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Cinematic Expiration drives story, creates need, provides opportunity, and provokes vengeance. The Undead have chosen to honor those who pretend to expire and the professionals that make them look as if they really did.

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Most Deserving Cinematic Expiration
The audience cheers when this character finally gets theirs. 

Most Noble Cinematic Expiration
For the character that sacrifices themselves and the audience actually cared. 

Most Bizarre Cinematic Expiration
The kind of expiration where the audience doesn't know how to react. 

Most Gratuitous Feature for Cinematic Expiration (primarily using guns)
Wonderful, beautiful violence, featuring gunplay.  

Most Gratuitous Feature for Cinematic Expiration (primarily without the use of guns)
Wonderful, beautiful violence, but a bit more creative than pulling a trigger. 

Most Over- the- Top Cinematic Expiration
It wasn't enough that the character dies... any one of what happens to this character should have done them in the first time. 

Most Revealing Cinematic Expiration
Violence isn't the only thing that's gratuitous in modern cinema. 

Most Vain Attempt to Escape Cinematic Expiration
Characters try everything in their power to escape, but don't. 

Most Believable Cinematic Expiration
When the audience wonders whether or not they just saw a special effect or not, but they did. 

Best Computer Generated Cinematic Expiration
Stuff even the best make-up people can't make look good.  

Best Portrayal of an Expired Character
They're already dead, but making the best of it. Like us. 

Best Animated Cinematic Expiration
Cartoons bash away at each other relentlessly, but sometimes they don't get back up. 

Best Cinematic Expiration for a Villain
This evil character had to go, and did they ever!  

Best Sees- it- Coming Cinematic Expiration
They see it, can't stop it, deserve it, and they get it. 

Best Overreaction for a Lame Cinematic Expiration
Someone witnesses another's demise, and what we see isn't a tenth as bad as the reaction of the characters in the film. 

Best Cinematic Expiration Due to Decapitation
Best not to lose one's head over this category. 

Biggest Waste of a Perfectly Good Villain Due to Cinematic Expiration
Ding, dong the witch is dead... but oh! What a witch she was! 

Worst Cinematic Expiration We Can Only Imagine
We didn't see it happen, and many breathe a sigh of relief that they didn't. 

The Saddest, Most Immoral and Deplorable Cinematic Expiration of the Bernie Awards
Why? Why did this have to happen? Oh, the inhumanity of it all!

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