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