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There Is No Kill Like Overkill Alas, Poor Villain Insane Troll Logic '80s Hair Becoming the Mask Reasonable Authority Figure Flashback Eyepatch of Power Adults Are Useless Love Triangle From Nobody to Nightmare Running Gag Word of God Broken Bird Canon Foreigner Death Glare Morality Pet Children Are Innocent The End... Or Is It? Dogged Nice Guy Mooks Never My Fault Fanservice Together in Death Badass Normal Noodle Incident Bait-and-Switch Action Girl Science Fiction Films The Starscream Hair-Trigger Temper Plot Hole Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Enemy Mine Shut Up, Hannibal! The Brute Boom, Headshot! 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Not Quite Dead One Steve Limit Redshirt Army Moment Killer Hero of Another Story One-Word Title Madness Mantra Say My Name Even Evil Has Loved Ones Stylistic Suck Disproportionate Retribution Naked People Are Funny Get Out! Protagonist Title Fun with Acronyms Nice Hat Not So Above It All Left the Background Music On Historical Villain Upgrade Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Henpecked Husband Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Happily Married Celebrity Paradox Taking the Bullet Costume Porn Exactly What It Says on the Tin Bald of Evil Adaptational Heroism Downer Ending Anyone Can Die Evil Is Hammy Stalker with a Crush Hoist by His Own Petard Unresolved Sexual Tension Handicapped Badass Aww, Look! 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