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Running Gag Hope Spot Foil I Did What I Had to Do "Awesome McCool" Name Four-Temperament Ensemble In Medias Res Mind Screw Death of a Child Adapted Out Toplessness from the Back Brick Joke Fate Worse than Death Heel–Face Turn Dull Surprise Our Zombies Are Different Posthumous Character Off-into-the-Distance Ending Christmas Movies Index Black Comedy Rape Adaptation Name Change Your Cheating Heart Names to Run Away from Really Fast Catch-Phrase Victoria's Secret Compartment No OSHA Compliance One Steve Limit Arranged Marriage MacGuffin The Voiceless Made of Explodium Film Series Black Comedy Beta Couple Broken Aesop N-Word Privileges Ascended Extra Beauty Is Never Tarnished Horror Comedy Crapsack World Have a Gay Old Time Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Plucky Comic Relief Chase Scene Femme Fatale Coming-of-Age Story The X of Y Historical Villain Upgrade Love Triangle Australian Movies Character Development Heroes Want Redheads How We Got Here Kill 'em All Super Strength Protagonist Title Only One Name Historical Hero Upgrade As the Good Book Says... 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Anguished Declaration of Love Very Loosely Based on a True Story Ship Tease Reasonable Authority Figure Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Nice Hat Bittersweet Ending Nothing Is Scarier Captain Ersatz Amusing Injuries B-Movie Red Herring Male Frontal Nudity Race Against the Clock Spiteful Spit Ripped from the Headlines Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Leitmotif Combat Pragmatist Overprotective Dad Sassy Black Woman Epic Fail Badass Grandpa Cloudcuckoolander Pretty Little Headshots Villain with Good Publicity Rousing Speech No Name Given Mr. Fanservice timeperiod Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Show Within a Show After the End Dying Moment of Awesome Redemption Equals Death Groin Attack Chekhov's Gunman Not Quite Dead More Dakka Artistic License – Law A Father to His Men Bond One-Liner Cowboy Cop Casting Gag Real Life Almost Kiss Closed Circle Agony of the Feet Blatant Lies Creator Cameo There Is No Kill Like Overkill It's All About Me Scare Chord Big Fancy House Cruel and Unusual Death Asshole Victim And I Must Scream Abusive Parents Bare Your Midriff Get Out! Red Shirt Action Prologue Say My Name The Dragon The Musical Air-Vent Passageway Animated Credits Opening Car Fu Butt-Monkey Gender Flip Armor-Piercing Question Eureka Moment Kids Are Cruel Darker and Edgier The Ace Tap on the Head Offscreen Moment of Awesome Irony Enemy Mine Leave the Camera Running Shown Their Work A.I. Is a Crapshoot Destination Defenestration Hero of Another Story Ungrateful Bastard Break the Cutie Never Trust a Trailer The Mole Badass in a Nice Suit Setting Update Overly Long Gag Parental Abandonment Ominous Latin Chanting Undying Loyalty Bi the Way Japanese Films Missing Mom Contrived Coincidence Authority Equals Asskicking Never My Fault Failed a Spot Check Camera Abuse Rich Bitch Wrong Genre Savvy Rated M for Manly My Beloved Smother All There in the Script Reality Has No Subtitles Creepy Child Thriller Poor Communication Kills Daddy's Girl Hero Antagonist It Will Never Catch On Obstructive Bureaucrat No Celebrities Were Harmed Well-Intentioned Extremist Call-Forward Evil Brit Hell Is That Noise Truth in Television Animal Title Index Fire-Forged Friends Really Gets Around Narrator All for Nothing Big Bad Duumvirate Fish out of Water The Alleged Car Canon Foreigner The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Only a Flesh Wound For Want of a Nail Rule of Funny Male Gaze Hidden Depths Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Heterosexual Life-Partners Reality Ensues Death Seeker I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Not Even Bothering with the Accent Biopic The Smart Guy Faking the Dead Reality Is Unrealistic Improvised Weapon Everyone Has Standards Kubrick Stare The Alcoholic Index of Film Westerns Aside Glance The Cameo Hair-Trigger Temper Manchild Ugly Guy, Hot Wife One-Man Army Nice Guy A Minor Kidroduction From Nobody to Nightmare Freudian Excuse Even Evil Has Standards One-Word Title Early-Bird Cameo Fantastic Racism Jump Scare Dark Action Girl Getting Crap Past the Radar Not So Above It All Time Skip Gratuitous English The '90s Red Right Hand Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Dies Wide Open Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Manipulative Bastard No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Hero Dropped a Bridge on Him The Cavalry Mighty Whitey Frame-Up Fanservice Extra The Bad Guy Wins Dirty Old Man Our Vampires Are Different Flipping the Bird Hoist by His Own Petard Heroic Sacrifice Film Noir Index Meet Cute Alas, Poor Villain Death by Irony Better to Die than Be Killed Mexican Standoff Mythology Gag Idiot Ball The Un-Reveal Meaningful Echo Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Lampshade Hanging Brutal Honesty Insane Troll Logic Establishing Character Moment Up to Eleven Shipper on Deck Epic Movie Those Two Guys Cat Scare Unreliable Narrator Bait-and-Switch Corrupt Corporate Executive Cool Shades I Need a Freaking Drink Spell My Name with an "S" Death Glare Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Off with His Head! Cool Guns Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Not What It Looks Like Not Using the "Z" Word Parental Substitute Jitter Cam Important Haircut Pretty in Mink The Brute Soft Glass Rule of Symbolism Suspiciously Similar Substitute Silence Is Golden Developing Doomed Characters '80s Hair Stealth Hi/Bye Card-Carrying Villain Fatal Flaw Love at First Sight Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Adaptational Badass Bilingual Bonus Cool Old Lady Red Eyes, Take Warning Attempted Rape Rule of Cool "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue He Who Fights Monsters Eyepatch of Power Fantasy Films Ass Shove Those Two Bad Guys Fan Disservice Downer Ending Faux Affably Evil Big Applesauce Conspicuous CG Broken Bird Eldritch Abomination Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy British Films Brainless Beauty All Girls Want Bad Boys Boom, Headshot! 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Drill Sergeant Nasty Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Face Death with Dignity Determinator aka: The Determinator Arch-Enemy Expy Alliterative Name Every Car Is a Pinto Novelization Informed Ability Big-Bad Ensemble Apocalypse How Evil Plan Jerkass Evil Sounds Deep Spiritual Successor Disney Death Italian Films Didn't Think This Through Jerk with a Heart of Gold Comically Missing the Point Non-Indicative Name Wham Line Dissonant Serenity Paper-Thin Disguise Villain Opening Scene Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Hypocrite Wham Shot Stylistic Suck Spanner in the Works Room Full of Crazy Knight Templar Television Movie Index Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Laser-Guided Karma Slap-Slap-Kiss Anti-Villain Redshirt Army Straight Gay Deliberate Values Dissonance Danny Peary Cult Movies List Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The Atoner Worthy Opponent The Sociopath Sequel Escalation Took a Level in Badass True Companions Cool Car Badass Normal Guns Akimbo Re-Cut Artistic License – Military Hollywood Law Market-Based Title Not So Stoic Defiant to the End Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Unusual Euphemism Insult Backfire Even Evil Has Loved Ones Bald of Evil Bad Boss Wretched Hive Damsel in Distress Madness Mantra Cat Fight Skewed Priorities Retirony Costume Porn The Stoner Adaptational Villainy Driven to Suicide Sports Stories Death by Adaptation My God, What Have I Done? Papa Wolf Bar Brawl Double Entendre Berserk Button Soundtrack Dissonance Large Ham Freeze-Frame Bonus Intergenerational Friendship Vampire Fiction Same Language Dub Determinator Suddenly SHOUTING! Defrosting Ice Queen Book-Ends Totally Radical Evil Is Petty Outrun the Fireball Drugs Are Bad Scenery Porn Monumental Damage Deliberately Monochrome Happily Married Bullying a Dragon Becoming the Mask Video Credits Anachronism Stew Ambiguous Disorder Mama Bear Punny Name Naïve Newcomer Parental Neglect Breaking the Fourth Wall Eagleland Meaningful Background Event The Bully Properly Paranoid Bad "Bad Acting" The Dreaded Adaptational Attractiveness Peek-a-Boo Corpse Shout-Out Grey and Gray Morality Romantic Comedy Bottomless Magazines From Bad to Worse Anti-Hero Adult Fear Psycho for Hire Auto Erotica Loophole Abuse Diabolus ex Machina I Have Your Wife Mystery and Detective Films Rape as Drama Sanity Slippage Humiliation Conga Rasputinian Death Twist Ending Badass Longcoat Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Friend to All Children Antagonist Title Shirtless Scene Anyone Can Die folderlabel Obfuscating Stupidity Action Survivor Demonic Possession Dirty Cop Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Body Horror Sacrificial Lion Horror Films Last-Name Basis Exactly What It Says on the Tin Only Known by Their Nickname Evil vs. Evil Famous Last Words Vomit Discretion Shot I Just Shot Marvin in the Face He Knows Too Much The Big Guy She's Got Legs Shell-Shocked Veteran Men Are the Expendable Gender Light Is Not Good Depraved Bisexual Amoral Attorney I'm a Humanitarian Politically Incorrect Villain Humans Are Bastards The Great Depression Evil Laugh Badass Boast La Résistance Bolivian Army Ending Instant Death Bullet Artistic License – Biology The Starscream Chuck Cunningham Syndrome World of Ham Man on Fire Would Hit a Girl Disney Villain Death Kill It with Fire Artistic License – Physics Bloodier and Gorier The Film of the Book What the Hell, Hero? Malevolent Masked Men Fatal Family Photo You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Shoot the Shaggy Dog Black and Gray Morality Funny Foreigner Domestic Abuse Red Oni, Blue Oni Married to the Job Insistent Terminology Moment Killer Half the Man He Used to Be Composite Character Bland-Name Product Documentary Fourth Date Marriage Roaring Rampage of Revenge Science Fiction Films Sir Swears-a-Lot Plot Hole Improbable Weapon User Reckless Gun Usage Serial Killer Vacation Films A God Am I German Films Tagline Mr. Exposition Adorkable Make It Look Like an Accident The Vamp Riddle for the Ages Real Life Writes the Plot Recycled IN SPACE! For the Evulz Never Found the Body Serious Business Word of God Artistic License – Geography Unresolved Sexual Tension Evil Counterpart Cluster F-Bomb My Greatest Failure Kick the Dog Celebrity Paradox Black Dude Dies First Credits Gag Too Dumb to Live Bowdlerise Babies Ever After Pimped-Out Dress Villain Song A Date with Rosie Palms Expository Hairstyle Change Dutch Angle "Well Done, Son!" Guy Offscreen Teleportation Taking the Bullet Fingore Dumb Blonde Chewing the Scenery Manic Pixie Dream Girl Works Set in World War II Implacable Man Hooker with a Heart of Gold Drowning My Sorrows Film Noir Logo Joke Author Avatar Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Due to the Dead Wounded Gazelle Gambit Hong Kong Films Villain Protagonist Pet the Dog Belligerent Sexual Tension "The Reason You Suck" Speech All Just a Dream Token Minority All There in the Manual Martial Arts Movie Bound and Gagged Action Genre You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Mercy Kill Pre-Mortem One-Liner Adults Are Useless Deal with the Devil Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies What Happened to the Mouse? 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Adaptation Dye-Job Bunny-Ears Lawyer Deadpan Snarker Hollywood Darkness Continuity Nod Big Eater Chekhov's Gun Silent Movie Would Hurt a Child Scenery Gorn Shower Scene Pay Evil unto Evil Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil She Cleans Up Nicely The Lost Lenore Early Installment Weirdness Despair Event Horizon Unusually Uninteresting Sight As Himself Fainting Bond Villain Stupidity Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Mistaken for Gay Stalker with a Crush Manly Tears Only Sane Man Throwing Your Sword Always Works An Axe to Grind Superhero Framing Device Stuff Blowing Up Canadian Movies An Aesop Big "NO!" Cool Old Guy Loads and Loads of Characters Visual Pun Psychopathic Manchild Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Woman in White Translation Convention Trailers Always Spoil Empathic Environment Country Matters Bring My Brown Pants Affably Evil Woman Scorned Precision F-Strike French Films Crazy-Prepared Disguised in Drag Dramedy Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Drives Like Crazy No Antagonist Parental Incest Cold-Blooded Torture Evil Cannot Comprehend Good All Men Are Perverts Homage Dogged Nice Guy Camp Gay Interrupted Suicide Brother–Sister Incest Retcon Chiaroscuro Grievous Bottley Harm Evil-Detecting Dog Unspoken Plan Guarantee Accidental Murder Killed Mid-Sentence Wicked Cultured Training Montage Historical-Domain Character Smoking Is Cool Neck Snap Guile Hero Central Theme Lock and Load Montage Bloodless Carnage Fiery Redhead Left the Background Music On Face–Heel Turn War Is Hell Facial Horror Punctuated! For! Emphasis! The '50s Pragmatic Adaptation Scary Black Man The Chessmaster Race Lift Calling the Old Man Out The Faceless Vitriolic Best Buds Call-Back Easily Forgiven Ambiguously Gay No Ending The Load Hate Sink Playing Gertrude No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Distracted by the Sexy Eiffel Tower Effect Mugging the Monster Stepford Smiler Big Damn Heroes Beware the Nice Ones Accidental Misnaming Ghost Fiction Stealth Pun Curb-Stomp Battle Anachronic Order Cain and Abel Adaptation Distillation Big Brother Instinct BFG The Stinger It's Personal Improbable Aiming Skills Mooks Catapult Nightmare Fanservice Gainax Ending Black Best Friend Artistic License – Gun Safety Covers Always Lie Punch-Clock Villain Let's Get Dangerous! Genre Savvy Back from the Dead Put on a Bus Final Girl Immune to Bullets Dark Reprise Older Than They Look Imagine Spot Made of Iron Curse Cut Short Demoted to Extra Heel Realization Laughing Mad