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9* [[spoiler:''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'']]: A couple sets out to rescue their 15 children from a fashion-obsessed woman. By the end of the film, they've adopted 84 more.
10* [[spoiler: ''Film/TwelveAngryMen'']]: A dozen guys sit in a room and argue for an hour and a half.
11** Alternatively: lack of consensus makes people stuck for hours and hours inside a room.
12* [[spoiler: ''Film/TwelveMonkeys'']]:
13** John [=McClane=] acts almost as crazy as Benjamin Button. Monkeys don't really enter into it.
14** Alternatively: Guy travels back in time. This influences nutty to create a group, that ends up liberating a bunch of zoo animals, an action which has nothing to do with RocksFallEveryoneDies.
15* [[spoiler: ''Film/TwelveYearsASlave'']]: Musician's return home takes longer than expected.
16* [[spoiler: ''Film/OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours'']]: A hiker learns the hard way [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment why you should always leave a note.]]
17* ''[[spoiler: Film/ThirteenAssassins]]'': Twelve samurai and a hobo buy a village, and two hundred other samurai and biggest asshole in Japan pay a visit. '''Everyone''' dies.
18** Alternatively, Film/ThreeHundred if Leonidas was Japanese, even more understaffed, and had a ''slightly'' more reasonable target.
19* [[spoiler:''Film/TheThirteenthWarrior'']]: An exiled Middle Eastern diplomat is dragged into ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'' and ends up [[BoxOfficeBomb not earning anything from it]].
20* [[spoiler: ''Film/FourteenOhEight'']]: Cynical writer can't get out of his hotel room.
21* [[spoiler: ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'']]: Grey blocks change the course of human evolution, a computer goes nuts, and an astronaut sees lots of colored lights.
22** [[spoiler: ''Film/TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact'']]: People go restart the computer to see what the hell happened. This causes brutal changes to the Solar System.
23*** Or: The rectangles destroy a planet.
24* [[spoiler:''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'']]: Estranged husband tries to bond with his kids, only to find out that he ''really'' picked a bad time to do so.
25** Alternatively: A family trip to Yellowstone is cancelled due to global warming.
26* [[spoiler:''Film/TwentyFourHourPartyPeople'']]: Socially inept news reader sets up record label where the top bands include a band who are accused of being Nazis and whose singer commits suicide, an anorexic man and a group of drug-addled lunatics, including their maracas-wielding dealer. Based on a true story.
27* [[spoiler:''25th Hour'']]: A man goes to jail.
28* ''[[spoiler:Film/TwentyEightDaysLater]]'': Bicycle courier finds himself on the run from extremely ticked-off urbanites. He meets up with a woman keen on hacking people to death with a machete, a slightly mad taxi driver, and his quiet daughter, who take him on a road trip through the countryside. The four encounter a small group of soldiers living in a country mansion who intend to restart the human race. One of them wears a pink apron.
29* ''[[spoiler:Film/ThreeHundred]]'': Barely dressed soldiers from an incredibly toxic culture fight with "metro-sexual version of the Devil". (Sort of) based (indirectly) on what might be a true story.
30** ''[[spoiler:Film/ThreeHundredRiseOfAnEmpire]]'': The "metrosexual Devil" brings his slutty adoptive sister to his fight with the barely dressed soldiers' neighbours.
31* ''[[spoiler:Film/ThirtyDaysOfNight]]'': Some out-of-towners spend a month in an Alaskan town.
32* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheFortyYearOldVirgin]]'': A man has his first encounter with sex late in his life.
33** Alternatively: A raunchy sex comedy in which the MoralGuardians found ValuesResonance.
34* ''[[spoiler:Film/FiftyFirstDates]]'': Remember Creator/AdamSandler? Creator/DrewBarrymore doesn't.
35** And how we envy her.
36* ''[[spoiler:Film/FiveHundredDaysOfSummer]]'': A hopeless romantic falls for a quirky young woman who doesn't believe in true love. Hilarity/heartache ensue.
37* [[spoiler: ''Film/The6thDay'']]: Man with peculiar accent teams up with man with peculiar accent.
38* ''[[spoiler:Film/EightMile]]'': White man successfully co-opts black culture to impress other whites. Or maybe that's [[spoiler:Film/TheJazzSinger]]
39* ''[[spoiler:Film/EightAndAHalf]]'': A philandering JerkAss of a filmmaker tries to make a film while dealing with a midlife crisis and hallucinating elements from his past. Is not the kind of thing you go around making musicals for.
40* ''[[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/{{Nine}} 9]]]]'': Dolls take on a rogue MookMaker.
41** Alternately, a "hero" is born...and proceeds to kill the first friendly person he meets. Before it's over, many others are dead, including the pope.
42** A naive but courageous doll saves a post-apocalyptic future by [[NiceJobBreakingItHero accidentally killing (almost) all his friends.]]
43* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheAbominableDrPhibes]]'': Burn victim who is supposed to be dead seeks vengeance on those responsible, sometimes via their children.
44** Or: Slowly-dying man comes up with overly elaborate deathtraps for enemies, but sometimes leaves a possible way out.
45** Or: Elusive PoeticSerialKiller takes inspiration from Literature/TheBible.
46** ''[[spoiler: Dr. Phibes Rises Again]]'': Semi-undead Creator/VincentPrice and AdventurerArchaeologist race to Egypt in order to achieve immortality. The archaeologist's crew keep dying in bizarre and overly-elaborate ways, and it ends with a song from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
47* ''[[spoiler: Film/AboutTime]]'': Twentysomething uses TimeTravel to help out his family and get laid.
48* ''[[spoiler: Film/AceHigh]]'': A man escapes from jail and continually bungles his own revenge scheme.
49* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Admission}}]]'': Straightlaced college admissions officer falls in love with Creator/PaulRudd and gains a son.
50* [[spoiler: ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse2007'']]: TheSixties happen to a group of young people who fall in love, take some drugs, have lots of sex, briefly hate each other, and then reunite as friends in the end. And they express these emotions by singing [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] songs.
51** Or: Guy who does not legally exist and tends to do the wrong thing with good intentions falls for girl whose brother gets drafted into the surrealist division of the US Army. Oh, and this is ''really'' a musical.
52* [[spoiler: ''Film/{{Adaptation}}'']]: Screenwriter tries to turn a book into a screenplay, finds it impossible, so writes a screenplay about that.
53* [[spoiler: ''Film/AdAstra'']]: A man, desperately wanting to see his father, inadvertently kills everyone he meets on his way there, eventually including said father. This is okay because the man goes home after that.
54* [[spoiler: ''Film/TheAdjustmentBureau'']]: A group of fedora aficionados prevent a politician and a dancer from being happy.
55* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen]]'': An old dude wants to die, but he's forced into finding his friends by a little girl.
56* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheAdventuresOfFordFairlane]]'': Chauvinist [[Series/HappyDays Fonz]]-wannabe foils convoluted music industry conspiracy while drinking flaming milkshakes and insulting [[JadedWashout Al Bundy]] about his early disco career. Also features Tone Loc occasionally throwing people from rooftops and [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] doing the worst British accent in all history.
57* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad]]'': Two completely different classic stories, about a crazy driver who must be calmed down, and a schoolteacher that has problems returning home from a party.
58* ''[[spoiler: Film/AfterTheDark]]'': A philosophy teacher and student play a game with each other. [[InnocentInnuendo No, not that kind of game.]]
59* [[spoiler: ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence'']]: Robot decides to BecomeARealBoy, with the help of a teddy bear and sarcastic fetish fuel built to resemble Jude Law.
60* ''[[spoiler: Film/AirForceOne]]'': The president and his crew have been kidnapped by terrorists. Is he a bad enough dude to save the day?
61* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Airheads}}]]'' A band desperately tries to have their demo tape played.
62* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Airplane}}]]'': Food poisoning leads ShellShockedVeteran to pilot a passenger jet.
63* [[spoiler: ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'']]: Orphaned StreetUrchin falls in love with RebelliousPrincess, seduces her with the help of near-omnipotent comedian and a piece of fabric, and defeats the bad guy by trapping him into a device used for lighting.
64*** Alternatively: Boy tries to hit on girl with magic. [[spoiler:It works.]]
65*** Alternatively: A huge corporation spends millions of dollars so they can show you how a poor person lives.
66** [[spoiler: ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'']]: BigBad comes back to try and take over the kingdom. He is defeated by his [[HeelFaceTurn fugitive]] parrot.
67*** Alternatively: The only one who can save the world is a belligerent parrot.
68** [[spoiler: ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves]]'': The urchin and the princess are about to get married, when the wedding is crashed by the boy's father and his workmates.
69*** Alternatively: A thief has DaddyIssues.
70* [[spoiler:''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'']]: A girl follows a rabbit into a world conceived by drugs.
71** [[spoiler:''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'']]: Girl with sleep disorder accidentally takes a wrong turn while fleeing from reality. She then teams up with a neurotic butler, a midget warrior, a crazy cook, and a fashion-conscious contortionist to help an imprisoned pacifist, whose sister has strange taste in interior design.
72** [[spoiler:''Film/AliceThroughTheLookingGlass'']]: The girl is roped into helping the contortionist break out of a nostalgia-based depression while fleeing from an extortionist negotiation.
73* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Alien}}]]'': A stomach cramp gets out of hand (or: inter-species rape).
74** Ship fails to deliver cargo, crew don’t get bonus.
75** Or: ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]] (by the writers own admission) featuring a wasp-like monster.
76** Or: Nobody listens to the smart woman, and then they all die except for the smart woman and her cat.
77** ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Aliens}}]]'': An entire colony has stomach cramps (or: inter-species gang rape). The only one who can help them was sleeping for years.
78*** An unplanned pregnancy leads to complications.
79*** Alternately: A gang that consists primarily of white males travels to a far-away land, where they display an alarming intolerance for the indigenous population.
80*** Or: Following a film that was a masterpiece of subtlety and suspense, the sequel throws that all out and turns into an action flick, recycling many scenes from the original, and shoehorns in a {{Mecha}} fight at the end. Clearly this was a fanfic masquerading as a movie.
81** ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Alien 3}}]]'': A dog's stomach cramp gets out of hand.
82** ''[[spoiler: Film/AlienResurrection]]'': Woman is brought back to life because of stomach cramps.
83** ''[[spoiler: Film/AVPAlienVsPredator]]'': A lot of people get stomach cramps in Antarctica. Three [[BetterThanItSounds/FilmP Big Game Hunters]] have to clean up after them.
84** ''[[spoiler: Film/AliensVsPredatorRequiem]]'': Big Game Hunter gets stomach cramp, forcing his friends to stop in a small town.
85** ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Prometheus}}]]'': Woman follows some ancient paintings. This causes [[RocksFallEveryoneDies her workmates to die]], and a big man to get stomach cramps.
86** ''[[spoiler:Film/AlienCovenant]]'': A ship decides to take a detour. [[RocksFallEveryoneDies Most of the crew dies]] as the work of TheSocialDarwinist [[AIIsACrapshoot robot]] gives them stomach cramps.
87*** They really need to stop forgetting to take the Pepto Bismol.
88* ''[[spoiler:Film/AllAboutEve]]'': A fangirl schemes to take down her idol. It's held the record for most Oscar nominations for 65 years.
89* [[spoiler:''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven]]'': A dog dies twice.
90* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/AllegroNonTroppo]]'': An artist draws sad cartoons to match with sad classical music. He is abused because the cartoons are not happy.
91* ''[[spoiler:Film/AlteredStates]]'': William Hurt combines sensory deprivation with Mexican mushrooms to experience his own genetic memory, and triggers a transformation into a primitive hominid and later a blob of primordial consciousness.
92** [[spoiler: Or, ''This Is Your Evolutionary History On Drugs''.]]
93* ''[[spoiler:Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks]]'': A down-on-his-luck songwriter's fortune changes when he takes in a trio of singing rodent siblings, before a {{Jerkass}} record producer entices them into record label slavery.
94* ''[[spoiler:Theatre/{{Amadeus}}]]'': An old man is still obsessed with his rival, decades after killing him.
95* ''[[spoiler:Amarcord]]'': A young man fondly recalls his life in a port town in Fascist Italy, which includes scurrilous rumors about his neighbors, his dad getting threatened by the secret police, and a sexual encounter with an obese tobacconist.
96* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Amelie}}]]'': A spaced-out but shy waitress plays matchmaker with her friends, whilst an old man who can never leave his apartment tries to set her up with a weird guy who works in a porn shop.
97** Or: A woman runs around an over-idyllic fantasy Paris in a way that makes social anxiety look merely cute and misunderstood.
98* ''[[spoiler:Film/AmericanBeauty]]'': Dirty old man fantasizes about teenager, smokes pot, dies.
99* ''[[spoiler:Film/AnAmericanCarol]]'': Before a rally he planned, a guy's understanding of his country gets altered by two historical figures and TheGrimReaper. He helps stop [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies zombies]] from trashing a courthouse and helps two [[DefectorFromDecadence Defectors From Decadence]] save a concert. [[{{Anvilicious}} Anvils are dropped]] along the way.
100* ''[[spoiler:Film/AmericanPie]]'': Four guys want sex. Then they realise they don't want sex. Then they all have sex.
101** ''[[spoiler:Film/AmericanPie 2]]'': The four guys (plus the class' JerkJock) decide to reunite during summer break. Then they realise how they want to carry their relationships along. Then all but one has sex.
102** ''[[spoiler:American Wedding]]'': One of the guys proposes to his [[AllWomenAreLustful nymphomaniac]] girlfriend. Two of his friends (plus the Jock replacing [[PutOnABus the absent one]]) help organize the party. Then the jock and the groom [[ToiletHumor disgust]] [[VulgarHumor the viewers]] while some sex with [[IBangedYourMom the elders]] is had.
103** ''[[spoiler:American Reunion]]'': The five guys reunite. They realise how their lives didn't go so well. Then they all except that one again have sex.
104* ''[[spoiler:Literature/AmericanPsycho]]'': '80s yuppie has ''serious'' mental issues.
105* ''[[spoiler:Film/AmericanUltra]]'': Squads of elite government assassins fail to kill an unambitious stoner.
106* ''[[spoiler:Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon]]'': Two tourists get attacked by a crazy dog. [[BloodyHilarious Hilarity/Horror]] ensues.
107* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheAmityvilleHorror1979]]'': A family moves into a HauntedHouse and instead of leaving immediately live there for twenty-eight days for some reason.
108** ''[[spoiler: Film/AmityvilleIIThePossession]]'': A guy has sex with his sister and shoots everybody because a house told him to.
109** ''[[spoiler: Film/Amityville3D]]'': Cynical writer moves into a haunted house to write books, must deal with a gateway to Hell. People somehow keep breaking into the house and die because of it. IN 3-D!
110** ''[[spoiler: Film/AmityvilleTheEvilEscapes]]'': An evil lamp kills people.
111** ''[[spoiler: Film/TheAmityvilleCurse]]'': A guy kills people in a haunted house because his father was a priest.
112** ''[[spoiler: Film/AmityvilleItsAboutTime]]'': An evil clock kills people.
113** ''[[spoiler: Film/AmityvilleANewGeneration]]'': An evil mirror kills people.
114** ''[[spoiler: Film/AmityvilleDollhouse]]'': An evil dollhouse kills people.
115** ''[[spoiler: Film/TheAmityvilleHorror2005]]'': Remake of the original. Suspiciously similar to ''Film/TheShining'' in several regards.
116* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}]]'': Orphan girl travels with two con-men to visit her grandmother she doesn't remember.
117** Alternatively, undead [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Judge Doom]] and half the cast of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' try to kill [[Film/WhenHarryMetSally Sally]], but she's being helped by [[Film/BetterOffDead Lane Meyer]] and ''Series/{{Frasier}}''.
118* ''[[spoiler:Film/AndGodCreatedWoman]]'': Barely legal girl has trouble deciding whether she prefers the douchebag that treats her like crap or his chivalric but naïve younger brother.
119* ''[[spoiler:[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus And Now For Something Completely Different]]]]'': TV sketch retreads on the big screen.
120* ''[[spoiler:Film/AngerManagement]]'': [[Film/Batman1989 The Joker]] helps a guy feel better by having him beat up a monk.
121* ''[[spoiler:Film/AnimalHouse]]'': Jonny Quest aims to win over his rival's blonde trophy, but is ultimately beaten to the punch by a slovenly, mostly silent Polish-American. A future theme park tour guide tricks Quest into walking into a trap set by hateful neighbors. He and his zoologically affiliated brethren later wreak vengeance on these neighbors and others like them, with the help of thousands of small glass orbs and a carnivorous-looking Batmobile.
122* ''[[spoiler:Film/AnnaAndTheApocalypse]]'': A Christmas musical about teenagers dealing with the zombie apocalypse.
123* ''[[spoiler:Film/Annihilation2018]]'': Young woman ventures into the forest to find out why her husband came home from work so tired.
124* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheAnnunciation]]'': A horde of prepubescent children perform one of the grimmest plays in all of Hungarian literature.
125* ''[[spoiler:Film/AnotherEarth]]'': A science fiction movie that ''completely ignores'' its own genre in favor of the story of a girl who mopes miserably after she kills a family in a drunk driving accident.
126* ''[[spoiler:Film/AntMan1]]'': A washed-up thief with height issues tries to change his ways by stealing things. He does this by talking to bugs.
127** ''[[spoiler:Film/AntManAndTheWasp]]'': The washed-up thief helps his girlfriend reunite with her mother, while evading his parole officer.
128** ''[[spoiler:Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania]]'': The families of both the thief and the girlfriend get a forced trip to meet a former friend of the mother, who never got over how she broke the engine of his vehicle.
129* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}]]'': A neurotic guy accidentally becomes a hero to the working class, discovers a utopia, and thwarts the plans of a StupidEvil racist, when all he wanted was to get into the pants of a princess.
130* ''[[spoiler: Film/ApocalypseNow]]'': A soldier enters the jungle to kill a superior. It's hard to know which of the two is crazier. Guest starring [[Film/TheMatrix Morpheus]] and [[Franchise/StarWars Han Solo]].
131* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Apollo 13}}]]'': Three guys go on a trip, their ride breaks down so they have to turn around and go home. BasedOnATrueStory.
132** A spacecraft doesn't land on the moon.
133* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Aquaman|2018}}]]'': Alcoholic visits his mom's homeland, and seeks a fork to stop his EcoTerrorist half-brother.
134* [[spoiler:Film/{{Arachnophobia}}]]: A small town in America has a serious spider infestation.
135* ''[[spoiler:Film/AreWeThereYet]]'': Man drives woman's kids to Canada hoping to get into her pants.
136* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Argo}}]]'': Some people pretend to be filmmakers to go on a trip to Switzerland. BasedOnATrueStory, but only very loosely.
137* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/TheAristocats]]'': A children's comedy film about an heiress and her children being drugged and abandoned. They later meet a vagabond who hangs out with a jazz band composed of ethnic stereotypes.
138* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheAristocrats]]'': One hundred comedians tell [[TheAristocrats the same deliberately unfunny joke]]. HilarityEnsues.
139* [[spoiler: ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'']]: A group of people gathers to go seek some cash with an [[ZombieApocalypse annoyance]] on the way.
140** [[spoiler: ''Film/ArmyOfThieves'']]: Blond German nerd opens safes.
141* [[spoiler: ''Around The Bend'']]: Father and son reconcile while on a road trip to bury the grandfather with the son's son.
142* [[spoiler:''Film/{{Arrival}}'']]: Woman copies the fancy circles seen in giant octopi's ink. This forever changes humanity.
143* [[spoiler:''Theatre/ArsenicAndOldLace'']]: Little old ladies do community service. One of their nephews disapproves and thinks that they should not be up and about. They have a family reunion.
144* [[spoiler:''Film/{{Arthur 1981}}'']]: Really eccentric billionaire has a choice: Marry a beautiful, eloquent, sophisticated woman, or lose everything. He chooses the latter.
145* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/ArthurChristmas]]'': A company forgot to do part of their job, so the company's owner's son, his grandpa and some girl go do said job.
146* [[spoiler:''Film/TheArtist'']]: Guy loses his job because he refuses to talk, while a girl gets fame out of a pencil smudge.
147* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheATeam]]'': An old guy, young guy, crazy guy and black guy find out why they were kicked out of the military.
148** Or - A [[Franchise/StarWars Jedi knight]], a [[Film/WetHotAmericanSummer summer camp counselor]], a [[Film/{{District 9}} South African bureaucrat]], and a wrestler blow up a good portion of Germany and Mexico to prove their devotion to each other and to their country.
149* ''[[spoiler:Film/AtFirstSight]]'': A woman meets a blind man and falls in love with him. Their relationship is put into test before ''and'' after the man recovers his eyesight.
150* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire]]'': A nerd and his mercenary friends go into the grease trap of a sink.
151* ''[[spoiler:Film/AtomicBlonde]]'': Blonde woman has some business to do in UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}} in 1989.
152* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Atonement}}]]'': Young woman sees something, misunderstands it, and spends rest of her life regretting it.
153* ''[[spoiler:Film/AttackTheBlock]]'': British teenagers VS black alien gorilla.
154** A multiethnic group of low-income teenagers battles an invasive species.
155* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Audition}}]]'': A Japanese widower looks for love by finding an actress during a movie audition. The woman he chooses is a killer who uses piano wire to cut limbs off, and has a limbless, still living man tied up in a bag at home.
156** Or - Widowed, bogus casting director would like to meet hot babe for tediously prolonged courtship. Turn ons: acupuncture, neurotoxins, rubber-wear and body modification.
157* ''[[spoiler:Film/AustinPowers]]'': A sex addict travels through time to keep his wimpy, awkward brother from destroying the world.
158* [[spoiler:''Film/{{Avatar}}'']]: Crippled SpaceMarine goes to another planet, becomes furry both [[BizarreAlienBiology literally]] and [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom figuratively]]. The planet and most of the life on it are one gigantic brain that might also be God.
159** The main characters want to destroy some aliens' Internet. The furries are enraged and there is a massive InternetCounterattack, complete with a literal FlameWar.
160** Blue greenies become red-faced.
161** ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]
162** [[spoiler:''Film/AvatarTheWayOfWater'']]: The marine raises a family, moves to a scenic archipelago, and eventually decides to fight some very destructive whalers.
163* [[spoiler:''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'']]: Overtly narcissistic guy, overtly pompous guy, overtly angry guy, overtly patriotic guy, overtly chilly guy and overtly troubled chick are forced to join together against the pompous guy's brother.
164** Alternatively, a group plays real-life ''Videogame/{{Galaga}}'' in New York.
165** [[spoiler:''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'']]: Those people reunite to recover something the brother left behind, and are forced to stay together a while longer once the narcissistic guy's computer gets a nasty virus.
166*** Alternatively, the group stops a robot from [[BecomeARealBoy becoming a real boy]] by destroying all his [[MechaMooks toys]].
167** [[spoiler:''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'']]: The brother's former employer wants to collect six gemstones to put them into his favorite piece of jewelry. Together with bunch of a-holes, the above mentioned group tries to prevent that.
168*** Alternatively, a couple dozen people in funny outfits fail to take a glove and some rocks from a depressed California Raisin.
169*** Or: A group of superheroes and more tries to stop a buff titan to end half the universe. Sadly, [[spoiler: FailureIsTheOnlyOption to stop him.]]
170*** Alternatively: Characters from ''eighteen'' different movies come together to prevent a guy from snapping his fingers.
171*** Alternatively: Single father tries to end world hunger with rock collection.
172** Alternatively: Dumb and peripheral superhero of a team has a temper tantrum that screws over most of the popular and intelligent members of the group.
173** [[spoiler:''Film/AvengersEndgame'']]: Once that guy gets rid of his gemstones, everyone else goes through extreme measures to get them back.

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