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Mr. Exposition Bittersweet Ending Evil Laugh Poor Communication Kills The Load Catch-Phrase Even Evil Has Loved Ones Bi the Way Vitriolic Best Buds Outrun the Fireball Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Driven to Suicide Never Trust a Trailer Real Life Dirty Cop Hero Antagonist Big Eater Kick the Son of a Bitch Crazy Jealous Guy Stylistic Suck Nice Hat Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Chase Scene Badass Bookworm You Have Failed Me Sadistic Choice Bloody Hilarious The Brute Batman Gambit After the End Arranged Marriage Tap on the Head Not So Stoic Sexy Discretion Shot Manic Pixie Dream Girl Redshirt Army Bilingual Bonus Amoral Attorney Police Brutality Brutal Honesty Karmic Death Deus ex Machina Names to Run Away from Really Fast Easily Forgiven Hypocritical Humor The Un-Reveal Domestic Abuse Took a Level in Jerkass Irony Auto Erotica Rule of Cool Laughing Mad Bunny-Ears Lawyer Imagine Spot Rousing Speech No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Red Shirt Wrong Genre Savvy Does This Remind You of Anything? Five-Man Band Only Sane Man Horror Films It Will Never Catch On Villain with Good Publicity Death by Sex Car Fu Jerkass Overly Long Gag Hidden Depths No-Sell Face–Heel Turn Twist Ending Lock and Load Montage Deadpan Snarker Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Anti-Villain Immune to Bullets Cain and Abel Dies Wide Open Gilligan Cut Undying Loyalty Call-Forward Retired Badass Male Frontal Nudity Failed a Spot Check Dull Surprise Defiant to the End "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue The Faceless Artistic License – History Christmas Movies Index Film Series Anyone Can Die Obstructive Bureaucrat Pimped-Out Dress Ambiguous Disorder Dutch Angle Anachronic Order Artistic License – Biology Malevolent Masked Men Our Zombies Are Different Betty and Veronica Becoming the Mask The Stinger Butt-Monkey Spared by the Adaptation Translation Convention Extreme Doormat Revenge Contrived Coincidence Setting Update The '90s Mystery and Detective Films Implacable Man Anti-Hero Deliberate Values Dissonance I'm a Humanitarian Product Placement What You Are in the Dark Wounded Gazelle Gambit Worthy Opponent Mr. Fanservice Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Intergenerational Friendship Take a Third Option Early Installment Weirdness O.O.C. Is Serious Business Bound and Gagged Knife Nut Adorkable Dark Reprise Does Not Like Shoes The Alcoholic Vacation Films Department of Redundancy Department Antagonist Title Artistic License – Military Rule of Three Would Hit a Girl Accidental Murder Drill Sergeant Nasty Silence Is Golden Heel–Face Turn Offscreen Moment of Awesome The Chessmaster Stealth Hi/Bye Black Best Friend Jitter Cam Shipper on Deck Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Not So Above It All Pet the Dog Eyepatch of Power Evil Is Petty Establishing Character Moment All Girls Want Bad Boys Death by Adaptation Title Drop Truth in Television Reckless Gun Usage Television Movie Index Danny Peary Cult Movies List Kids Are Cruel Handicapped Badass Adaptation Distillation Animal Motifs The Great Depression Let's Get Dangerous! The Dreaded The Sociopath Race Lift Those Wacky Nazis Neck Snap Those Two Bad Guys Shower Scene Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Cruel and Unusual Death I Did What I Had to Do Greater-Scope Villain Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Taking the Bullet Curb-Stomp Battle Once More, with Clarity! Nothing Is Scarier Alpha Bitch The Smart Guy Tranquil Fury Beard of Evil Rule of Symbolism For the Evulz Credits Gag Meaningful Name Death Glare Adaptational Attractiveness Bond One-Liner All There in the Script Cassandra Truth NO INDOOR VOICE Dropped a Bridge on Him Bring My Brown Pants Abhorrent Admirer Blatant Lies Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Narrator Mugging the Monster Fainting Dumb Blonde Funny Foreigner Deconstruction Slasher Smile Belligerent Sexual Tension Overprotective Dad Determinator aka: The Determinator Mooks British Films Super Strength The X of Y Mighty Whitey No Name Given Actor Allusion Only in It for the Money Stock Footage Smug Snake Fanservice Extra Friend to All Children Broken Pedestal Half the Man He Used to Be Hair-Trigger Temper The Ace Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Insistent Terminology "Awesome McCool" Name Shell-Shocked Veteran Sequel Escalation Humans Are Bastards Brick Joke Cloudcuckoolander Unresolved Sexual Tension Silent Movie In Name Only Big-Bad Ensemble Get Out! Evil Counterpart Recycled IN SPACE! A Father to His Men Age Lift Naïve Newcomer Historical Hero Upgrade Hell Is That Noise The End... Or Is It? Advertised Extra Awesome, but Impractical The Casanova No OSHA Compliance Depraved Bisexual Plucky Comic Relief War Is Hell Bare Your Midriff Dirty Coward She Cleans Up Nicely Dark Is Not Evil Punch-Clock Villain Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Knight Templar Celebrity Paradox Blood Knight The Voiceless All for Nothing Adaptation Expansion Retirony Loophole Abuse No Antagonist I Need a Freaking Drink '80s Hair Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Adults Are Useless Fat Bastard Trailers Always Spoil MacGuffin Getting Crap Past the Radar Japanese Films Adaptational Villainy All Just a Dream Cool Old Guy Cool Shades Coming-of-Age Story Public Domain Feature Films Police are Useless Spiteful Spit Fan Disservice Scenery Gorn Double-Meaning Title Horror Comedy Animated Credits Opening Cold-Blooded Torture Jump Scare Bottomless Magazines Big Bad Duumvirate Brother–Sister Incest Sacrificial Lion A God Am I What the Hell, Hero? 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May–December Romance Lampshade Hanging The Vamp Character Development Match Cut As Long as It Sounds Foreign Casting Gag Kill 'em All Beware the Nice Ones Guns Akimbo Room Full of Crazy Ominous Latin Chanting Ship Tease Aluminum Christmas Trees Spiritual Successor "Well Done, Son!" Guy Book-Ends The Bad Guy Wins Leitmotif Word of God Wretched Hive Actually Pretty Funny Bad "Bad Acting" Totally Radical Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold One-Man Army Rule of Funny Bolivian Army Ending Camera Abuse Empathic Environment Red Oni, Blue Oni Naked People Are Funny Annoying Younger Sibling Rich Bitch You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! The '50s All Men Are Perverts Improbable Aiming Skills Developing Doomed Characters Adapted Out Fake Shemp Beta Couple Fiery Redhead Corpsing Disproportionate Retribution Good Is Not Nice Cowboy Cop Be Careful What You Wish For Arch-Enemy N-Word Privileges Funny Background Event The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Zombie Stories It's All About Me Eagleland Redemption Equals Death Romantic False Lead Mercy Kill Shoot the Shaggy Dog The Hero Refuge in Audacity Scary Black Man Eldritch Abomination Smoking Is Cool More Dakka timeperiod Vomit Indiscretion Shot Author Avatar Broken Aesop Faking the Dead Re-Cut Sanity Slippage BFG Film Noir Happily Married My Beloved Smother Fourth Date Marriage Race Against the Clock Scare Chord Authority Equals Asskicking Mythology Gag Spanner in the Works Alliterative Name Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Pretty in Mink Mundane Made Awesome Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Villain Ball Would Hurt a Child Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Film Noir Index Not What It Looks Like Alas, Poor Villain The Big Guy Men Are the Expendable Gender Big Bad Lighter and Softer Pre-Mortem One-Liner Children Are Innocent Older Than They Look Cool Old Lady The Oner Not So Different Dramatic Irony Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Babies Ever After Composite Character Only Known by Their Nickname This Is Gonna Suck Bait-and-Switch True Companions Breaking the Fourth Wall Hope Spot Throwing Your Sword Always Works Light Is Not Good An Aesop Taking You with Me Award-Bait Song Psychopathic Manchild The Stoic Obfuscating Stupidity The Lancer Too Dumb to Live folderlabel Agony of the Feet I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Logo Joke World of Ham Covers Always Lie Body Horror Big Brother Instinct The Lost Lenore Rated M for Manly Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Disappeared Dad Suspiciously Similar Substitute Love at First Sight Even Evil Has Standards Ripped from the Headlines Major Injury Underreaction Ass Shove Villainous Breakdown The Hero Dies Humiliation Conga Did Not Get the Girl Dogged Nice Guy Mood Whiplash No Ending Storming the Castle Bury Your Gays Bavarian Fire Drill My Greatest Failure Artistic License – Physics Evil Brit Sci-Fi Horror Shout-Out Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Freeze-Frame Bonus Catapult Nightmare Cat Scare Exact Words Roaring Rampage of Revenge Crapsack World Manchild Retcon Bullying a Dragon Creator Cameo Dual Wielding Biopic Australian Movies Canon Foreigner Screw This, I'm Outta Here! And I Must Scream Anguished Declaration of Love Jerkass Has a Point Beauty Is Never Tarnished As the Good Book Says... Straight Gay Amusing Injuries Important Haircut Fun with Acronyms Disney Villain Death Card-Carrying Villain Bloodless Carnage Loads and Loads of Characters Heroes Want Redheads Corrupt Corporate Executive Fantasy Films The '60s Four-Temperament Ensemble The Cameo Action Prologue The '70s Aside Glance Historical In-Joke Riddle for the Ages The Dog Bites Back Plot Hole Kill It with Fire In Medias Res Genre Savvy Your Cheating Heart Small Name, Big Ego Punctuated! For! Emphasis! The Smurfette Principle Reality Is Unrealistic Double Entendre Sassy Black Woman Break the Haughty Anachronism Stew Central Theme Unusual Euphemism Punny Name Death of a Child Evil Sounds Deep Bland-Name Product Idiot Ball Playing Gertrude Asshole Victim The Mole Red Eyes, Take Warning Noodle Incident Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Ungrateful Bastard Non-Indicative Name Real Life Writes the Plot Off-into-the-Distance Ending Line-of-Sight Name Crucified Hero Shot It's Personal An Arm and a Leg Politically Incorrect Villain Rewatch Bonus Evil Is Hammy Instant Death Bullet Flipping the Bird Superhero Disney Death The Cavalry Distracted by the Sexy Action Girl Not Quite Dead Left the Background Music On Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism 20 Minutes into the Future Green-Eyed Monster The Starscream Action Genre Take That! Groin Attack Dramedy Black Dude Dies First Mad Scientist Works Set in World War II Foreshadowing Parental Substitute Reasonable Authority Figure Big Fancy House Whole Plot Reference Parental Neglect Mama Bear Missing Mom Badass Boast Epic Movie Vampire Fiction Soft Glass Reality Has No Subtitles Arc Words Destination Defenestration The Bully Never My Fault How We Got Here Pyrrhic Victory Jerk Jock Psycho for Hire Skewed Priorities Camp Gay She's Got Legs Tagline Boom, Headshot! 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German Films Call-Back Soundtrack Dissonance Stalker with a Crush Index of Film Westerns Badass Longcoat Conspicuous CG Improbable Weapon User Artistic License – Law Attempted Rape Big Damn Heroes Back from the Dead The Atoner Continuity Nod Documentary Heel Realization Meaningful Background Event Hypocrite Homage Manly Tears Laser-Guided Karma Eiffel Tower Effect Apocalypse How The Mafia Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Leaning on the Fourth Wall Ascended Extra Evil Cannot Comprehend Good One Steve Limit B-Movie Badass in a Nice Suit Moment Killer Curse Cut Short Unwitting Instigator of Doom Woman in White Death by Irony Karma Houdini Obviously Evil And the Adventure Continues Due to the Dead Martial Arts Movie Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Early-Bird Cameo Adaptation Dye-Job Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Insult Backfire Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Star-Crossed Lovers Sequel Hook Same Language Dub Made of Iron Rape as Drama Cool Guns Bar Brawl Cluster F-Bomb Self-Deprecation The Reveal Dark and Troubled Past Ambiguous Ending Didn't Think This Through Random Events Plot Large Ham Berserk Button Gorn Sinister Minister Eye Scream Despair Event Horizon Love Triangle Thriller In the Back Sole Survivor Slasher Movie Papa Wolf Interrupted Suicide Wicked Cultured Slashed Throat Meaningful Echo Improvised Weapon Gold Digger Novelization Calling the Old Man Out Stuff Blowing Up Precision F-Strike Chiaroscuro Our Vampires Are Different Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Sealed Evil in a Can Dramatic Gun Cock Action Survivor Blood from the Mouth Unusually Uninteresting Sight Hollywood Law Put on a Bus I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Evil Plan Villain Song Fish out of Water Fantastic Racism Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Gone Horribly Right Make It Look Like an Accident Adaptational Heroism Affectionate Parody Fate Worse than Death Informed Ability Token Minority Damsel in Distress Insane Troll Logic Up to Eleven Those Two Guys Face Death with Dignity From Nobody to Nightmare Bowdlerise Ms. Fanservice Everyone Has Standards For Want of a Nail Demoted to Extra Have a Gay Old Time Science Fiction Films The Musical Here We Go Again! 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