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Index of Film Westerns The Bad Guy Wins Bottomless Magazines Abhorrent Admirer Video Credits '80s Hair Suspiciously Specific Denial Unwitting Instigator of Doom Vacation Films Would Hit a Girl Back from the Dead Fingore Grievous Bottley Harm Big Brother Instinct The Un-Reveal Mugging the Monster The Ace Crazy-Prepared Cowboy Cop Intrepid Reporter The Ditz Costume Porn Dumb Blonde Irony Distracted by the Sexy Gold Digger Arc Words Throwing Your Sword Always Works Gone Horribly Right Evil-Detecting Dog Psychological Thriller Villain Protagonist Self-Deprecation Ambiguous Disorder An Arm and a Leg Catch-Phrase Bar Brawl Eagleland Parental Neglect Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Those Wacky Nazis Berserk Button Sole Survivor Red Oni, Blue Oni Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Exact Words What the Hell, Hero? 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Television Movie Index Only One Name Brother–Sister Incest Shower Scene Soft Glass Horror Films Advertised Extra The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Face–Heel Turn Big-Bad Ensemble One-Man Army Your Cheating Heart Brainless Beauty Trailers Always Spoil Jerk with a Heart of Gold Karma Houdini Bloody Hilarious Bavarian Fire Drill Fantastic Racism Abusive Parents Fire-Forged Friends Psycho for Hire Christmas Movies Index I'm a Humanitarian Bowdlerise Retirony Jump Scare Bald of Evil Unusual Euphemism Rape as Drama Not So Above It All Celebrity Paradox Serial Killer Rated M for Manly Together in Death Blatant Lies Needs Wiki Magic Love Call-Forward Naked People Are Funny Reality Ensues Military and Warfare Films Hidden Depths Genre Savvy Japanese Films Lampshade Hanging Black Dude Dies First Wrong Genre Savvy Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Up to Eleven Dutch Angle Mistaken for Gay Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Horror Comedy The Starscream For the Evulz Mr. Exposition After the End Bullying a Dragon Kill It with Fire Imagine Spot Adaptational Attractiveness Manly Tears The Oner Amusing Injuries Affably Evil Last-Name Basis Never My Fault Fake Shemp Laser-Guided Karma Wham Shot Broken Aesop Accidental Murder Hate Sink Eyepatch of Power Re-Cut Adaptation Expansion Meaningful Echo Asshole Victim Cat Scare The Mafia Composite Character Brick Joke Drill Sergeant Nasty Jerkass Has a Point Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Bond Villain Stupidity Dirty Coward Extremely Short Timespan Batman Gambit Bound and Gagged The Cavalry Morality Pet Evil Brit Mystery and Detective Films Same Language Dub Mood Whiplash Woman Scorned Adults Are Useless Animal Title Index Mexican Standoff Recycled IN SPACE! 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Offscreen Moment of Awesome Dressing as the Enemy Happily Married La Résistance Aside Glance No Celebrities Were Harmed Dark Is Not Evil Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie A Date with Rosie Palms Anti-Villain Ass Shove Reckless Gun Usage Dull Surprise I Did What I Had to Do Evil vs. Evil Nothing Is Scarier Corrupt Corporate Executive Stylistic Suck Badass Boast Spell My Name with an "S" Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping The '90s Action Genre Eiffel Tower Effect Big Fancy House Heterosexual Life-Partners Alpha Bitch Dark Action Girl Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Cat Fight Sassy Black Woman Friend to All Children Affectionate Parody Aluminum Christmas Trees Lock and Load Montage Insistent Terminology Big "NO!" Final Girl Historical Hero Upgrade Black Comedy Insult Backfire Black Best Friend Taking the Bullet Broken Bird Romantic Comedy Crazy Jealous Guy Male Gaze Sci-Fi Horror Neck Snap My God, What Have I Done? Genre Throwback Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Have a Gay Old Time Older Than They Look Unreliable Narrator Greater-Scope Villain Politically Incorrect Villain Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Covers Always Lie Get Out! Mr. Fanservice Even Evil Has Loved Ones And I Must Scream Pragmatic Villainy Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Wounded Gazelle Gambit Twist Ending Big Applesauce Gratuitous English Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Mighty Whitey Storming the Castle Hooker with a Heart of Gold No OSHA Compliance Foreshadowing Kick the Dog The '80s Psychopathic Manchild You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Rule of Cool Beauty Is Never Tarnished The Bully Sports Stories Woman in White Early Installment Weirdness Evil Laugh Exactly What It Says on the Tin Adaptational Badass Off-into-the-Distance Ending The Film of the Book Canon Foreigner Male Frontal Nudity Even Evil Has Standards Naïve Newcomer Gorn Manchild Dying Moment of Awesome Anguished Declaration of Love Serious Business Ripped from the Headlines War Is Hell BFG All There in the Script Bittersweet Ending Creator Cameo Cloudcuckoolander Science Fiction Films Chekhov's Gun Important Haircut Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Apocalypse How Gilligan Cut Empathic Environment Take That! The Alleged Car She's Got Legs Precision F-Strike For Want of a Nail Put on a Bus Cain and Abel Pre-Mortem One-Liner The Remake Stalker with a Crush O.O.C. Is Serious Business Laughing Mad Combat Pragmatist Alas, Poor Villain Humiliation Conga It's All About Me The Dragon Made of Explodium It Can Think Overly Long Gag A Minor Kidroduction Badass Longcoat Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Drowning My Sorrows Intergenerational Friendship Nice Guy Famous Last Words Names to Run Away from Really Fast Artistic License – History Rich Bitch As Himself Evil Counterpart timeperiod Visual Pun Agony of the Feet Big Eater Narrator Defiant to the End The X of Y Blood Knight Small Name, Big Ego Hypocritical Humor Fatal Family Photo Not So Stoic Black and Gray Morality The Alcoholic Spiritual Successor Off with His Head! Shell-Shocked Veteran True Companions Cool Car Getting Crap Past the Radar Rule of Symbolism Funny Background Event Defrosting Ice Queen Informed Ability Scare Chord Offscreen Teleportation Dwindling Party Bloodier and Gorier Creepy Child Eye Scream Adapted Out Adaptational Villainy Training Montage Demonic Possession Faking the Dead Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Award-Bait Song Meaningful Name Beware the Nice Ones And the Adventure Continues Heroes Want Redheads Coming-of-Age Story Accidental Misnaming Mythology Gag Central Theme Jerk Jock Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Developing Doomed Characters The Stinger Interrupted Suicide Conspicuous CG The Casanova Betty and Veronica Genre Shift Kids Are Cruel Scary Black Man I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Bloodless Carnage Death by Sex Reality Is Unrealistic No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Tempting Fate Mooks Evil Sounds Deep Unspoken Plan Guarantee Fainting Artistic License – Geography Dissonant Serenity Adaptation Dye-Job No Antagonist Cruel and Unusual Death Damsel in Distress 20 Minutes into the Future Pretty Little Headshots Better to Die than Be Killed Too Dumb to Live Author Appeal Gory Discretion Shot Red Herring Deconstruction Say My Name Daddy's Girl Slasher Movie Redshirt Army Homage Race Lift Silent Movie Whole Plot Reference Leave the Camera Running It Will Never Catch On Big Bad Setting Update Daylight Horror Motor Mouth The Smart Guy The Stoner The Great Depression Artistic License – Military Villain Opening Scene Non-Indicative Name Disproportionate Retribution Show Within a Show Death by Adaptation Skewed Priorities Darker and Edgier Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Real Life Writes the Plot Police are Useless Unusually Uninteresting Sight Broken Pedestal Word of God Paper-Thin Disguise Heel–Face Turn Ms. Fanservice Properly Paranoid Australian Movies Call-Back Based on a True Story Sir Swears-a-Lot Leitmotif Henpecked Husband Those Two Bad Guys Chiaroscuro Screw the Money, I Have Rules! May–December Romance Grey and Gray Morality Action Girl Karmic Death Expy Children Are Innocent Comically Missing the Point Kick the Son of a Bitch Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Every Car Is a Pinto Hell Is That Noise Loophole Abuse One-Word Title Implacable Man Sacrificial Lion "Well Done, Son!" Guy Only Known by Their Nickname Our Zombies Are Different Those Two Guys Ghost Fiction Adaptation Distillation Dramatic Gun Cock Death Glare Russian Films Badass Normal Freudian Excuse Let's Get Dangerous! Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Heel Realization