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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Thriller Woman Scorned Superhero Jerk with a Heart of Gold Recycled IN SPACE! Attempted Rape Cowboy Cop Enemy Mine Mystery and Detective Films French Films Mr. Fanservice Butt-Monkey Anachronism Stew Insistent Terminology Car Fu Kick the Dog Mooks Here We Go Again! Evil Plan Continuity Nod Badass Bookworm Heterosexual Life-Partners Meet Cute Bittersweet Ending The Voiceless Deconstruction Bloodier and Gorier Children Are Innocent Chewing the Scenery Reality Is Unrealistic The Sociopath Affably Evil Film Noir Heroic Sacrifice Kids Are Cruel Adaptational Badass Trailers Always Spoil Crazy Jealous Guy Camp Gay Rule of Funny My God, What Have I Done? Naked People Are Funny Alpha Bitch Anti-Villain Christmas Movies Index Real Life Precision F-Strike Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Adaptation Dye-Job O.O.C. Is Serious Business Death Seeker Evil vs. Evil Sci-Fi Horror British Films From Nobody to Nightmare Kill It with Fire Bare Your Midriff Bloodless Carnage Costume Porn Artistic License – Law Eyepatch of Power Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Funny Foreigner Early Installment Weirdness Card-Carrying Villain Rule of Symbolism No Celebrities Were Harmed Oh, Crap! Fun with Acronyms Stealth Hi/Bye Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Big "NO!" Unresolved Sexual Tension Love Triangle Hell Is That Noise Public Domain Feature Films Even Evil Has Standards Mind Screw What You Are in the Dark Jitter Cam Big Damn Heroes Not So Stoic Too Dumb to Live Groin Attack Cool Old Lady Punch-Clock Villain Karma Houdini Sequel Escalation Instant Death Bullet All Men Are Perverts Intergenerational Friendship The Bully Red Herring Genre Shift Empathic Environment Author Appeal Laughing Mad B-Movie Pimped-Out Dress Grey and Gray Morality Film Series Interrupted Suicide Intrepid Reporter Overly Long Gag The Mafia Last-Name Basis It Will Never Catch On Improbable Weapon User Shoot the Shaggy Dog Bottomless Magazines An Aesop Dropped a Bridge on Him Take That! Silent Movie Retcon Super Strength Bolivian Army Ending Disguised in Drag Anachronic Order Extremely Short Timespan Evil Laugh Reality Has No Subtitles Kick the Son of a Bitch Curb-Stomp Battle Let's Get Dangerous! folderlabel Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Not Even Bothering with the Accent Dogged Nice Guy "Shaggy Dog" Story Mythology Gag Rasputinian Death Closed Circle The Oner Alliterative Name Daylight Horror Informed Ability Evil Is Petty Curse Cut Short Action Girl As the Good Book Says... Horror Comedy Soft Glass NO INDOOR VOICE Half the Man He Used to Be Hope Spot Grievous Bottley Harm Manly Tears Ghost Fiction Coming-of-Age Story Setting Update Stock Footage Novelization Defrosting Ice Queen "The Reason You Suck" Speech Stealth Pun Diabolus ex Machina Fiery Redhead Those Wacky Nazis Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Is a Crapshoot Bavarian Fire Drill It's All About Me Disappeared Dad The Dreaded Protagonist Title War Is Hell Market-Based Title Call-Forward Slasher Smile Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Credits Gag The Un-Reveal One-Word Title Biopic Running Gag Broken Bird Documentary Covers Always Lie Evil Counterpart Ambiguously Gay Homage Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Evil Sounds Deep Not So Above It All Fourth Date Marriage Gratuitous English Scary Black Man Dramedy Adaptational Villainy Genre Throwback Police are Useless Brick Joke Married to the Job Mistaken for Gay Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Tap on the Head The Vamp Corpsing Wham Line Self-Deprecation Five-Man Band Dark and Troubled Past Hong Kong Films Ironic Echo Historical In-Joke Black Best Friend All for Nothing Insult Backfire Meaningful Name Did Not Get the Girl The Bad Guy Wins Whole Plot Reference Our Zombies Are Different Hoist by His Own Petard Obstructive Bureaucrat Humans Are Bastards Does Not Like Shoes Plucky Comic Relief Mr. Exposition Fate Worse than Death May–December Romance Brother–Sister Incest Historical-Domain Character Get Out! 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