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* SlapSlapKiss: A very literal invocation thereof.

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* SlapSlapKiss: A very literal invocation thereof. The love interest slaps the hero in a bar, SmashCut to the slap shown again, but they're now in a bedroom and wearing fewer clothes. Again, with fewer clothes, but this time he grabs her arm, and they kiss.
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* SupernaturalAid: After nearly dying of thirst in the desert, our heroes is rescued by the woman riding a {{unicorn}}, who brings him to a Chinese kung fu master who brings him BackFromTheDead and teaches him better kung fu.

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* SupernaturalAid: After nearly dying of thirst in the desert, our heroes hero is rescued by the woman riding a {{unicorn}}, who brings him to a Chinese kung fu master who apparently brings him BackFromTheDead and teaches him better kung fu.



* TrainingMontage: The hero receives one in the desert from a series of experts, although it's possible he imagines it during his HeroicBSOD.

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* TrainingMontage: The hero receives one in the desert from a series of experts, although it's possible he imagines it during his HeroicBSOD.could be a hallucination.
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* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The villain wears [[EvilWearsBlack black]] while in their final confrontation the hero and heroine wear white (except for a black DominoMask by the hero).
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* {{Unicorn}}: One is seen in the desert even though the video makes it clear the hero isn't a virgin. Though he may have been hallucinating it, since it appears to be ridden by his LoveInterest who's a prisoner of the BigBad at the time.

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* {{Unicorn}}: One is seen in the desert even though the video makes it clear both the hero isn't a virgin. and the rider [[UnicornsPreferVirgins aren't virgins]]. Though he the hero may have been hallucinating it, since it appears to be ridden by his LoveInterest who's a prisoner of the BigBad at the time.
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** ''Film/TheMatrix'': The hero dodges laser blasts with moves akin to Neo.

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** ''Film/TheMatrix'': The hero dodges laser blasts with moves akin to Neo.a Neo-style backflip.



* SupernaturalAid: After nearly dying of thirst in the desert, our heroes is rescued by the woman riding a unicorn, who brings him to a Chinese kung fu master who brings him BackFromTheDead and teaches him better kung fu.

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* SupernaturalAid: After nearly dying of thirst in the desert, our heroes is rescued by the woman riding a unicorn, {{unicorn}}, who brings him to a Chinese kung fu master who brings him BackFromTheDead and teaches him better kung fu.



* {{Unicorn}}: One is seen in the desert.

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* {{Unicorn}}: One is seen in the desert.desert even though the video makes it clear the hero isn't a virgin. Though he may have been hallucinating it, since it appears to be ridden by his LoveInterest who's a prisoner of the BigBad at the time.
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* PaintingTheMedium: A camera crew can be seen reflected in the mirror.

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* PaintingTheMedium: A camera crew [[VisibleBoomMic can be seen reflected in the mirror.mirror]].

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* HowWeGotHere: The video opens with our hero in the stocks, hallucinating, then he wakes up the day before he rides into Cydonia.



* StockPunishment: The hero is placed in the stocks as children ComeToGawk and [[KidsAreCruel throw feces at him]].
* StylisticSuck: The film is shot as if it were a bizarre, cheap '70s action movie.
-->'''Joseph Kahn (Director):''' (''on lead actor Russ Bain'') He didn't know any kung fu, but that was exactly the type of kung fu I wanted.



* StockPunishment: The hero is placed in the stocks as children ComeToGawk and throw feces at him.
* StylisticSuck: The film is shot as if it were a bizarre, cheap '70s action movie.
-->'''Joseph Kahn (Director):''' (''on lead actor Russ Bain'') He didn't know any kung fu, but that was exactly the type of kung fu I wanted.
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* SupernaturalAid: After nearly dying of thirst in the desert, our heroes is rescued by the woman riding a unicorn, who brings him to a Chinese kung fu master who brings him BackFromTheDead and teaches him better kung fu.
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"[[http://vimeo.com/26689532 Knights of Cydonia]]" is a music video from the band Music/{{Muse}}. The video is a six-minute CattlePunk film, complete with beginning and ending credits.

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"[[http://vimeo.com/26689532 "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_sBOsh-vyI Knights of Cydonia]]" is a music video from the band Music/{{Muse}}. The video is a six-minute CattlePunk film, complete with beginning and ending credits.
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* HeroicBSOD: But he ends up seeing [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs his girlfriend in a metal bikini on a white unicorn]], so we're good.

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* HeroicBSOD: But he ends up seeing [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs [[MindScrew his girlfriend in a metal bikini on a white unicorn]], so we're good.
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* TheGodsMustBeLazy: "I'll show you a god who falls asleep on the job."
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* ASinisterClue: In the final showdown, the bad guy draws and shoots left-handed.

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