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Breaking the Fourth Wall Antagonist Title The Smurfette Principle Actually Pretty Funny Only in It for the Money Badass Bookworm Dirty Old Man Action Genre Jerk Jock Heroes Want Redheads There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Place Italian Films Shirtless Scene Fatal Flaw Fingore Suspiciously Similar Substitute Does Not Like Shoes Super Strength Hidden Depths Implacable Man Stealth Hi/Bye Deconstruction Police Brutality Novelization Butt-Monkey Blatant Lies Not So Above It All I Need a Freaking Drink Death Seeker Mind Screw Zombie Stories Corpsing Older Than They Look "The Reason You Suck" Speech Country Matters Determinator aka: The Determinator All Men Are Perverts Tranquil Fury Badass Normal Auto Erotica For Want of a Nail No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Not Quite Dead Psychological Thriller Fiery Redhead Self-Deprecation Catapult Nightmare Fourth Date Marriage Broken Pedestal Not Even Bothering with the Accent Big Applesauce Death of a Child Big Eater Needs Wiki Magic Love Cold-Blooded Torture Historical Villain Upgrade Bullying a Dragon Fish out of Water Toplessness from the Back The Ace 20 Minutes into the Future Naïve Newcomer Gold Digger Manic Pixie Dream Girl The Remake Ass Shove Evil Cannot Comprehend Good All for Nothing No-Holds-Barred Beatdown La Résistance Psychopathic Manchild Beauty Is Never Tarnished Deliberately Monochrome No Antagonist Documentary Blood from the Mouth Really Gets Around Adaptational Attractiveness The Load Karmic Death Our Vampires Are Different Asshole Victim Historical In-Joke Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Training Montage Real Life The Atoner The Sociopath Improbable Aiming Skills Put on a Bus War Is Hell Bond Villain Stupidity Heel–Face Turn Cowboy Cop Karma Houdini Large Ham The End... Or Is It? Bilingual Bonus Would Hurt a Child Ambiguous Ending Abusive Parents Sir Swears-a-Lot Tap on the Head What Happened to the Mouse? The Chessmaster French Films Badass in a Nice Suit Pretty in Mink Shoot the Shaggy Dog Manchild Cruel and Unusual Death The X of Y Ambiguously Gay As Long as It Sounds Foreign Mooks Femme Fatale Serious Business Australian Movies Ambiguous Disorder Extreme Doormat No Celebrities Were Harmed Conspicuous CG Skewed Priorities All There in the Manual Love at First Sight It Can Think Ripped from the Headlines Sequel Escalation Demoted to Extra Fake Shemp Hypocritical Humor Token Minority Madness Mantra Hero of Another Story Cluster F-Bomb A Minor Kidroduction Sports Stories Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Brick Joke Badass Grandpa Gory Discretion Shot Undying Loyalty Establishing Character Moment The Voiceless Continuity Nod Brainless Beauty Amoral Attorney Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Chekhov's Gunman Room Full of Crazy Cloudcuckoolander Not What It Looks Like Match Cut Psycho for Hire Intrepid Reporter Leitmotif Ascended Extra Adaptational Heroism Villainous Breakdown Foil Vacation Films Only Sane Man Ghost Fiction Disney Death Interrupted Suicide Happily Married Face–Heel Turn Big Fancy House Shell-Shocked Veteran Spiritual Successor Dark and Troubled Past One-Man Army May–December Romance Dramedy Russian Films Drill Sergeant Nasty Obviously Evil Killed Mid-Sentence Vampire Fiction As You Know The Reveal Worthy Opponent Heel Realization Public Domain Feature Films Badass Boast The Musical Diabolus ex Machina Wounded Gazelle Gambit Well-Intentioned Extremist Male Gaze Jerkass Has a Point Comically Missing the Point Scenery Gorn Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Rule of Funny Small Name, Big Ego Slasher Smile Famous Last Words Television Movie Index Black Dude Dies First He Knows Too Much Film Noir Index The Power of Love Closed Circle Loophole Abuse Slashed Throat Retired Badass Hollywood Darkness Made of Iron You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Tagline Smoking Is Cool Bad "Bad Acting" Off-into-the-Distance Ending In Medias Res Spiteful Spit True Companions Film Noir Spared by the Adaptation Tempting Fate Unspoken Plan Guarantee One Steve Limit Woman in White Wham Line Action Prologue Suspiciously Specific Denial Malevolent Masked Men Ominous Latin Chanting Credits Gag Product Placement Obstructive Bureaucrat Expository Hairstyle Change Extremely Short Timespan Anachronic Order Soundtrack Dissonance Drowning My Sorrows Adaptational Villainy Action Girl Imagine Spot Only One Name Daylight Horror The Cavalry Only Known by Their Nickname Awesome, but Impractical Death by Irony Thriller The Lancer Recycled IN SPACE! Faux Affably Evil Stuff Blowing Up Mr. Exposition Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique In the Back NO INDOOR VOICE Only a Flesh Wound Frame-Up Too Dumb to Live What You Are in the Dark Unreliable Narrator Intergenerational Friendship Stealth Pun Gainax Ending Faking the Dead Mr. Fanservice Empathic Environment The Bully Superhero Take a Third Option Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Pay Evil unto Evil Call-Forward Cain and Abel Pimped-Out Dress Kids Are Cruel Rule of Cool Evil Brit Back from the Dead Decoy Protagonist Idiot Ball Mexican Standoff Pragmatic Villainy Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Stinger Non-Indicative Name Monumental Damage Ship Tease Authority Equals Asskicking Drives Like Crazy Sexy Discretion Shot The '50s Took a Level in Jerkass Plot Hole Nothing Is Scarier The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Greater-Scope Villain Based on a True Story Pre-Mortem One-Liner Those Wacky Nazis An Arm and a Leg Mystery and Detective Films Reality Ensues Deliberate Values Dissonance The Mole Kubrick Stare Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Affably Evil Gone Horribly Right Mad Scientist Would Hit a Girl Accidental Murder Red Shirt Guns Akimbo Final Girl Author Avatar I'm a Humanitarian One-Word Title Darker and Edgier Affectionate Parody Fanservice Extra Blood Knight Eagleland Adults Are Useless Driven to Suicide Adorkable Meaningful Name Moment Killer Humans Are Bastards Evil Laugh Cat Scare Knife Nut Outrun the Fireball Black Comedy Chiaroscuro MacGuffin Black and Gray Morality Villain Opening Scene Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Your Head A-Splode Bring My Brown Pants Man on Fire More Dakka Have a Gay Old Time Here We Go Again! Important Haircut Dutch Angle Combat Pragmatist Betty and Veronica Double Entendre Bury Your Gays Woman Scorned You Killed My Father Peek-a-Boo Corpse Body Horror Annoying Younger Sibling Disguised in Drag Adaptation Expansion The Chick Call-Back Hypocrite Unwitting Instigator of Doom Ironic Echo Even Evil Has Loved Ones Sci-Fi Horror folderlabel Refuge in Audacity Japanese Films Left the Background Music On Nice Hat The Cameo Video Credits Creative Closing Credits Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Everyone Has Standards Hope Spot Sinister Minister All Girls Want Bad Boys Historical Hero Upgrade Poor Communication Kills Off with His Head! Destination Defenestration British Films Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Big Bad Sole Survivor Oh, Crap! Cool Car World of Ham Stepford Smiler Villain Protagonist Dark Reprise Dissonant Serenity Artistic License – Physics Papa Wolf Alliterative Name Chase Scene You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! O.O.C. Is Serious Business Brother–Sister Incest Defiant to the End Retirony Artistic License – Military Serial Killer Wicked Cultured Offscreen Teleportation Impaled with Extreme Prejudice In Name Only Be Careful What You Wish For Bait-and-Switch Real Life Writes the Plot A.I. Is a Crapshoot "Awesome McCool" Name It's Personal '80s Hair Captain Obvious Green-Eyed Monster Big-Bad Ensemble No OSHA Compliance Camp Gay Adaptational Badass Death by Adaptation Sequel Hook Jerkass Broken Bird And I Must Scream Scenery Porn Chekhov's Skill After the End Heterosexual Life-Partners Never My Fault He Who Fights Monsters Mama Bear A Father to His Men Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Say My Name Laughing Mad The Smart Guy Evil Counterpart Pet the Dog Deus ex Machina Sacrificial Lion Twist Ending Genre Throwback I Have Your Wife Badass Longcoat Actor Allusion Totally Radical Get Out! From Nobody to Nightmare Bittersweet Ending Bad Boss Instant Death Bullet Apocalypse How Fun with Acronyms Our Zombies Are Different The '90s Insistent Terminology Neck Lift Dramatic Irony Never Found the Body Offscreen Moment of Awesome Funny Background Event Mercy Kill Evil Is Petty Not So Stoic Noodle Incident Leaning on the Fourth Wall Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Big Guy The Lost Lenore Dogged Nice Guy Rich Bitch Flashback Anyone Can Die Downer Ending Insane Troll Logic Animal Motifs Ungrateful Bastard The Hero Dies Agony of the Feet Hair-Trigger Temper Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Cool Shades Hate Sink Despair Event Horizon German Films Epic Fail Animal Title Index Fire-Forged Friends Evil Plan Humiliation Conga Hell Is That Noise Heroic Sacrifice Pragmatic Adaptation Once More, with Clarity! Cassandra Truth Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Dropped a Bridge on Him Fantasy Films Catch-Phrase Yandere Bottomless Magazines Anguished Declaration of Love Unusual Euphemism Chekhov's Gun Reality Has No Subtitles Domestic Abuse Cat Fight Death Glare Break the Haughty The Vamp Missing Mom Spell My Name with an "S" It Will Never Catch On Adapted Out Time Skip Freeze-Frame Bonus Bowdlerise My God, What Have I Done? Advertised Extra Shipper on Deck Made of Explodium Mistaken for Gay Rousing Speech Costume Porn Jerk with a Heart of Gold Arch-Enemy Dirty Coward Morality Pet Bar Brawl Every Car Is a Pinto Failed a Spot Check The Un-Reveal Animated Credits Opening Manipulative Bastard Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Immune to Bullets Belligerent Sexual Tension Epic Movie Sealed Evil in a Can The Quiet One Eyepatch of Power My Greatest Failure Friend to All Children Obfuscating Stupidity Works Set in World War II Scary Black Man Retcon Dramatic Gun Cock Air-Vent Passageway Shout-Out Armor-Piercing Question Index of Film Westerns Bald of Evil Villain Ball Disney Villain Death Berserk Button Celebrity Paradox The Dreaded Meaningful Background Event Big Brother Instinct Soft Glass Jitter Cam Hoist by His Own Petard Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor "Well Done, Son!" Guy Foregone Conclusion Bloodless Carnage Card-Carrying Villain Dumb Blonde Eiffel Tower Effect Science Fiction Films Deal with the Devil Beta Couple The Ghost Arc Words Parental Abandonment Vitriolic Best Buds Hong Kong Films Artistic License – Geography Defrosting Ice Queen Redemption Equals Death Fainting Almost Kiss Getting Crap Past the Radar Aluminum Christmas Trees Four-Temperament Ensemble Exactly What It Says on the Tin Heroic BSoD Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Villain Song Rewatch Bonus The Brute Evil Is Hammy Never Trust a Trailer Storming the Castle Setting Update Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Bavarian Fire Drill As the Good Book Says... Kill 'em All Dark Is Not Evil The Bad Guy Wins Red Eyes, Take Warning Grey and Gray Morality Trailers Always Spoil Due to the Dead Developing Doomed Characters Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Drugs Are Bad Men Are the Expendable Gender Dual Wielding Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Artistic License – Law Wretched Hive Loads and Loads of Characters Broken Aesop Throwing Your Sword Always Works Five-Man Band Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Homage Casting Gag Silent Movie Handicapped Badass Word of God Big Damn Heroes Evil-Detecting Dog Gorn A God Am I The Alleged Car Hooker with a Heart of Gold Adaptation Name Change Didn't Think This Through Black Best Friend Funny Foreigner Canadian Movies How We Got Here Light Is Not Good N-Word Privileges Up to Eleven Eye Scream Politically Incorrect Villain Calling the Old Man Out Laser-Guided Karma Sadistic Choice Meaningful Echo Mythology Gag Improvised Weapon Those Two Guys Distracted by the Sexy Curb-Stomp Battle Bound and Gagged Mighty Whitey Ragtag Bunch of Misfits She's Got Legs Horror Films Not So Different Kick the Dog Artistic License – Gun Safety Dressing as the Enemy Very Loosely Based on a True Story Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Eldritch Abomination Boom, Headshot! Adaptation Distillation Redshirt Army Enemy Mine The Starscream Genre Shift Title Drop Slasher Movie Crazy Jealous Guy Irony Knight Templar Punny Name Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Mugging the Monster Hollywood Law Nice Guy I Want My Beloved to Be Happy An Aesop Meet Cute Truth in Television Dirty Cop This Is Gonna Suck Bond One-Liner Disproportionate Retribution Take That! Easily Forgiven Department of Redundancy Department Camera Abuse Line-of-Sight Name Properly Paranoid Better to Die than Be Killed Spanner in the Works "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Overly Long Gag Precision F-Strike Death by Sex Re-Cut Fatal Family Photo Exact Words Your Cheating Heart Taking You with Me Anti-Hero Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Married to the Job The Mafia Lampshade Hanging Face Death with Dignity Victoria's Secret Compartment Took a Level in Badass Age Lift Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Romantic Comedy Scare Chord The Casanova Ax-Crazy Motor Mouth Major Injury Underreaction Beard of Evil Let's Get Dangerous! Police are Useless Sassy Black Woman The Dragon Facial Horror As Himself Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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