arts Movie
Award-Bait Song
Adaptation Expansion
Red Right Hand
The Alleged Car
Ripped from the Headlines
After the End
Humans Are Bastards
Break the Haughty
Insistent Terminology
Humiliation Conga
Big-Bad Ensemble
Hidden Depths
Leave the Camera Running
Maybe Ever After
Bilingual Bonus
Word of God
Berserk Button
Truth in Television
Redemption Equals Death
Disappeared Dad
Death by Sex
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
As the Good Book Says...
"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Gilligan Cut
Your Cheating Heart
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Meet Cute
All Men Are Perverts
Big Bad Duumvirate
Those Two Guys
Sole Survivor
Never My Fault
Narrator
Not So Stoic
Expy
The Voiceless
Biopic
Dramatic Gun Cock
MayDecember Romance
Red Eyes, Take Warning
Psychopathic Manchild
Psycho for Hire
Genre Throwback
Vampire Fiction
The Mole
Expository Hairstyle Change
Dies Wide Open
Science Fiction Films
Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Police are Useless
Mexican Standoff
Danny Peary Cult Movies List
Broken Bird
Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Reckless Gun Usage
Slasher Movie
Cold-Blooded Torture
Anyone Can Die
Re-Cut
Fan Disservice
Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Brick Joke
Evil Laugh
Trailers Always Spoil
Spared by the Adaptation
Running Gag
Wretched Hive
Knife Nut
Due to the Dead
Chase Scene
Bound and Gagged
The Place
Offscreen Teleportation
Mind Screw
I Have Your Wife
Slasher Smile
Improbable Infant Survival
aka: Infant Immortality
Guns Akimbo
World of Ham
Eiffel Tower Effect
Non-Indicative Name
Freeze-Frame Bonus
Evil vs. Evil
Serial Killer
One-Man Army
Cool Old Lady
Cool Old Guy
Insane Troll Logic
As You Know
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Hypocrite
Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Even Evil Has Standards
Men Are the Expendable Gender
Precision F-Strike
Mood Whiplash
Race Against the Clock
No-Sell
Advertised Extra
Papa Wolf
Wicked Cultured
Actor Allusion
Villain Song
Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Canon Foreigner
An Aesop
Badass Longcoat
Take a Third Option
Paper-Thin Disguise
Ms. Fanservice
Film Noir Index
Fanservice
Manchild
A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Rewatch Bonus
Pun
aka: Incredibly Lame Pun
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Ambiguously Gay
Hooker with a Heart of Gold
La Résistance
Posthumous Character
Flipping the Bird
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Friend to All Children
Shower Scene
Ax-Crazy
Artistic License History
An Axe to Grind
Sports Stories
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Double Entendre
Intergenerational Friendship
Adaptation Distillation
Mama Bear
Dutch Angle
Did Not Get the Girl
Unresolved Sexual Tension
Pet the Dog
Lighter and Softer
Rich Bitch
Broken Pedestal
Male Gaze
Mystery and Detective Films
Victoria's Secret Compartment
Asshole Victim
He Knows Too Much
Off with His Head!
Exact Words
Punch-Clock Villain
Killed Mid-Sentence
Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Action Genre
Our Vampires Are Different
Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Foreshadowing
Genre Savvy
Reality Has No Subtitles
Fourth Date Marriage
Belligerent Sexual Tension
Here We Go Again!
Refuge in Audacity
Hollywood Darkness
Captain Ersatz
The Great Depression
Sinister Minister
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Sadistic Choice
Domestic Abuse
Character Development
In Medias Res
Sanity Slippage
As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Babies Ever After
Alas, Poor Villain
Retirony
Department of Redundancy Department
Stock Footage
Sci-Fi Horror
Famous Last Words
Deus ex Machina
Fat Bastard
Artistic License Military
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Idiot Ball
Betty and Veronica
Every Car Is a Pinto
Kick the Son of a Bitch
Break the Cutie
The Reveal
British Films
The Power of Love
Public Domain Feature Films
Villain Ball
Naïve Newcomer
Only Known by Their Nickname
Race Lift
Mad Scientist
Only a Flesh Wound
Villainous Breakdown
The Lancer
Suspiciously Specific Denial
Author Avatar
Mr. Fanservice
Vitriolic Best Buds
Evil-Detecting Dog
Flashback
Overprotective Dad
Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Silent Movie
Beard of Evil
Fanservice Extra
N-Word Privileges
HeelFace Turn
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Chekhov's Gun
No Antagonist
Disproportionate Retribution
Jitter Cam
Fatal Flaw
Morality Pet
Product Placement
Star-Crossed Lovers
Mugging the Monster
Country Matters
Green-Eyed Monster
Important Haircut
Small Name, Big Ego
Rasputinian Death
Drives Like Crazy
Rated M for Manly
Fiery Redhead
From Nobody to Nightmare
Parental Neglect
Gone Horribly Right
Revenge
A Father to His Men
Dying Moment of Awesome
Creepy Child
Ungrateful Bastard
Translation Convention
Vacation Films
War Is Hell
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Slashed Throat
Deconstruction
Madness Mantra
Punny Name
Getting Crap Past the Radar
Authority Equals Asskicking
Mr. Exposition
Dull Surprise
20 Minutes into the Future
Bad Boss
Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Villain Opening Scene
Comically Missing the Point
Immune to Bullets
The Mafia
Ass Shove
BFG
Evil Is Hammy
Dual Wielding
Does Not Like Shoes
The End... Or Is It?
Adults Are Useless
Air-Vent Passageway
Sassy Black Woman
The Quiet One
Implacable Man
Face Death with Dignity
Eye Scream
A Minor Kidroduction
Heel Realization
Man on Fire
The Ghost
Neck Snap
Evil Sounds Deep
The Chessmaster
Disney Death
Hollywood Law
The Film of the Book
Auto Erotica
I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Ironic Echo
Shut Up, Hannibal!
Blatant Lies
"Shaggy Dog" Story
Male Frontal Nudity
Daddy's Girl
Breaking the Fourth Wall
Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
In the Back
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Recycled IN SPACE!
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Depraved Bisexual
Have a Gay Old Time
Dramatic Irony
Cool Car
Romantic False Lead
Wham Line
Protagonist Title
Light Is Not Good
You Have Failed Me
Spiritual Successor
Insult Backfire
Crapsack World
Token Minority
Despair Event Horizon
Superhero
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Call-Forward
"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Four-Temperament Ensemble
Bring My Brown Pants
Love at First Sight
Interrupted Suicide
Adorkable
There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Kick the Dog
Major Injury Underreaction
Spanner in the Works
Jump Scare
Rousing Speech
Hypocritical Humor
Demoted to Extra
Stepford Smiler
For the Evulz
Not Using the "Z" Word
Badass Boast
Determinator
Earn Your Happy Ending
Handicapped Badass
Red Oni, Blue Oni
Rape as Drama
It's All About Me
Your Head A-Splode
Spiteful Spit
Suddenly SHOUTING!
Mooks
Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Femme Fatale
Distracted by the Sexy
Older Than They Look
All for Nothing
Composite Character
Once More, with Clarity!
Anti-Villain
Thriller
The Stoic
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Straight Gay
Jerk Jock
Tranquil Fury
Be Careful What You Wish For
Not What It Looks Like
Silence Is Golden
The Dog Bites Back
Reality Ensues
Affably Evil
Our Zombies Are Different
It Can Think
The Oner
Bloodier and Gorier
Gender Flip
The Bad Guy Wins
Retired Badass
Music Stories
The Musical
Better to Die than Be Killed
Tagline
Actually Pretty Funny
Bi the Way
Moment Killer
Chiaroscuro
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Serious Business
Heroic Sacrifice
Really Gets Around
Creative Closing Credits
Double-Meaning Title
Taking the Bullet
Curb-Stomp Battle
Foregone Conclusion
Decoy Protagonist
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Bond Villain Stupidity
Hero Antagonist
The Un-Reveal
Intrepid Reporter
Dumb Blonde
Bolivian Army Ending
The Un-Favourite
aka: The Un Favorite
My Greatest Failure
Captain Obvious
Mercy Kill
Annoying Younger Sibling