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Guy Villain Opening Scene Fat Bastard Gilligan Cut Superhero BFG Sassy Black Woman Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Bring My Brown Pants Improbable Weapon User Gratuitous English The Un-Reveal Big Bad What You Are in the Dark Parental Neglect Foil A Father to His Men Cluster F-Bomb Mooks Make It Look Like an Accident '80s Hair Dark Action Girl Totally Radical Madness Mantra Smug Snake Pretty in Mink Kubrick Stare Facial Horror Beauty Is Never Tarnished Badass Boast Even Evil Has Standards The Stoic Recycled IN SPACE! Gold Digger Death of a Child Male Frontal Nudity Genre Savvy Chewing the Scenery Bar Brawl The Stoner Shipper on Deck In the Back Token Minority Ripped from the Headlines Agony of the Feet "Shaggy Dog" Story Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Camp Gay Intergenerational Friendship Dirty Cop Scary Black Man Gainax Ending Parental Abandonment Heroic BSoD Continuity Nod Slasher Smile Title Drop Big Fancy House Fingore Adaptation Distillation The Load Artistic License – Geography Those Two Guys Arc Words Logo Joke Alpha Bitch Deus ex Machina Corrupt Corporate Executive Only Known by Their Nickname Historical In-Joke Too Dumb to Live Creative Closing Credits Hong Kong Films After the End Black Comedy I Did What I Had to Do Bound and Gagged Gorn Lampshade Hanging Cool Old Guy NO INDOOR VOICE Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Defiant to the End Creepy Child Pimped-Out Dress Dogged Nice Guy Dark Is Not Evil Moment Killer She's Got Legs Villain with Good Publicity Spiritual Successor Aluminum Christmas Trees Fate Worse than Death The Ace Cloudcuckoolander The '80s Four-Temperament Ensemble Unresolved Sexual Tension Rich Bitch Did Not Get the Girl Half the Man He Used to Be Older Than They Look Romantic Comedy Eagleland Improbable Aiming Skills Redemption Equals Death Does This Remind You of Anything? 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No Antagonist Rule of Three Love at First Sight Leaning on the Fourth Wall Japanese Films Gender Flip Break the Haughty The Brute Fire-Forged Friends Super Strength The X of Y Stylistic Suck Get Out! A Date with Rosie Palms Film Series Faux Affably Evil Reality Has No Subtitles Australian Movies Informed Ability Villainous Breakdown Bare Your Midriff Crapsack World Animal Motifs Rousing Speech Beard of Evil Author Avatar Apocalypse How Up to Eleven Mad Scientist Funny Foreigner Stealth Hi/Bye Closed Circle Bolivian Army Ending Music Stories N-Word Privileges Obstructive Bureaucrat Developing Doomed Characters Bloodier and Gorier Not Quite Dead Amusing Injuries Evil Sounds Deep Covers Always Lie Depraved Bisexual Blood from the Mouth Double-Meaning Title The Reveal Works Set in World War II Grievous Bottley Harm Take That! Psychopathic Manchild An Arm and a Leg Wrong Genre Savvy Disney Death Karma Houdini Pay Evil unto Evil Does Not Like Shoes What Happened to the Mouse? Heterosexual Life-Partners Protagonist Title Disproportionate Retribution Dramedy Award-Bait Song Chiaroscuro Beware the Nice Ones Truth in Television In Name Only Playing Gertrude Retcon Scenery Porn Our Zombies Are Different Vampire Fiction The Faceless The Dog Bites Back Brother–Sister Incest Authority Equals Asskicking Based on a True Story Reality Is Unrealistic Cool Old Lady Driven to Suicide Danny Peary Cult Movies List For Want of a Nail Tagline Spell My Name with an "S" Left the Background Music On Light Is Not Good Ironic Echo Stock Footage Deliberately Monochrome Properly Paranoid The '50s Irony Mundane Made Awesome My Greatest Failure Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? The Hero Dies Neck Snap Bury Your Gays Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Laser-Guided Karma Fiery Redhead Race Lift Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Reasonable Authority Figure Advertised Extra Famous Last Words Evil Plan Unspoken Plan Guarantee The Quiet One Straight Gay Only One Name Comically Missing the Point Stealth Pun You Have Failed Me World of Ham Mind Screw Let's Get Dangerous! Undying Loyalty Lock and Load Montage Vitriolic Best Buds Camera Abuse Fanservice Mercy Kill Noodle Incident I Have Your Wife Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Mr. Fanservice Brick Joke Suspiciously Similar Substitute Really Gets Around Arranged Marriage Ghost Fiction Bavarian Fire Drill Laughing Mad Deconstruction Malevolent Masked Men Bowdlerise Evil Laugh Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Meet Cute Ambiguously Gay British Films Dramatic Gun Cock Hero Antagonist Chase Scene And the Adventure Continues Mexican Standoff Green-Eyed Monster Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Fake Shemp Knife Nut Peek-a-Boo Corpse Spanner in the Works Outrun the Fireball Shut Up, Hannibal! Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Is a Crapshoot Adaptation Expansion Punch-Clock Villain Ascended Extra Despair Event Horizon Narrator Death Glare Awesome, but Impractical Bittersweet Ending Accidental Murder The Lancer The Dreaded Chekhov's Gunman Artistic License – History Sequel Escalation Rule of Funny Cool Shades Overly Long Gag Men Are the Expendable Gender Skewed Priorities Costume Porn Sole Survivor The '70s Suddenly SHOUTING! 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