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Guy Jerkass Red Oni, Blue Oni No Celebrities Were Harmed Jump Scare Diabolus ex Machina Put on a Bus Five-Man Band Aside Glance Totally Radical Wham Shot Properly Paranoid Police are Useless Big Bad Duumvirate French Films Ominous Latin Chanting Unreliable Narrator Plucky Comic Relief Eyepatch of Power All Men Are Perverts Get Out! Worthy Opponent Take That! Neck Snap Reality Ensues The Bad Guy Wins Ship Tease Corrupt Corporate Executive Needs Wiki Magic Love Dual Wielding Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Reality Has No Subtitles Canon Foreigner Friend to All Children Disproportionate Retribution All There in the Manual Affably Evil Brainless Beauty Moment Killer Bond One-Liner Show Within a Show Hell Is That Noise Evil Is Hammy Animal Title Index Better to Die than Be Killed For Want of a Nail Christmas Movies Index True Companions Not Using the "Z" Word Ascended Extra Shoot the Shaggy Dog Kubrick Stare Combat Pragmatist Overprotective Dad Tempting Fate Ax-Crazy Pragmatic Adaptation Almost Kiss Pretty Little Headshots Defiant to the End Never Trust a Trailer Dark Reprise Covers Always Lie Lock and Load Montage Only a Flesh Wound Motor Mouth Defrosting Ice Queen Auto Erotica Bloodier and Gorier Nothing Is Scarier Those Wacky Nazis In Name Only Disney Villain Death Woman in White Scary Black Man Bring My Brown Pants Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Pre-Asskicking One-Liner In the Back Agony of the Feet 20 Minutes into the Future Body Horror Bound and Gagged Not Quite Dead Earn Your Happy Ending The Voiceless Black Comedy Rape The Un-Reveal Improvised Weapon The Smurfette Principle The Alleged Car Beard of Evil Police Brutality Bland-Name Product Off-into-the-Distance Ending Eye Scream Central Theme Trailers Always Spoil Cold-Blooded Torture Video Credits Jerk Jock Line-of-Sight Name Would Hurt a Child Kill It with Fire Deliberate Values Dissonance Alpha Bitch Kick the Son of a Bitch Never Found the Body Kick the Dog And I Must Scream An Arm and a Leg Even Evil Has Loved Ones Took a Level in Badass Recycled IN SPACE! Sassy Black Woman Exact Words Paper-Thin Disguise Cowboy Cop Hoist by His Own Petard The Stinger Music Stories Historical Hero Upgrade In Medias Res Freeze-Frame Bonus Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Fanservice Extra Action Genre Chekhov's Skill Hate Sink Ambiguous Disorder Cool Shades Sinister Minister Up to Eleven Older Than They Look Camera Abuse The '60s Alas, Poor Villain Our Vampires Are Different The Atoner A Father to His Men Groin Attack Word of God Only Known by Their Nickname Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Chekhov's Gun Heterosexual Life-Partners Actor Allusion Author Appeal Self-Deprecation Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Reality Is Unrealistic All Just a Dream Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Wretched Hive Martial Arts Movie Artistic License – History You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Cassandra Truth Have a Gay Old Time Horror Films Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Foil No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Dirty Cop Mr. Fanservice Attempted Rape Crucified Hero Shot Jerk with a Heart of Gold Made of Iron Face–Heel Turn Hollywood Law The Vamp Drill Sergeant Nasty Heel–Face Turn Token Minority The '80s No OSHA Compliance My Greatest Failure Epic Movie Not Even Bothering with the Accent Death of a Child No Antagonist Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Does Not Like Shoes It Can Think Male Frontal Nudity Artistic License – Geography Manipulative Bastard Antagonist Title "The Reason You Suck" Speech Enemy Mine Fatal Flaw Heroic Sacrifice One-Man Army Darker and Edgier Star-Crossed Lovers Big Brother Instinct Market-Based Title Neck Lift '80s Hair Insistent Terminology Apocalypse How Psychological Thriller Big Applesauce Wham Line Meaningful Echo Establishing Character Moment Deconstruction Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Alcoholic Lampshade Hanging Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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One-Word Title Undying Loyalty Redshirt Army Sexy Discretion Shot Belligerent Sexual Tension After the End Disappeared Dad Domestic Abuse Fun with Acronyms Unwitting Instigator of Doom Bare Your Midriff Coming-of-Age Story Happily Married Would Hit a Girl Refuge in Audacity Cruel and Unusual Death Affectionate Parody Super Strength Idiot Ball Soundtrack Dissonance Bloodless Carnage Well-Intentioned Extremist Documentary Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Shell-Shocked Veteran Too Dumb to Live Actually Pretty Funny Corpsing Black Best Friend All Girls Want Bad Boys The Sociopath Serial Killer Brick Joke The '90s The Faceless The Dog Bites Back British Films Deliberately Monochrome Berserk Button Unspoken Plan Guarantee Killed Mid-Sentence Broken Bird Rated M for Manly Noodle Incident Woman Scorned Catapult Nightmare Rule of Funny Mundane Made Awesome Creepy Child Roaring Rampage of Revenge Cool Car Adapted Out Spiteful Spit Love at First Sight Darkest Hour Back from the Dead Pyrrhic Victory Jerkass Has a Point The Stoner There Is No Kill Like Overkill Comically Missing the Point Dumb Blonde Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Informed Ability Offscreen Moment of Awesome Death by Adaptation Implacable Man Fat Bastard Fire-Forged Friends Homage Hooker with a Heart of Gold Shout-Out Humans Are Bastards Cluster F-Bomb Rich Bitch He Who Fights Monsters Revenge Developing Doomed Characters Race Against the Clock Ass Shove The Dreaded Japanese Films The Smart Guy The End... Or Is It? Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Bolivian Army Ending Time Skip Fourth Date Marriage Toplessness from the Back The Reveal Missing Mom Your Cheating Heart Sole Survivor Black Dude Dies First Throwing Your Sword Always Works Artistic License – Gun Safety Artistic License – Military Anti-Villain Naked People Are Funny Mugging the Monster The Ghost Hypocritical Humor It Will Never Catch On La Résistance Evil Counterpart Psycho for Hire Off with His Head! Black and Gray Morality Male Gaze Romantic Comedy No-Sell Grey and Gray Morality Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Contrived Coincidence Riddle for the Ages Retired Badass Superhero This Is Gonna Suck Henpecked Husband Large Ham Bury Your Gays Plot Hole Casting Gag Arch-Enemy Not What It Looks Like Eiffel Tower Effect Stalker with a Crush O.O.C. Is Serious Business Cat Scare Dropped a Bridge on Him Age Lift The Film of the Book Science Fiction Films Gender Flip Famous Last Words Death Seeker Index of Film Westerns Naïve Newcomer Madness Mantra Obstructive Bureaucrat Curb-Stomp Battle Mystery and Detective Films Stuff Blowing Up Pragmatic Villainy How We Got Here Downer Ending Flashback Thriller Unusual Euphemism The Chick Karma Houdini Laser-Guided Karma Outrun the Fireball Bloody Hilarious Villain Song Red Shirt Costume Porn Humiliation Conga Hair-Trigger Temper An Aesop Intrepid Reporter Small Name, Big Ego Pre-Mortem One-Liner Handicapped Badass Villain Protagonist Bunny-Ears Lawyer "Shaggy Dog" Story Russian Films Country Matters Ripped from the Headlines Stylistic Suck I Need a Freaking Drink As Himself Soft Glass Animated Credits Opening Hypocrite Parental Substitute Advertised Extra Heroes Want Redheads Beauty Is Never Tarnished Genre Savvy Continuity Nod Femme Fatale MacGuffin Names to Run Away from Really Fast The Oner Unusually Uninteresting Sight Parental Incest From Nobody to Nightmare Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Major Injury Underreaction Love Triangle Re-Cut Destination Defenestration Hero of Another Story Not So Above It All Adaptational Attractiveness The Place Based on a True Story Card-Carrying Villain Ghost Fiction No-Holds-Barred Beatdown The Hero Dies Bittersweet Ending The Cameo Match Cut From Bad to Worse Nice Hat Red Right Hand All for Nothing Never My Fault Non-Indicative Name Evil vs. Evil Spared by the Adaptation Celebrity Paradox Mercy Kill Slashed Throat Early Installment Weirdness Let's Get Dangerous! 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Is a Crapshoot Vomit Discretion Shot Heel Realization Insane Troll Logic Maybe Ever After The Casanova Even Evil Has Standards Genre Shift Cloudcuckoolander Historical-Domain Character Fantastic Racism Crapsack World The Starscream All There in the Script Improbable Weapon User Scare Chord Shipper on Deck Due to the Dead Adaptational Heroism A God Am I Anyone Can Die Mad Scientist Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Interrupted Suicide Punch-Clock Villain Meaningful Name The Lancer Leitmotif Manic Pixie Dream Girl Rasputinian Death Kids Are Cruel Did Not Get the Girl Curse Cut Short My Beloved Smother Smug Snake Arranged Marriage Random Events Plot The Ditz Dirty Coward Call-Back Rule of Symbolism Authority Equals Asskicking Be Careful What You Wish For Chiaroscuro Evil-Detecting Dog He Knows Too Much Gratuitous English Red Herring Only in It for the Money Blackmail The Mole Ironic Echo Credits Gag Genre Throwback Politically Incorrect Villain Cool Guns Rousing Speech I'm a Humanitarian Drowning My Sorrows Cool Old Guy Your Head A-Splode N-Word Privileges Determinator aka: The Determinator Poor Communication Kills The '50s Extreme Doormat Fate Worse than Death Early-Bird Cameo Frame-Up Batman Gambit Mama Bear Adult Fear Historical In-Joke Abusive Parents Unresolved Sexual Tension Biopic Bar Brawl Gone Horribly Right Decoy Protagonist Narrator Adorkable The Brute Stock Footage Author Avatar Dying Moment of Awesome Gold Digger Failed a Spot Check Foregone Conclusion Sequel Hook Shown Their Work Four-Temperament Ensemble Taking You with Me Sequel Escalation The Remake Parental Neglect Everyone Has Standards Broken Aesop Hidden Depths An Axe to Grind Hollywood Darkness Skewed Priorities Didn't Think This Through Big Eater Taking the Bullet Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Sci-Fi Horror Canadian Movies Tranquil Fury The Stoic The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Bowdlerise Despair Event Horizon Shower Scene Gory Discretion Shot Spanner in the Works Dark and Troubled Past Immune to Bullets Film Noir Index Lighter and Softer Funny Background Event Meet Cute For the Evulz Death by Sex Beta Couple Retcon Epic Fail Suddenly SHOUTING! One Steve Limit Public Domain Feature Films Expy Funny Foreigner Playing Gertrude Blatant Lies Leave the Camera Running Easily Forgiven As the Good Book Says... Make It Look Like an Accident Evil Is Petty Not So Stoic Made of Explodium Dramatic Gun Cock Silent Movie Deus ex Machina Empathic Environment Last-Name Basis Honor Before Reason Stepford Smiler Film Series Badass in a Nice Suit Bald of Evil Truth in Television And Starring Butt-Monkey timeperiod Bait-and-Switch The Great Depression Our Zombies Are Different Daylight Horror Ambiguously Gay Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Framing Device Adaptation Distillation Once More, with Clarity! Men Are the Expendable Gender Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Vomit Indiscretion Shot Stealth Hi/Bye Overly Long Gag Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? You Have Failed Me Dutch Angle Brother–Sister Incest Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Sealed Evil in a Can No Name Given Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Abhorrent Admirer She Cleans Up Nicely Composite Character Arc Words Imagine Spot Artistic License – Biology Death Glare Dies Wide Open The Cavalry Big "NO!" Big-Bad Ensemble Awesome, but Impractical Anachronism Stew Eureka Moment Asshole Victim As You Know Same Language Dub Pet the Dog Real Life Writes the Plot Evil Laugh The Lost Lenore Man on Fire Grievous Bottley Harm NO INDOOR VOICE Deal with the Devil Deadpan Snarker Villain with Good Publicity Fingore Dissonant Serenity Ms. Fanservice Blood Knight Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Big Damn Heroes What the Hell, Hero? Race Lift I Have Your Wife Rape as Drama Anachronic Order Sanity Slippage Adaptational Villainy Vitriolic Best Buds Mighty Whitey Cool Old Lady Horror Comedy Crazy-Prepared Fantasy Films The Quiet One Gorn Light Is Not Good Karmic Death Fatal Family Photo Action Girl Drugs Are Bad Married to the Job Rule of Cool I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Tap on the Head Slasher Movie Serious Business Pretty in Mink Red Eyes, Take Warning Silence Is Golden German Films Does This Remind You of Anything? Bottomless Magazines Accidental Misnaming Hong Kong Films Morality Pet Loads and Loads of Characters Evil Brit Took a Level in Jerkass Title Drop Mind Screw Aluminum Christmas Trees Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Protagonist Title Good Is Not Nice Television Movie Index Mood Whiplash Blood from the Mouth Breaking the Fourth Wall Spiritual Successor Becoming the Mask Insult Backfire Slap-Slap-Kiss Cain and Abel Romantic False Lead Rewatch Bonus Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Fanservice Half the Man He Used to Be Dressing as the Enemy Boom, Headshot! Villain Ball Nice Guy Driven to Suicide Posthumous Character Anguished Declaration of Love Call-Forward War Is Hell Getting Crap Past the Radar Captain Obvious Parental Abandonment Disney Death Suspiciously Similar Substitute Leaning on the Fourth Wall Creative Closing Credits Accidental Murder Award-Bait Song A Date with Rosie Palms Fake Shemp Take a Third Option Bavarian Fire Drill Gainax Ending Chekhov's Gunman B-Movie Peek-a-Boo Corpse Dwindling Party Badass Boast Shirtless Scene "Awesome McCool" Name Every Car Is a Pinto Ungrateful Bastard Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Manchild Demoted to Extra Knight Templar Say My Name Training Montage Very Loosely Based on a True Story Dark Action Girl Australian Movies Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Chase Scene Really Gets Around Dirty Old Man It's All About Me Badass Bookworm Badass Grandpa Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Villainous Breakdown Adaptational Badass Annoying Younger Sibling Face Death with Dignity Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Reckless Gun Usage Oh, Crap! Department of Redundancy Department I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Distracted by the Sexy The '70s Pimped-Out Dress What Happened to the Mouse? You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Historical Villain Upgrade Mistaken for Gay As Long as It Sounds Foreign Together in Death Broken Pedestal Badass Longcoat Obviously Evil Left the Background Music On Armor-Piercing Question Setting Update Evil Sounds Deep Vampire Fiction Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Redemption Equals Death Laughing Mad "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Danny Peary Cult Movies List Babies Ever After Slasher Smile Fiery Redhead Gilligan Cut Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Black Comedy Foreshadowing The Chessmaster Big Fancy House Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Hero Antagonist Depraved Bisexual Meaningful Background Event Daddy's Girl Action Prologue The Power of Love Creator Cameo Bullying a Dragon Vacation Films Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Bad "Bad Acting" Cat Fight Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Zombie Stories Scenery Gorn Straight Gay The Ace Chewing the Scenery Punny Name Break the Haughty Suspiciously Specific Denial Catch-Phrase Character Development The Load Villain Opening Scene Artistic License – Law Fan Disservice Greater-Scope Villain Those Two Bad Guys Malevolent Masked Men Badass Normal Bond Villain Stupidity Freudian Excuse Rule of Three The Mafia Wounded Gazelle Gambit More Dakka The Musical Twist Ending Victoria's Secret Compartment Mr. Exposition Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Flipping the Bird Conspicuous CG Facial Horror Fainting Sadistic Choice The Big Guy Retirony Adults Are Useless Important Haircut Mexican Standoff