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German Films Badass Bookworm Accidental Misnaming Amoral Attorney He Knows Too Much Cat Fight Canadian Movies Beard of Evil The Musical Big Applesauce Title Drop Mundane Made Awesome Fatal Family Photo Children Are Innocent Ambiguous Disorder Australian Movies Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Hypocrite She Cleans Up Nicely Trailers Always Spoil Ambiguous Ending Cruel and Unusual Death Scare Chord Bilingual Bonus Brick Joke Wretched Hive The Mole Taking the Bullet Shoot the Shaggy Dog Hero Antagonist Leaning on the Fourth Wall Foil Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Shipper on Deck Bad Boss Fire-Forged Friends Artistic License – Gun Safety Every Car Is a Pinto Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Character Development Freeze-Frame Bonus Evil vs. Evil I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Psychological Thriller Punch-Clock Villain Arch-Enemy Rich Bitch All Girls Want Bad Boys Room Full of Crazy Badass in a Nice Suit Eldritch Abomination Abhorrent Admirer Mugging the Monster Animal Motifs The Un-Reveal Music Stories Dull Surprise You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! The Great Depression Framing Device Four-Temperament Ensemble Alpha Bitch Show Within a Show Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas More Dakka Sports Stories Even Evil Has Standards Drugs Are Bad The Load Leitmotif Exactly What It Says on the Tin Bring My Brown Pants Outrun the Fireball Knife Nut Chase Scene Pragmatic Villainy The Cavalry Beta Couple Dogged Nice Guy Older Than They Look Last-Name Basis Determinator aka: The Determinator Bi the Way Evil Plan Fanservice Extra From Bad to Worse Flashback Cloudcuckoolander One Steve Limit Manchild Rasputinian Death The Remake Spiritual Successor Lighter and Softer Butt-Monkey Faux Affably Evil Sci-Fi Horror Woman in White Whole Plot Reference The Dreaded Spanner in the Works Mercy Kill Arc Words Creepy Child Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Adaptation Expansion Adaptational Badass Film Noir Index 20 Minutes into the Future Epic Fail Red Eyes, Take Warning Fanservice The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Ripped from the Headlines Author Appeal Dramatic Irony Tempting Fate And Starring Bloodless Carnage Plot Hole Drill Sergeant Nasty Suspiciously Specific Denial Took a Level in Jerkass Black Best Friend Fat Bastard Villain Ball Gender Flip Adaptational Heroism Disappeared Dad Sacrificial Lion Did Not Get the Girl Death of a Child Spell My Name with an "S" Fan Disservice Real Life Roaring Rampage of Revenge Have a Gay Old Time Daddy's Girl As Long as It Sounds Foreign Dissonant Serenity Despair Event Horizon Heel Realization Betty and Veronica Big Bad Serious Business Training Montage "Shaggy Dog" Story Hoist by His Own Petard It Will Never Catch On Bond One-Liner Male Frontal Nudity Male Gaze Disney Villain Death The Hero The Ghost Intrepid Reporter Camera Abuse Humans Are Bastards Creator Cameo Logo Joke Stealth Pun Rule of Symbolism Offscreen Moment of Awesome Gorn Kids Are Cruel Wounded Gazelle Gambit Casting Gag Bound and Gagged Call-Forward Fantastic Racism Leave the Camera Running Reality Ensues Nice Guy Fate Worse than Death Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Car Fu Evil Is Petty Due to the Dead The Stoic Faking the Dead Public Domain Feature Films Race Lift Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Guy Downer Ending Didn't Think This Through Humiliation Conga Our Zombies Are Different Match Cut Very Loosely Based on a True Story Demoted to Extra Rated M for Manly Would Hit a Girl Tap on the Head Knight Templar Combat Pragmatist Corrupt Corporate Executive Cat Scare Jerk with a Heart of Gold Action Prologue Improbable Weapon User Pay Evil unto Evil Drives Like Crazy Pre-Mortem One-Liner From Nobody to Nightmare "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue The Bad Guy Wins The Atoner Heterosexual Life-Partners Broken Bird Nothing Is Scarier Crapsack World No Ending Not So Stoic Monumental Damage Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Almost Kiss Central Theme Unusually Uninteresting Sight Foreshadowing Pet the Dog Zombie Stories Hell Is That Noise Hooker with a Heart of Gold Action Girl Vomit Discretion Shot Obfuscating Stupidity Adaptation Distillation Wrong Genre Savvy Sequel Escalation Noodle Incident Hero of Another Story Love Triangle The Film of the Book Recycled IN SPACE! All There in the Manual Would Hurt a Child Epic Movie Sexy Discretion Shot Coming-of-Age Story Babies Ever After Chiaroscuro Captain Obvious Disney Death Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Driven to Suicide Historical In-Joke Heroes Want Redheads A Father to His Men Antagonist Title Extremely Short Timespan Aside Glance Bullying a Dragon Failed a Spot Check Expy Hate Sink Anachronic Order Laughing Mad Artistic License – Biology Never Found the Body Slasher Movie The Starscream Artistic License – Law Funny Background Event World of Ham Handicapped Badass Pretty in Mink Jerkass Attempted Rape Daylight Horror Action Genre Advertised Extra Guile Hero Jerk Jock Your Head A-Splode The Smart Guy Yandere Crucified Hero Shot Badass Grandpa Precision F-Strike Protagonist Title A Minor Kidroduction Totally Radical Only One Name Smug Snake Insane Troll Logic Cain and Abel Grey and Gray Morality It's All About Me Anti-Hero Adaptational Villainy Rule of Cool Woman Scorned Accidental Murder Ascended Extra Red Right Hand Ass Shove Wham Shot Loads and Loads of Characters Stalker with a Crush Gainax Ending Same Language Dub Big Brother Instinct Worthy Opponent Suspiciously Similar Substitute Never Trust a Trailer Wicked Cultured Horror Comedy Ambiguously Gay There Is No Kill Like Overkill Black Dude Dies First Anyone Can Die Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Informed Ability Made of Explodium Meet Cute Adaptation Name Change Dark Is Not Evil The Oner How We Got Here For Want of a Nail Stylistic Suck Destination Defenestration Science Fiction Films Determinator Kill 'em All Shirtless Scene As Himself Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Cool Old Guy Bunny-Ears Lawyer Stock Footage Storming the Castle All for Nothing Hair-Trigger Temper Major Injury Underreaction In Name Only Badass Boast Heroic BSoD O.O.C. Is Serious Business Ironic Echo La Résistance Animal Title Index Only Sane Man Eagleland Bittersweet Ending My God, What Have I Done? It's Personal Sassy Black Woman Shell-Shocked Veteran Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold No Name Given Implacable Man Line-of-Sight Name Blackmail Papa Wolf Auto Erotica Soundtrack Dissonance In the Back Death by Sex Scenery Porn Adult Fear Fourth Date Marriage Green-Eyed Monster Fatal Flaw Greater-Scope Villain Unresolved Sexual Tension Defiant to the End Animated Credits Opening '80s Hair Deus ex Machina The Quiet One Early-Bird Cameo No Antagonist NO INDOOR VOICE Developing Doomed Characters Revenge Bolivian Army Ending Slashed Throat Anachronism Stew Good Is Not Nice Unusual Euphemism The '70s Adults Are Useless Playing Gertrude A.I. Is a Crapshoot Narrator Take That! Big Fancy House Let's Get Dangerous! I Did What I Had to Do Romantic Comedy Gilligan Cut Dual Wielding Adapted Out Back from the Dead Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Setting Update Femme Fatale Villain Protagonist Happily Married Neck Snap Mind Screw Beauty Is Never Tarnished Missing Mom Mythology Gag Rousing Speech Mad Scientist Gory Discretion Shot Gold Digger Psycho for Hire Peek-a-Boo Corpse Not Even Bothering with the Accent Bowdlerise I Have Your Wife Eyepatch of Power Overly Long Gag Japanese Films Becoming the Mask Index of Film Westerns Slap-Slap-Kiss Re-Cut Mr. Fanservice Random Events Plot Translation Convention The Sociopath Camp Gay Intergenerational Friendship Genre Throwback Insult Backfire Took a Level in Badass Cool Old Lady Adaptational Attractiveness Those Wacky Nazis Getting Crap Past the Radar Extreme Doormat Those Two Guys Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Star-Crossed Lovers Black Comedy After the End Contrived Coincidence The X of Y Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Mistaken for Gay Retired Badass Immune to Bullets Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Broken Aesop Oh, Crap! Adaptation Dye-Job Works Set in World War II Drowning My Sorrows Brother–Sister Incest Only a Flesh Wound Evil Sounds Deep Imagine Spot Light Is Not Good Book-Ends Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Actually Pretty Funny Blatant Lies No OSHA Compliance Historical Villain Upgrade Card-Carrying Villain Breaking the Fourth Wall B-Movie Break the Cutie Fiery Redhead Groin Attack I Need a Freaking Drink What the Hell, Hero? Armor-Piercing Question Your Cheating Heart Affably Evil All Men Are Perverts Obstructive Bureaucrat Mr. Exposition Dies Wide Open Meaningful Name You Killed My Father Decoy Protagonist Hong Kong Films Arranged Marriage The Ditz The '60s Reckless Gun Usage As You Know Paper-Thin Disguise Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Brainless Beauty Distracted by the Sexy Meaningful Echo Toplessness from the Back Shout-Out Parental Neglect Action Survivor Composite Character Belligerent Sexual Tension Ungrateful Bastard Kick the Dog Take a Third Option The Lancer Manly Tears Parental Incest Manipulative Bastard Darker and Edgier I'm a Humanitarian Rule of Funny Bloodier and Gorier The End... Or Is It? Left the Background Music On Super Strength Sadistic Choice Tagline Scenery Gorn Up to Eleven Film Noir Captain Ersatz Death by Irony One-Man Army Bond Villain Stupidity Artistic License – Geography Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Dirty Cop Dumb Blonde An Axe to Grind Laser-Guided Karma The Chessmaster Psychopathic Manchild Sole Survivor Malevolent Masked Men Film Series Alas, Poor Villain Visual Pun Improbable Aiming Skills Break the Haughty Instant Death Bullet Motor Mouth Obviously Evil Alliterative Name Ominous Latin Chanting Reality Is Unrealistic And the Adventure Continues Brutal Honesty The Vamp Ghost Fiction Silent Movie Romantic False Lead Fun with Acronyms Dramatic Gun Cock Big Eater Dark Reprise Aluminum Christmas Trees Annoying Younger Sibling Berserk Button Department of Redundancy Department Real Life Writes the Plot Demonic Possession Big Bad Duumvirate timeperiod Pragmatic Adaptation Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Face Death with Dignity Author Avatar Kick the Son of a Bitch Guns Akimbo Say My Name The Brute Corpsing Karmic Death Badass Normal Spiteful Spit Suddenly SHOUTING! folderlabel Evil Is Hammy The Alcoholic Madness Mantra Put on a Bus Television Movie Index The Faceless Big "NO!" Bait-and-Switch Off-into-the-Distance Ending Face–Heel Turn Man on Fire Morality Pet Early Installment Weirdness Villain Opening Scene Those Two Bad Guys Conspicuous CG Nice Hat Posthumous Character Stuff Blowing Up Reasonable Authority Figure My Greatest Failure Important Haircut Defrosting Ice Queen War Is Hell Catapult Nightmare Eureka Moment "The Reason You Suck" Speech Double-Meaning Title The Smurfette Principle Pyrrhic Victory The Stinger Unreliable Narrator Red Oni, Blue Oni Not So Different Cassandra Truth And I Must Scream Vacation Films Dark and Troubled Past Closed Circle The Chick Kubrick Stare Cowboy Cop Darkest Hour The Cameo Genre Shift Deadpan Snarker Police are Useless Made of Iron Age Lift Dirty Coward Hypocritical Humor Not What It Looks Like Russian Films Moment Killer Bad "Bad Acting" Bland-Name Product Continuity Nod Not So Above It All Small Name, Big Ego Overprotective Dad Dark Action Girl Asshole Victim Martial Arts Movie The Reveal You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The Dragon No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Eiffel Tower Effect Ms. Fanservice Redemption Equals Death The '50s Gone Horribly Right Offscreen Teleportation BFG Soft Glass She's Got Legs Dying Moment of Awesome The Hero Dies Unspoken Plan Guarantee Rule of Three Cool Car Together in Death The Power of Love Neck Lift Fainting Rewatch Bonus Abusive Parents Bar Brawl Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Interrupted Suicide Air-Vent Passageway True Companions Maybe Ever After Twist Ending The Ace Gratuitous English Does This Remind You of Anything? No-Sell An Arm and a Leg Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane In Medias Res Riddle for the Ages Mood Whiplash Serial Killer Foregone Conclusion Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Friend to All Children The Place Mooks What Happened to the Mouse? Really Gets Around Flipping the Bird Artistic License – History Big-Bad Ensemble Meaningful Background Event Disguised in Drag Cool Shades Mama Bear Curb-Stomp Battle Ax-Crazy Retcon The '80s Vitriolic Best Buds You Have Failed Me Celebrity Paradox Idiot Ball Evil-Detecting Dog Sanity Slippage Dramedy Exact Words Canon Foreigner Death by Adaptation Stealth Hi/Bye Kill It with Fire Married to the Job Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Does Not Like Shoes Taking You with Me Mighty Whitey Award-Bait Song Sinister Minister Large Ham Actor Allusion Loophole Abuse Homage Horror Films Black Comedy Rape Dirty Old Man Adorkable MacGuffin Heel–Face Turn Military and Warfare Films Get Out! Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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