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Laser-Guided Karma Creative Closing Credits And the Adventure Continues I'm a Humanitarian Light Is Not Good Hypocrite Alas, Poor Villain You Killed My Father Novelization Breaking the Fourth Wall Shout-Out Dramatic Irony Stock Footage Works Set in World War II Re-Cut Half the Man He Used to Be It's All About Me La Résistance Disguised in Drag Action Prologue Famous Last Words Red Eyes, Take Warning Happily Married Throwing Your Sword Always Works Eagleland Bowdlerise For the Evulz Sanity Slippage I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Beware the Nice Ones Improvised Weapon The Stoner Insane Troll Logic Together in Death The Sociopath Stalker with a Crush Insult Backfire Men Are the Expendable Gender The Lancer Artistic License – History Agony of the Feet Author Appeal Maybe Ever After Shut Up, Hannibal! Awesome, but Impractical Knife Nut Your Cheating Heart Defiant to the End Parental Incest Ambiguously Gay Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Mundane Made Awesome Becoming the Mask Villain Ball Implacable Man Hollywood Darkness Expository Hairstyle Change Big Damn Heroes Bar Brawl From Nobody to Nightmare Pyrrhic Victory Didn't Think This Through Real Life Writes the Plot In the Back Fanservice Villain with Good Publicity No Antagonist Bound and Gagged Funny Foreigner Better to Die than Be Killed Drugs Are Bad Armor-Piercing Question Rule of Symbolism Corrupt Corporate Executive Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Fate Worse than Death Pretty Little Headshots Kill 'em All Redshirt Army Cool Guns Anguished Declaration of Love Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Whole Plot Reference After the End The Film of the Book German Films Action Genre Mr. Exposition As Himself Very Loosely Based on a True Story Card-Carrying Villain Determinator Italian Films Break the Cutie Fourth Date Marriage Police are Useless Evil Brit Adorkable Japanese Films Deconstruction The Stoic Evil Laugh Roaring Rampage of Revenge Babies Ever After Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Science Fiction Films Dissonant Serenity Film Noir Villain Protagonist Pimped-Out Dress '80s Hair Obstructive Bureaucrat All Just a Dream Wham Shot Bury Your Gays I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Alliterative Name Hate Sink Bavarian Fire Drill Ironic Echo Red Shirt Make It Look Like an Accident World of Ham Ripped from the Headlines Title Drop A Date with Rosie Palms It's Personal Stealth Pun folderlabel Hooker with a Heart of Gold Cool Car Comically Missing the Point I Have Your Wife Disproportionate Retribution Action Survivor Faux Affably Evil Faking the Dead Public Domain Feature Films Redemption Equals Death No-Sell Martial Arts Movie Drill Sergeant Nasty Wretched Hive Ax-Crazy Really Gets Around Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Composite Character Conspicuous CG Interrupted Suicide Betty and Veronica Fat Bastard Race Lift He Knows Too Much Rape as Drama Spared by the Adaptation Our Zombies Are Different Cat Fight The Bully Meaningful Name Call-Forward The Mafia All Girls Want Bad Boys Does This Remind You of Anything? Adaptational Attractiveness You Have Failed Me Beard of Evil The Stinger Retired Badass Wicked Cultured Only in It for the Money Unspoken Plan Guarantee A Father to His Men Real Life Dark Is Not Evil For Want of a Nail Only a Flesh Wound Up to Eleven Mood Whiplash Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Cloudcuckoolander Paper-Thin Disguise Reality Ensues "Shaggy Dog" Story Never Trust a Trailer Creepy Child Rated M for Manly Almost Kiss Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Let's Get Dangerous! Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Slashed Throat Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Bald of Evil Adaptational Villainy Affably Evil Malevolent Masked Men Blackmail Artistic License – Military Mystery and Detective Films Action Girl Fire-Forged Friends Pet the Dog Suspiciously Similar Substitute Not Using the "Z" Word Intrepid Reporter Sassy Black Woman Adaptational Badass Only Sane Man Psychopathic Manchild Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Race Against the Clock Idiot Ball "The Reason You Suck" Speech Black Comedy Authority Equals Asskicking Red Herring Spanner in the Works Heroic BSoD All There in the Manual Oh, Crap! One-Man Army How We Got Here Anti-Hero Vampire Fiction True Companions Chiaroscuro Dark Reprise Pragmatic Villainy Match Cut Actually Pretty Funny Adaptation Distillation Big Brother Instinct Greater-Scope Villain Dual Wielding The Reveal Recycled IN SPACE! Stuff Blowing Up The Casanova Undying Loyalty Captain Obvious Psycho for Hire Historical In-Joke Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Show Within a Show A Minor Kidroduction Kick the Son of a Bitch Plot Hole Suddenly SHOUTING! Say My Name Belligerent Sexual Tension Demoted to Extra Woman Scorned Scenery Gorn Ambiguous Ending Artistic License – Biology Genre Savvy The Hero Dies The Vamp Morality Pet Bloodless Carnage Combat Pragmatist Brainless Beauty Cowboy Cop Boom, Headshot! Aside Glance Insistent Terminology Cruel and Unusual Death Cool Shades Informed Ability Ghost Fiction Kill It with Fire Bloody Hilarious Decoy Protagonist Worthy Opponent Woman in White Bad "Bad Acting" Immune to Bullets Wounded Gazelle Gambit Retirony From Bad to Worse Failed a Spot Check Hoist by His Own Petard Aluminum Christmas Trees All Men Are Perverts Word of God Eyepatch of Power The Starscream A.I. Is a Crapshoot Big Applesauce Crapsack World Toplessness from the Back Cold-Blooded Torture Accidental Misnaming Death of a Child The Oner Handicapped Badass Blatant Lies Those Two Bad Guys Cat Scare Bond Villain Stupidity Even Evil Has Standards Anachronism Stew Unreliable Narrator Actor Allusion Sacrificial Lion Dark Action Girl Taking the Bullet Sequel Escalation Sequel Hook May–December Romance Madness Mantra Noodle Incident Big "NO!" Daddy's Girl The Brute Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Deadpan Snarker Rewatch Bonus Epic Fail Big Fancy House The Ace Crazy Jealous Guy Nice Guy Camera Abuse Karma Houdini The Quiet One Mistaken for Gay Non-Indicative Name Meaningful Echo Evil Is Hammy Too Dumb to Live Silence Is Golden Overprotective Dad Bottomless Magazines Flipping the Bird Would Hit a Girl Dark and Troubled Past Closed Circle Leitmotif One Steve Limit Reckless Gun Usage Friend to All Children Bullying a Dragon Tranquil Fury Overly Long Gag A God Am I "Well Done, Son!" Guy Bad Boss Hell Is That Noise Broken Pedestal Gone Horribly Right Reasonable Authority Figure Vomit Discretion Shot MacGuffin Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Alpha Bitch Mr. Fanservice Posthumous Character The Ditz Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Historical Villain Upgrade Reality Has No Subtitles Shoot the Shaggy Dog Honor Before Reason Tempting Fate Bait-and-Switch Villainous Breakdown Dull Surprise Running Gag Sir Swears-a-Lot The Alcoholic Central Theme Ascended Extra Groin Attack B-Movie Cool Old Lady Reality Is Unrealistic Freeze-Frame Bonus Russian Films The Voiceless Air-Vent Passageway Not Even Bothering with the Accent Dying Moment of Awesome Ominous Latin Chanting Jump Scare Humiliation Conga The Hero Peek-a-Boo Corpse Setting Update Parental Abandonment Product Placement Earn Your Happy Ending Blood from the Mouth Costume Porn Arranged Marriage Every Car Is a Pinto Homage Mexican Standoff Fingore Five-Man Band Unresolved Sexual Tension Bring My Brown Pants Big-Bad Ensemble Early Installment Weirdness Death Glare Badass in a Nice Suit Badass Boast Framing Device Vitriolic Best Buds Fanservice Extra Have a Gay Old Time The Faceless Retcon Storming the Castle Face–Heel Turn Bland-Name Product Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Hair-Trigger Temper Celebrity Paradox Mighty Whitey Big Eater The Chick "Awesome McCool" Name Good Is Not Nice No Name Given Rule of Cool Nice Hat Hypocritical Humor What the Hell, Hero? Fish out of Water Heroes Want Redheads Cain and Abel The Dreaded Fun with Acronyms Apocalypse How Improbable Aiming Skills Call-Back Sinister Minister Epic Movie Offscreen Teleportation Brutal Honesty Chewing the Scenery Ungrateful Bastard Continuity Nod Cassandra Truth Hidden Depths Curb-Stomp Battle Suspiciously Specific Denial Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Demonic Possession Anachronic Order Rule of Three Truth in Television Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Motor Mouth Protagonist Title Parental Substitute Riddle for the Ages Daylight Horror Christmas Movies Index Not So Stoic Batman Gambit Never Found the Body Canon Foreigner Deus ex Machina Foreshadowing Deal with the Devil Attempted Rape Biopic Dropped a Bridge on Him Older Than They Look Pre-Mortem One-Liner Romantic Comedy Broken Bird Based on a True Story Getting Crap Past the Radar Dramatic Gun Cock Serial Killer Rule of Funny Mugging the Monster The Remake Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Neck Snap Properly Paranoid Freudian Excuse Lighter and Softer Award-Bait Song Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Dies Wide Open My Beloved Smother Moment Killer Heterosexual Life-Partners Hope Spot Yandere Animated Credits Opening Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique More Dakka As Long as It Sounds Foreign Visual Pun Artistic License – Law Manly Tears Sexy Discretion Shot Badass Grandpa Chekhov's Gunman Male Gaze Hero Antagonist Advertised Extra Documentary Only One Name What You Are in the Dark Jerkass Has a Point She Cleans Up Nicely Death by Adaptation The Smart Guy Adapted Out Due to the Dead Guns Akimbo Downer Ending French Films Room Full of Crazy Dressing as the Enemy Hollywood Law Spiteful Spit Credits Gag Mercy Kill Leaning on the Fourth Wall You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Shirtless Scene Accidental Murder Does Not Like Shoes Offscreen Moment of Awesome Manipulative Bastard Camp Gay Totally Radical Jerkass Gory Discretion Shot Danny Peary Cult Movies List Adult Fear Diabolus ex Machina Horror Films Token Minority Not What It Looks Like Beauty Is Never Tarnished Determinator aka: The Determinator Take a Third Option This Is Gonna Suck Gratuitous English The Bad Guy Wins Vacation Films No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Take That! Logo Joke Black Best Friend Refuge in Audacity Missing Mom The Dog Bites Back Bunny-Ears Lawyer Damsel in Distress Evil Plan Establishing Character Moment Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Meaningful Background Event Random Events Plot Big Bad Duumvirate Exactly What It Says on the Tin Chekhov's Gun Poor Communication Kills Anti-Villain Bittersweet Ending Once More, with Clarity! "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Developing Doomed Characters Animal Title Index Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Grievous Bottley Harm Bare Your Midriff Knight Templar Casting Gag Translation Convention Thriller He Who Fights Monsters An Axe to Grind Curse Cut Short The Big Guy My Greatest Failure Jerk Jock Same Language Dub Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Animal Motifs Abusive Parents Super Strength Antagonist Title Foregone Conclusion One-Word Title Naïve Newcomer Canadian Movies Villain Opening Scene Guile Hero NO INDOOR VOICE Badass Bookworm Butt-Monkey Anyone Can Die Put on a Bus And I Must Scream The Cavalry Car Fu Cool Old Guy The Load Took a Level in Jerkass Those Two Guys The Dragon Broken Aesop Brick Joke All There in the Script Rich Bitch Not Quite Dead Double Entendre Ms. Fanservice Berserk Button Mooks Age Lift The Musical Catapult Nightmare In Medias Res The '60s Arch-Enemy Historical Hero Upgrade I Need a Freaking Drink Pragmatic Adaptation Line-of-Sight Name Amoral Attorney Cluster F-Bomb Superhero Humans Are Bastards Funny Background Event Red Right Hand Department of Redundancy Department As You Know Darker and Edgier Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Meet Cute Deliberately Monochrome Tap on the Head Villain Song Expy My God, What Have I Done? Playing Gertrude The Ghost Black and Gray Morality O.O.C. Is Serious Business Evil-Detecting Dog Military and Warfare Films Adults Are Useless The '80s Spell My Name with an "S" Abhorrent Admirer Bond One-Liner Mama Bear The End... Or Is It? Those Wacky Nazis Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Straight Gay Man on Fire Did Not Get the Girl Self-Deprecation Corpsing Coming-of-Age Story Married to the Job Silent Movie Fatal Flaw Punny Name Hong Kong Films Affectionate Parody Chekhov's Skill Sealed Evil in a Can Author Avatar Despair Event Horizon Fan Disservice Fantasy Films As the Good Book Says... Made of Iron You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Everyone Has Standards Off-into-the-Distance Ending It Can Think Small Name, Big Ego Mythology Gag Plucky Comic Relief Your Head A-Splode Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Horror Comedy Scenery Porn The Cameo Double-Meaning Title Grey and Gray Morality Zombie Stories Off with His Head! Genre Throwback Smug Snake Children Are Innocent Destination Defenestration Genre Shift Wham Line Stylistic Suck Sci-Fi Horror Disney Death Character Development Improbable Weapon User Badass Longcoat Took a Level in Badass Gold Digger The Alleged Car And Starring 20 Minutes into the Future Heroic Sacrifice Get Out! Manchild Unwitting Instigator of Doom Stepford Smiler Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Creator Cameo Calling the Old Man Out Deliberate Values Dissonance Ambiguous Disorder British Films Market-Based Title The X of Y Arc Words Artistic License – Geography Slasher Movie Outrun the Fireball Wrong Genre Savvy Punch-Clock Villain Television Movie Index Made of Explodium Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Major Injury Underreaction Catch-Phrase Artistic License – Physics Monumental Damage Facial Horror Sadistic Choice Ass Shove Blood Knight Fainting Disappeared Dad Crucified Hero Shot Evil Sounds Deep The Smurfette Principle Papa Wolf Twist Ending Chase Scene Rasputinian Death Mad Scientist In Name Only Not So Above It All Nothing Is Scarier She's Got Legs Drowning My Sorrows Adaptation Dye-Job Jerk with a Heart of Gold Frame-Up Precision F-Strike Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Love Triangle Sole Survivor Rousing Speech Smoking Is Cool Red Oni, Blue Oni Manic Pixie Dream Girl No OSHA Compliance Easily Forgiven Dumb Blonde Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Death Seeker Tagline Exact Words The Un-Reveal Hero of Another Story Captain Ersatz Important Haircut Psychological Thriller Extremely Short Timespan Dirty Cop Enemy Mine Face Death with Dignity No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Police Brutality It Will Never Catch On The Mole War Is Hell The Atoner Gilligan Cut Video Credits Bolivian Army Ending Kick the Dog Parental Neglect Stealth Hi/Bye Death by Irony Final Girl Film Series Left the Background Music On Shell-Shocked Veteran The Power of Love Here We Go Again! Revenge Dutch Angle Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Soundtrack Dissonance Only Known by Their Nickname Pretty in Mink Star-Crossed Lovers Trailers Always Spoil Evil Is Petty Even Evil Has Loved Ones Disney Villain Death Drives Like Crazy Black Dude Dies First Instant Death Bullet Annoying Younger Sibling Eiffel Tower Effect Scary Black Man Would Hurt a Child The '70s Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Kids Are Cruel Dirty Coward Flashback Defrosting Ice Queen Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Back from the Dead Film Noir Index Bilingual Bonus Amusing Injuries Foil Country Matters Index of Film Westerns Bloodier and Gorier Heel–Face Turn Romantic False Lead Slap-Slap-Kiss Green-Eyed Monster The Lost Lenore Jitter Cam Death by Sex Eldritch Abomination Male Frontal Nudity Distracted by the Sexy Intergenerational Friendship Killed Mid-Sentence Music Stories timeperiod Training Montage Time Skip Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Unusual Euphemism Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Never My Fault Mind Screw Naked People Are Funny Well-Intentioned Extremist Covers Always Lie Adaptational Heroism All for Nothing Be Careful What You Wish For Leave the Camera Running Sports Stories Asshole Victim Loophole Abuse Evil vs. Evil The Great Depression Eureka Moment Laughing Mad Fake Shemp Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Names to Run Away from Really Fast Last-Name Basis Badass Normal Dirty Old Man Irony Narrator Soft Glass An Arm and a Leg Spiritual Successor Brother–Sister Incest Black Comedy Rape The '50s Beta Couple Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Eye Scream Femme Fatale Henpecked Husband Obfuscating Stupidity Vomit Indiscretion Shot Break the Haughty Needs Wiki Magic Love Artistic License – Gun Safety Domestic Abuse Empathic Environment Australian Movies Taking You with Me Darkest Hour Loads and Loads of Characters BFG Large Ham Dramedy The Place Heel Realization No Ending I Did What I Had to Do Historical-Domain Character N-Word Privileges There Is No Kill Like Overkill Big Bad No Celebrities Were Harmed Scare Chord Dogged Nice Guy Love at First Sight Shower Scene Our Vampires Are Different Fiery Redhead Shipper on Deck Not So Different Unusually Uninteresting Sight Neck Lift Obviously Evil Bi the Way Fatal Family Photo Lock and Load Montage Serious Business The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Early-Bird Cameo Book-Ends Gorn Imagine Spot Fantastic Racism Karmic Death Evil Counterpart Depraved Bisexual Adaptation Name Change Kubrick Stare Shown Their Work Gainax Ending