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9	* ''[[spoiler:Film/Daredevil2003]]'': A blind man fights a bald guy [[ImprobableWeaponUser armed with peanuts and paperclips]]. He is also a lawyer by day.
10	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DarkCity]]'': An amnesiac fights aliens at night with the help of an asthmatic psychologist.
11	** Alternatively, in a city of narcoleptics, one man suffers from insomnia. A council of albinos move against him.
12	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheDarkCrystal]]'': Nasty aristocrats use a rock to do their makeup.
13	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DarkStar]]'': Incompetent hippies on a deep space demolition tour dispel their boredom by chasing and deflating a sentient beach ball. Over-confidently, they then enter a debate with a sentient thermo-stellar bomb.
14	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DarkWater]]'': Woman gets irritated when no one will fix her leaky ceiling.
15	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Darkman}}]]'': Doctor gets revenge on the mob using latex masks.
16	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DarknessFalls]]'': The Tooth Fairy is actually the ghost of a woman who was burned to death years ago in the town, and she murders everyone who sees her. ''But'' ... she [[DarknessEqualsDeath cannot stand to be in the light]] - and so the protagonist (who saw her as a kid and survived) arms himself with ''a gym bag full of flashlights''.
17	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DaveMadeAMaze]]'': A wannabe artist gets lost in his work. No, literally.
18	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheDaVinciCode]]'': Film/ForrestGump and Film/{{Amelie}} search for the Holy Grail. They discover that Amelie is a descendant of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} and say, "Fuck it, that'll do for an ending".
19	** ''[[spoiler:Film/AngelsAndDemons]]'': Gump is summoned to stop criminals who kidnapped four old fellas and stole [[SlapOnTheWristNuke destructive powder]]. [[Franchise/StarWars Obi-Wan Kenobi]] falls for the Dark Side.
20	** ''[[spoiler:Literature/{{Inferno\|2013}}]]'': Gump is summoned to make sense of a guy who liked ''The Divine Comedy'' too much.
21	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DawnOfTheDead1978]]'': A couple cops and TV station workers hide from zombies in the attic of a mall.
22	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951]]'': A visitor from a far away place stops appliances from working.
23	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DaysOfBeingWild]]'': A narcissistic young man who lives with his mom is an awful boyfriend.
24	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DazedAndConfused]]'': A bunch of '70s teens hang out and get high together.
25	* [[spoiler:''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse'']]: The world's oldest SuperTeam [[FollowTheLeader tries to play catch-up to]] [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse the team they inspired]].
26	** [[spoiler:''Film/ManOfSteel'']]: A man [[BrokenMasquerade becomes the news]], then [[ClarkKenting writes about the news]].
27	** [[spoiler:''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'']]: A CorruptCorporateExecutive sets up an elaborate scheme so he can watch two guys [[MemeticMutation punch for a bit]].
28	** [[spoiler:''Film/SuicideSquad2016'']]: A gang of criminals break up a family reunion.
29	** [[spoiler:''Film/WonderWoman2017'']]: An [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld old]] woman receives a photograph and reminisces about her younger days. From the director of [[Recap/ArrestedDevelopmentS2E2TheOneWhereTheyBuildAHouse an episode of]] ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' and the composer of ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie''.
30	** [[spoiler:''Film/JusticeLeague2017'']]: A group of dysfunctional people reluctantly team up to fight a [[AlienInvasion bug infestation]] led by a guy obsessed with [[MacGuffin boxes]].
31	*** [[spoiler:''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'']]: The same thing, only now it lasts over four hours and has less {{slapstick}} and more slow motion as well as a pissed EvilOverlord.
32	** [[spoiler:''Film/Aquaman2018'']]: Drunk diver prevents his stepbrother from breaking into his house.
33	** [[spoiler:''Film/Shazam2019'']]: Boy roped onto a new job fights a former candidate who didn't take his rejection well.
34	** [[spoiler:''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'']]: Women get together to protect a girl who took the wrong meal.
35	** [[spoiler:''Film/WonderWoman1984'']]: Man discovers a way to improve other people's lives, especially his own. The old woman thinks he needs to be stopped.
36	** [[spoiler:''Film/TheSuicideSquad'']]: A gang of criminals releases someone from decades-long captivity, only to decide to kill him afterwards.
37	** [[spoiler:''Film/BlackAdam2022]]'': Man wakes up from a long slumber and becomes overtly protective of his homeland.
38	** [[spoiler:''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'']]: Boy who brought his adoptive family to his new job fight some sisters who want to shut down their company and build a garden.
39	** [[spoiler:''Film/BlueBeetle2023'']]: A guy in debt gets an insect stuck to his back that will kill him if it's removed. All his clothes get destroyed and he constantly gets put in danger.
40	* [[spoiler:''Film/DeadMenDontWearPlaid'']]: '40s PI gets help from StockFootage in order to stop a Nazi from destroying America with cheese.
41	* [[spoiler:''Film/Deadpool2016'']]: A disfigured cancer patient can't decide if he wants to be a spree killer or a stand-up comic.
42	** [[spoiler:''Film/Deadpool2'']]: The cancer patient now became a DeathSeeker who can't die after his girlfriend does and has to learn the meaning of family from a Russian made of metal, a girl with luck superpowers, a fat kid from New Zealand, an indian cab driver, two lesbians and Film/TheTerminator if he were a racist with a love for classic musicals and a hatred for Dubstep.
43	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DeathNote]]'': Law student turns vigilante calligrapher with the help of a super-being who sustains himself on a diet of nothing but apples - avoiding detection by both his own father and a child genius who has a ludicrous appetite for carbohydrates.
44	** [[spoiler:''Film/DeathNoteTheLastName'']]: As before, but with the addition of two cute babes from a TV station and another cartoon super-being. Nearly everyone dies.
45	** ''[[spoiler:Film/LChangeTheWorld]]'': A child genius who has a ludicrous appetite for carbohydrates with only 23 days left to live battles Eco-terrorists with a deadly virus.
46	*** Alternatively: A man commits suicide by notebook, adopts a kid and fights terrorists. InThatOrder.
47	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheDeathOfStalin]]'': The title character dies in the first half. This is a good thing. His death triggers a SuccessionCrisis. This is where most of the comedy comes from.
48	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{DEBS}}]]'': [[DatingCatwoman Villain falls in love with secret agent]].
49	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheDeerHunter]]'': Three friends travel to a wedding, the mountains, Southeast Asia, and then back home. It doesn't end well for any of them.
50	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Deliverance}}]]'': Tourists' boat trip turns sour.
51	** Alternate: Tourists' boat trip turns into a pain in the ass.
52	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DemolitionMan]]'': Maniac wrecks havoc on a state where PoliceAreUseless. [[DestructiveSaviour Another maniac breaks up some more stuff to stop him]].
53	** Alternatively: In a future where crime is eradicated, a black man murders and steals.
54	* ''[[spoiler:Literature/DemonSeed]]'': Woman gets raped by sentient house, voiced by ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE''
55	* [[spoiler:''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'']]: A diabolical genius, who employs a senile mad scientist and an army of Twinkies, adopts three little girls as part of a heist.
56	** [[spoiler:''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2'']]: Diabolical genius falls in love while his Twinkies are stolen by a Latino stereotype who wants to cover them in grape jam.
57	** [[spoiler:''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}'']]: Various people try to deal with the Twinkies.
58	** [[spoiler:''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe3'']]: Diabolical genius deals with a maniacal FormerChildStar while reuniting with his long-lost twin brother.
59	** [[spoiler:''WesternAnimation/MinionsTheRiseOfGru'']]: Twinkies try to get respect from the teen version of the diabolical genius, who in turn tries to earn some respect by dealing with people who take their horoscope very seriously.
60	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheDevilsAdvocate]]'': Workaholic discovers his new boss is a walking argument that [[AmoralAttorney lawyers are evil]].
61	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Dick}}]]'': [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon A famous Dick]] gets Deep Throated by two teenage girls.
62	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DieHard]]'': European thieves are defeated by man without shoes.
63	** Alternatively: Man has a really lousy time at a corporate Christmas party, but manages to reconcile with his estranged wife.
64	** Alternatively: American saves Japanese company from hostile takeover by Europeans.
65	** ''[[spoiler:Film/DieHard2: Die Harder]]'': Man experiences exact same Christmas he experienced the previous year, only in an airport this time.
66	** ''[[spoiler:Film/DieHardWithAVengeance]]'': Newly-introduced biracial New York couple bickers while solving children's puzzles, irritating a visiting European man who misses his brother.
67	** ''[[spoiler:Die Hard 4.0/Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard]]'': Man has to team up with geek to defeat thieves armed with... computers.
68	** ''[[spoiler:Film/AGoodDayToDieHard]]'': European thieves are defeated by a man who's having a really lousy vacation, but manages to reconcile with his estranged son.
69	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{District 9}}]]'': A man injured on the job gets no worker's compensation, so he decides to shoot up the place with an immigrant friend.
70	** Or: A baby killer is afraid of surgery, so he [[LudicrousGibs blows up]] his co-workers.
71	** Or: A spaceship full of foreigners breaks down over what is possibly the ''worst'' [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra city]] for a spaceship full of foreigners to break down over.
72	* [[spoiler:''Film/TheDivingBellAndTheButterfly'']]: A French man has a stroke and must communicate with his eye. Lots of symbolism.
73	* [[spoiler:''Film/DjangoUnchained'']]: Guy wants to see his wife again. People die and have [[SeinfeldianConversation weird]][[NWordPrivileges racist]] conversations along the way.
74	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DoctorStrange2016]]'': Series/{{Sherlock}} Holmes drops surgery and learns magic.
75	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness]]'': The above former surgeon has to deal with a young woman's delusions of motherhood and stop her from killing a teenage girl.
76	** Alternatively, a mom who lost her kids tries to kill a kid who lost her moms.
77	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DontLookUp]]'': Humanity is wiped out because two of the scientists that try to prove that it's going to happen are turned into a meme icon and a sex icon.
78	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DoraAndTheLostCityOfGold]]'': A group of teenagers go into the jungle to find an Inca temple, but their leader is not only a complete Cloudcuckoolander, but their only hope of survival. Sometimes the animals talk, sometimes they don't.
79	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DrStrangelove]]'': A man's sexual frustrations cause him to make some questionable decisions at work.
80	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DrWhoAndTheDaleks]]'': A popular TV story, [[CompressedAdaptation compressed]]. The AdaptationDecay is intensified by later seasons of the show.
81	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DodgeballATrueUnderdogStory]]'': A bunch of grown men play a SeriousBusiness version of a game played in elementary school gyms.
82	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DogDayAfternoon]]'': Bisexual tries financing his lover's sex change by robbing a bank, with help from his dimwitted friend. Based on true story.
83	** Alternatively: Three losers go the the bank to make a cash withdrawal ... and then everything goes pear-shaped.
84	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DogSoldiers]]'': British soldiers in Scotland [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner crack wise in the face of death]] as they fend off an attack by wild animals.
85	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Dogma}}]]'': Two disgraced angels try to exploit a loophole in Catholicism to kill God and destroy the universe, and it's up to an abortion clinic worker, two stoners, a stripper, and the 13th Apostle to stop them. And there's a monster made out of crap.
86	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DonnieDarko]]'': An anti-social teenager sees visions of an anthropomorphic rabbit, has a jet engine crash into his room, and has one month to prevent the end of the world... which he is the cause of.
87	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Doomsday}}]]'': Scotland has been sealed off from the world to contain a zombie-creating virus epidemic. Ten years later a crack British commando team is sent in to investigate signs of life. HilarityEnsues.
88	* ''[[spoiler: Down Under the Big Top]]'': The heartwarming, luridly-hued tale of [[Music/{{Newsboys}} a crazy-cool Aussie]] ChristianRock [[Music/{{Newsboys}} band,]] [[LongHairedPrettyBoy a breathtaking blonde runaway,]] and [[CrappyCarnival the saddest, most decrepit one-ring circus]] in the free world. It's supposedly a retelling of [[Literature/TheBible the parable of the prodigal son.]]
89	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Dracula 1931}}]]'': Two doctors and a solicitor from London must kill their neighbor because of his dental problems.
90	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DragMeToHell]]'': An old Romani woman is upset over losing her home.
91	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DragonballEvolution]]'': [[InNameOnly A loose adaptation]] of an equally loose retelling of a famous story that was VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory. And for most, as bad as it sounds.
92	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Dragonheart}}]]'': Man teams up with Creator/SeanConnery to kill his ex-student.
93	** Alternative: Scam artists goad villagers into helping them kill a transplant patient.
94	* ''[[spoiler:Theatre/{{Dreamgirls}}]]'': Big budget film based off of popular play about [[CaptainErsatz the members]] of a [[Music/TheSupremes girl group]] starring two comics, a Diva, a diminutive stage actor and a [[TheRunnerUpTakesItAll reality show loser]]. It wins a slew of awards.
95	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Dreamscape}}]]'': Is Creator/DennisQuaid badass enough to sleep with the President of the United States?
96	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheDrillerKiller]]'': An artist goes stark raving mad and takes his anger out on his oppressors by way of a drill to the head.
97	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DrivingMissDaisy]]'': An old white lady and a slightly less old black man slowly become friends over 20 years as she tries to assert independence while he tries to do his job of driving her around. In the end, ''[[spoiler: pie is had.]]''
98	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DropDeadFred]]'': A woman with a cheating husband, a domineering mother, and serious self-esteem issues figures out how to solve all her problems with the help of her imaginary friend from childhood.
99	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DropDeadGorgeous]]'': [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy Mary Jane Watson]] and the nuclear physicist from ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' compete in a beauty pageant.
100	* ''[[spoiler: Film/DuckSoup]]'': Cheerfully insane dictator with a bizarre mustache starts a war with his neighbors, while an Italian and an Irishman spy on him.
101	** ''[[spoiler:Theatre/AnimalCrackers]]'': Explorer with a bizarre mustache attempts to find stolen painting, while Italian and Irishman play music and attempt to hide it. Maybe.
102	** ''[[spoiler:Film/{{A Day at the Races\|1937}}]]'': An Italian and an Irishman get involved in horse racing so that a veterinarian with a bizarre mustache can take over a sanitarium for humans.
103	** ''[[spoiler:Film/ANightAtTheOpera]]'': Con artist with a bizarre mustache attempts to make money off of ''Theatre/IlTrovatore'', while Italian and Irishman play music and attempt to help the career of a tenor. The most famous scene has all of them, including the tenor, in a small room.
104	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DudeWheresMyCar]]'': Two guys with amnesia eat pudding and play with a Rubik's Cube. Out-of-towners try to seduce and/or mug them.
105	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Duel}}]]'': A guy in a car is followed by a truck.
106	** Or: ''Tailgating: The Movie''.
107	* ''[[spoiler:Film/DumbAndDumber]]'': The misadventures of two morons returning a briefcase.
108	** ''[[spoiler:Film/DumbAndDumberTo]]'': The misadventures of two morons delivering cupcakes.
109	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}]]'': A failed circus performer who keeps getting ridiculed for his large ears and his friend drink liquor to find out how to hit the big time.
110	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Dune\|2021}}]]'': Young man goes on a trek in the desert with his mom.
111	** ''[[spoiler:Film/DunePartTwo]]'': Young man becomes Jesus in that desert.

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