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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The Mafia Rule of Funny Posthumous Character Really Gets Around Made of Explodium Male Frontal Nudity The Alcoholic Apocalypse How Wham Line BFG Flipping the Bird Cold-Blooded Torture Domestic Abuse Re-Cut The Reveal As Long as It Sounds Foreign Creator Cameo The Cavalry Combat Pragmatist Bottomless Magazines And I Must Scream Historical Hero Upgrade The Brute Psychological Thriller Those Wacky Nazis Properly Paranoid All Girls Want Bad Boys The Bad Guy Wins Badass in a Nice Suit The Mole Heterosexual Life-Partners Adaptational Heroism 20 Minutes into the Future Madness Mantra Enemy Mine Vomit Indiscretion Shot Soundtrack Dissonance Interrupted Suicide It Can Think The Oner Annoying Younger Sibling Unspoken Plan Guarantee Jitter Cam Playing Gertrude The Place World of Ham Evil Laugh Hollywood Law Stealth Pun Pet the Dog Skewed Priorities Wounded Gazelle Gambit Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Anachronism Stew Heroic BSoD The Great Depression Police are Useless Poor Communication Kills Spanner in the Works Crazy-Prepared It Will Never Catch On Here We Go Again! 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