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Dual Wielding Driven to Suicide Visual Pun What the Hell, Hero? Only in It for the Money Chewing the Scenery British Films Anti-Villain Chekhov's Gunman Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Mugging the Monster Action Prologue Unwitting Instigator of Doom Exact Words Determinator What You Are in the Dark N-Word Privileges Shell-Shocked Veteran Author Avatar "Awesome McCool" Name Properly Paranoid My Greatest Failure Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The '80s Fake Shemp Sci-Fi Horror All Just a Dream No Antagonist All Men Are Perverts Heel–Face Turn Loophole Abuse The Hero Foregone Conclusion Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Anti-Hero Blood Knight Vacation Films Off with His Head! In the Back Death by Irony Even Evil Has Standards Good Is Not Nice Bloody Hilarious Logo Joke Sexy Discretion Shot Male Frontal Nudity Adult Fear Tagline Betty and Veronica Cat Fight Pragmatic Villainy Peek-a-Boo Corpse Anachronic Order Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Here We Go Again! Undying Loyalty Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! The Voiceless Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Affectionate Parody Soundtrack Dissonance Rule of Funny Slashed Throat Worthy Opponent '80s Hair Sadistic Choice Straight Gay Fantastic Racism The Alleged Car The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Cassandra Truth Real Life Men Are the Expendable Gender Face–Heel Turn Dramatic Irony Cain and Abel Documentary Affably Evil Eagleland Sequel Escalation War Is Hell Evil vs. Evil Only Known by Their Nickname Defrosting Ice Queen Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Apocalypse How A Date with Rosie Palms Big Applesauce Award-Bait Song Gone Horribly Right Spanner in the Works Camp Gay Cowboy Cop Imagine Spot Obfuscating Stupidity Adapted Out Funny Foreigner Scenery Gorn Dwindling Party Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Batman Gambit Not So Above It All Extremely Short Timespan As the Good Book Says... 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Groin Attack Daddy's Girl Fun with Acronyms No Ending Wicked Cultured Comically Missing the Point Disguised in Drag Arch-Enemy Stuff Blowing Up Guile Hero Big Fancy House Demoted to Extra Rousing Speech "Shaggy Dog" Story Hypocrite Did Not Get the Girl Black and Gray Morality Badass Grandpa Match Cut Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Adaptational Badass Adorkable Beauty Is Never Tarnished Call-Forward Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Is a Crapshoot Catapult Nightmare Light Is Not Good Car Fu Empathic Environment Corrupt Corporate Executive Shower Scene Artistic License – Gun Safety Friend to All Children Fourth Date Marriage Slap-Slap-Kiss Shout-Out Male Gaze NO INDOOR VOICE Random Events Plot Self-Deprecation Mighty Whitey Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Put on a Bus Ungrateful Bastard Does This Remind You of Anything? Dark Reprise Stepford Smiler The Bully Punch-Clock Villain Gory Discretion Shot The Great Depression Mistaken for Gay Deal with the Devil The '90s Badass Normal Bloodier and Gorier Pre-Mortem One-Liner Dark Is Not Evil Ironic Echo Kids Are Cruel Have a Gay Old Time Auto Erotica O.O.C. Is Serious Business Big Eater Wounded Gazelle Gambit Papa Wolf Shown Their Work The Cavalry Fatal Flaw Insane Troll Logic Beware the Nice Ones Toplessness from the Back Would Hurt a Child Heroes Want Redheads Tap on the Head Bloodless Carnage Deus ex Machina Villain with Good Publicity This Is Gonna Suck Expy Those Two Guys Zombie Stories Kubrick Stare Department of Redundancy Department Frame-Up Monumental Damage Training Montage The Lost Lenore The Un-Reveal Boom, Headshot! Fanservice Extra Biopic Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Disproportionate Retribution The Starscream Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Real Life Writes the Plot Dirty Old Man Australian Movies Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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They Really Do Love Each Other Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Race Against the Clock The Smart Guy It's Personal Obstructive Bureaucrat Large Ham Morality Pet Recycled IN SPACE! Fantasy Films No-Sell Silence Is Golden Epic Movie Bond One-Liner Very Loosely Based on a True Story Totally Radical Slasher Smile Dies Wide Open Once More, with Clarity! Fatal Family Photo Reality Ensues Overprotective Dad Dropped a Bridge on Him Rule of Cool Advertised Extra Big "NO!" Funny Background Event Film Noir Index Hate Sink For Want of a Nail Unresolved Sexual Tension Asshole Victim Extreme Doormat Exactly What It Says on the Tin Chekhov's Skill And Starring It Can Think Evil Is Petty Ripped from the Headlines Knife Nut Berserk Button Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Loads and Loads of Characters Take That! Break the Haughty Let's Get Dangerous! Dark Action Girl Call-Back Homage Moment Killer Not Even Bothering with the Accent Lampshade Hanging Freeze-Frame Bonus Credits Gag Card-Carrying Villain True Companions Reasonable Authority Figure Be Careful What You Wish For Dirty Coward Mythology Gag Dumb Blonde Half the Man He Used to Be Kill 'em All Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Kick the Son of a Bitch Together in Death Improbable Weapon User Fate Worse than Death Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun One-Man Army Mind Screw Woman Scorned Race Lift A Minor Kidroduction And the Adventure Continues Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Continuity Nod The Faceless Plucky Comic Relief Instant Death Bullet Even Evil Has Loved Ones Dark and Troubled Past Death Glare Crapsack World Soft Glass Bad "Bad Acting" Antagonist Title Pyrrhic Victory The Alcoholic Attempted Rape Distracted by the Sexy Alliterative Name Scary Black Man Broken Pedestal Twist Ending It's All About Me All There in the Manual Poor Communication Kills No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Token Minority Too Dumb to Live Meaningful Background Event Defiant to the End Shirtless Scene Irony Cat Scare Rule of Three Neck Snap Those Two Bad Guys The Sociopath Does Not Like Shoes Happily Married Brick Joke