Tropescilloscope: As the Good Book Says...

Quoting The Bible for effect. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Neck Snap Damsel in Distress Adaptational Badass Soundtrack Dissonance Taking the Bullet Casting Gag Lighter and Softer Alas, Poor Villain For Want of a Nail Chase Scene Fatal Flaw Novelization Deal with the Devil The Load Fish out of Water Reality Is Unrealistic What the Hell, Hero? Disproportionate Retribution Coming-of-Age Story Expy Woman Scorned Anachronism Stew Not Quite Dead Unusual Euphemism Laughing Mad Vampire Fiction The Vamp The Voiceless Cloudcuckoolander Your Cheating Heart Eyepatch of Power Sci-Fi Horror Fate Worse than Death Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Evil Laugh Extreme Doormat "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Gender Flip Kill It with Fire Historical Villain Upgrade Daddy's Girl Accidental Misnaming Recycled IN SPACE! Wicked Cultured Hero Antagonist timeperiod Humans Are Bastards Celebrity Paradox Slasher Smile Playing Gertrude All Just a Dream Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Eagleland Freudian Excuse Bait-and-Switch Big Fancy House Boom, Headshot! Face Death with Dignity No Antagonist Bolivian Army Ending Insistent Terminology Beard of Evil Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Artistic License – Geography Killed Mid-Sentence You Killed My Father The Alleged Car Never Found the Body Science Fiction Films I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Guns Akimbo Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Super Strength An Aesop No Ending Big Eater Suspiciously Specific Denial MacGuffin Mighty Whitey Funny Foreigner Training Montage The Quiet One Curb-Stomp Battle Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Adaptation Dye-Job Heroes Want Redheads Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Fiery Redhead Manly Tears Hell Is That Noise Action Girl Parental Substitute Tagline Gone Horribly Right Establishing Character Moment Scare Chord Mexican Standoff Badass in a Nice Suit Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Wretched Hive Shout-Out The Un-Reveal Madness Mantra Spanner in the Works Early Installment Weirdness You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Leitmotif Gorn Tempting Fate Good Is Not Nice Artistic License – Gun Safety Wham Line Match Cut Precision F-Strike Hypocrite Rasputinian Death Silent Movie Word of God Evil Counterpart Badass Normal Determinator aka: The Determinator Bloody Hilarious Crazy-Prepared Soft Glass Police Brutality Combat Pragmatist Needs Wiki Magic Love Fat Bastard Japanese Films Developing Doomed Characters The Reveal Wounded Gazelle Gambit Paper-Thin Disguise Mystery and Detective Films Adaptation Expansion She's Got Legs Foreshadowing Homage Affably Evil Reality Ensues Camera Abuse Informed Ability Idiot Ball Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Badass Grandpa All Girls Want Bad Boys Riddle for the Ages The '60s Asshole Victim Fan Disservice Small Name, Big Ego Outrun the Fireball Aside Glance World of Ham Disappeared Dad Shut Up, Hannibal! Department of Redundancy Department Berserk Button Totally Radical Bring My Brown Pants Fanservice Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Stylistic Suck Bloodier and Gorier Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Unreliable Narrator Nice Hat "The Reason You Suck" Speech Villain Ball Foil Evil Is Hammy Real Life Writes the Plot Darker and Edgier Those Two Bad Guys Mooks Groin Attack Age Lift Stalker with a Crush Title Drop Evil vs. Evil Cat Scare Comically Missing the Point Composite Character Arc Words Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Romantic False Lead Pragmatic Villainy Bullying a Dragon Interrupted Suicide Ms. Fanservice Once More, with Clarity! Meaningful Background Event Hollywood Law Villainous Breakdown She Cleans Up Nicely Loads and Loads of Characters Made of Explodium Mind Screw Cat Fight Toplessness from the Back Call-Back Failed a Spot Check Black Comedy Rape Spiritual Successor Grievous Bottley Harm The Mole Skewed Priorities Green-Eyed Monster In Medias Res Zombie Stories Corrupt Corporate Executive Our Vampires Are Different Men Are the Expendable Gender Throwing Your Sword Always Works The Ace Greater-Scope Villain Death Glare Mythology Gag The '50s Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Would Hurt a Child Crazy Jealous Guy Epic Movie Anyone Can Die Offscreen Teleportation Our Zombies Are Different Apocalypse How Animated Credits Opening BFG Aluminum Christmas Trees Alliterative Name Fantastic Racism Worthy Opponent Brother–Sister Incest No Name Given Cain and Abel Stealth Pun Maybe Ever After Action Prologue Attempted Rape Body Horror Red Eyes, Take Warning French Films Amoral Attorney Abusive Parents Not Even Bothering with the Accent It Will Never Catch On Motor Mouth Monumental Damage Mad Scientist A God Am I Love at First Sight Truth in Television Here We Go Again! Smoking Is Cool Genre Savvy Did Not Get the Girl And the Adventure Continues Character Development Break the Cutie Laser-Guided Karma Hate Sink Oh, Crap! Anguished Declaration of Love The Great Depression Historical-Domain Character Obstructive Bureaucrat Everyone Has Standards Heroic Sacrifice The Alcoholic Daylight Horror Fainting Take That! Villain Protagonist Revenge Improbable Weapon User Award-Bait Song Roaring Rampage of Revenge Make It Look Like an Accident Manchild Adorkable Put on a Bus Anti-Villain Annoying Younger Sibling Becoming the Mask Biopic Love Triangle Didn't Think This Through Eye Scream Adult Fear Dumb Blonde Would Hit a Girl Captain Obvious Man on Fire Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Scary Black Man Exactly What It Says on the Tin Slap-Slap-Kiss Half the Man He Used to Be Depraved Bisexual From Nobody to Nightmare Betty and Veronica Names to Run Away from Really Fast Left the Background Music On Hair-Trigger Temper Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism B-Movie Say My Name Dogged Nice Guy Country Matters Trailers Always Spoil I Did What I Had to Do The Mafia Handicapped Badass Dark Action Girl The '90s Show Within a Show Romantic Comedy Mundane Made Awesome Hooker with a Heart of Gold Logo Joke Scenery Porn Adults Are Useless Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Dramedy Ambiguously Gay Heel–Face Turn It Can Think Crapsack World Off with His Head! As the Good Book Says... Ungrateful Bastard Arranged Marriage The Lost Lenore Line-of-Sight Name Rape as Drama Defrosting Ice Queen Breaking the Fourth Wall The Bad Guy Wins The Stoner Despair Event Horizon The Faceless Awesome, but Impractical Only Sane Man Deliberately Monochrome Peek-a-Boo Corpse Cool Car Moment Killer Get Out! Older Than They Look The Musical Translation Convention Straight Gay Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Creative Closing Credits Babies Ever After Animal Title Index Made of Iron Smug Snake Double Entendre Double-Meaning Title Gold Digger Those Wacky Nazis Kick the Dog Dual Wielding Suspiciously Similar Substitute Badass Longcoat Belligerent Sexual Tension Central Theme Disguised in Drag Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Smart Guy Yandere Auto Erotica Tap on the Head Adapted Out Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Chekhov's Gunman A Father to His Men Fatal Family Photo Conspicuous CG Rule of Cool Redemption Equals Death Bond Villain Stupidity Cold-Blooded Torture Fake Shemp Meaningful Name Retirony Genre Shift Not So Stoic As Long as It Sounds Foreign Gratuitous English Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Dark Reprise Nice Guy Cool Shades In Name Only Children Are Innocent Re-Cut As You Know Stock Footage Parental Neglect Bowdlerise Overly Long Gag Kubrick Stare Manic Pixie Dream Girl Cowboy Cop Anti-Hero Parental Incest Same Language Dub Bar Brawl Big Brother Instinct Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Evil Plan Bi the Way The Ghost Danny Peary Cult Movies List It's All About Me The Atoner Meaningful Echo Defiant to the End Serial Killer Blackmail Never Trust a Trailer The Lancer Four-Temperament Ensemble Rule of Three Fire-Forged Friends Heel Realization Retired Badass Lock and Load Montage In the Back Cool Guns La Résistance Adaptation Distillation Ass Shove Honor Before Reason Took a Level in Jerkass Disney Villain Death Canon Foreigner The Big Guy Rich Bitch Sinister Minister Call-Forward Bad Boss Leaning on the Fourth Wall Video Credits Non-Indicative Name Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Stealth Hi/Bye Author Avatar Off-into-the-Distance Ending Bound and Gagged Hoist by His Own Petard Race Against the Clock Decoy Protagonist Funny Background Event Rated M for Manly Retcon Badass Bookworm Happily Married Deus ex Machina All for Nothing A.I. Is a Crapshoot Random Events Plot O.O.C. Is Serious Business This Is Gonna Suck Accidental Murder Credits Gag Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Horror Films Rewatch Bonus What Happened to the Mouse? Cool Old Guy The Remake Twist Ending German Films Implacable Man Getting Crap Past the Radar Works Set in World War II May–December Romance Sadistic Choice Big-Bad Ensemble No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Antagonist Title The Oner Guile Hero The Bully The Chick Important Haircut Enemy Mine Destination Defenestration War Is Hell Villain Opening Scene The '80s Vomit Discretion Shot Poor Communication Kills Grey and Gray Morality Broken Aesop Mood Whiplash Red Right Hand Slasher Movie Only One Name Sealed Evil in a Can Artistic License – Military Ax-Crazy Corpsing Affectionate Parody Diabolus ex Machina Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Dark Is Not Evil Product Placement Bunny-Ears Lawyer Pet the Dog Historical Hero Upgrade Anachronic Order Sequel Hook The Stinger My Greatest Failure Demonic Possession The Casanova Take a Third Option Pimped-Out Dress Creepy Child Ambiguous Ending Kill 'em All Jump Scare Final Girl Advertised Extra Demoted to Extra True Companions Mr. Fanservice Dwindling Party Imagine Spot Really Gets Around Morality Pet Bottomless Magazines Death by Sex Shirtless Scene Kick the Son of a Bitch Obviously Evil Death Seeker Black Comedy Italian Films Visual Pun Kids Are Cruel Pay Evil unto Evil I'm a Humanitarian Big Applesauce Foregone Conclusion The Hero Framing Device Ascended Extra No OSHA Compliance Overprotective Dad Offscreen Moment of Awesome Actually Pretty Funny Brutal Honesty Naked People Are Funny Film Noir Index Deconstruction Stepford Smiler Does This Remind You of Anything? Epic Fail For the Evulz Deliberate Values Dissonance Based on a True Story Captain Ersatz Dramatic Gun Cock Beware the Nice Ones Russian Films Broken Bird Frame-Up The Power of Love Drugs Are Bad Hope Spot Whole Plot Reference After the End What You Are in the Dark Took a Level in Badass Jerk with a Heart of Gold Leave the Camera Running Dirty Cop Room Full of Crazy Hollywood Darkness Big "NO!" Back from the Dead The Dreaded Catapult Nightmare Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Domestic Abuse Curse Cut Short Politically Incorrect Villain Hong Kong Films Psychopathic Manchild Adaptation Name Change Bloodless Carnage Plot Hole The Cameo Big Bad Christmas Movies Index Psycho for Hire Air-Vent Passageway The Place Rule of Symbolism Catch-Phrase Protagonist Title Dirty Old Man Running Gag Artistic License – Law Big Bad Duumvirate Evil Brit Fantasy Films I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Villain with Good Publicity Jerkass Has a Point Storming the Castle Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Dragon Instant Death Bullet Fanservice Extra Insane Troll Logic Vitriolic Best Buds Creator Cameo Dying Moment of Awesome Action Genre I Have Your Wife Time Skip The Starscream Hidden Depths Sequel Escalation Bad "Bad Acting" Drill Sergeant Nasty Redshirt Army Heroic BSoD Superhero Police are Useless Sole Survivor Rule of Funny Freeze-Frame Bonus Darkest Hour All Men Are Perverts Drowning My Sorrows Shoot the Shaggy Dog Naïve Newcomer Crucified Hero Shot Contrived Coincidence Bittersweet Ending Fingore Hero of Another Story Canadian Movies Slashed Throat Australian Movies Cassandra Truth Last-Name Basis Flipping the Bird Stuff Blowing Up Neck Lift Eiffel Tower Effect Death by Irony Mistaken for Gay Taking You with Me Obfuscating Stupidity Blood Knight Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Manipulative Bastard Up to Eleven As Himself Married to the Job Posthumous Character Evil-Detecting Dog Bare Your Midriff Face–Heel Turn Music Stories Immune to Bullets Documentary Costume Porn Male Gaze Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Red Herring Wrong Genre Savvy Henpecked Husband Does Not Like Shoes Beauty Is Never Tarnished folderlabel Punch-Clock Villain Badass Boast Dressing as the Enemy Jerkass Improvised Weapon Pre-Mortem One-Liner Tranquil Fury Ghost Fiction Adaptational Attractiveness Setting Update Distracted by the Sexy Narrator Too Dumb to Live Mama Bear Male Frontal Nudity Improbable Aiming Skills Humiliation Conga Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Due to the Dead Major Injury Underreaction NO INDOOR VOICE I Need a Freaking Drink Self-Deprecation The X of Y Blatant Lies Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Bury Your Gays Brainless Beauty Adaptational Villainy The End... Or Is It? Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Not What It Looks Like Calling the Old Man Out My Beloved Smother Dirty Coward Blood from the Mouth Bond One-Liner Only Known by Their Nickname Large Ham Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Rousing Speech Animal Motifs Insult Backfire Genre Throwback Famous Last Words Heterosexual Life-Partners Sanity Slippage Dull Surprise Missing Mom Sexy Discretion Shot Easily Forgiven My God, What Have I Done? "Shaggy Dog" Story He Knows Too Much Jerk Jock Reasonable Authority Figure Psychological Thriller Your Head A-Splode Evil Is Petty Reality Has No Subtitles 20 Minutes into the Future Public Domain Feature Films Real Life British Films Death of a Child Early-Bird Cameo No Celebrities Were Harmed You Have Failed Me Refuge in Audacity The Cavalry Token Minority Together in Death Gainax Ending Karma Houdini Almost Kiss Spell My Name with an "S" Only in It for the Money A Minor Kidroduction Pretty Little Headshots The Brute Pretty in Mink Knife Nut Femme Fatale Every Car Is a Pinto Be Careful What You Wish For Flashback The Sociopath Better to Die than Be Killed Shower Scene Index of Film Westerns Unspoken Plan Guarantee Irony Lampshade Hanging Exact Words Pyrrhic Victory Mr. Exposition Determinator One Steve Limit Earn Your Happy Ending There Is No Kill Like Overkill And Starring Extremely Short Timespan Evil Sounds Deep Not So Above It All Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Never My Fault Light Is Not Good Cluster F-Bomb Dark and Troubled Past Black Best Friend Race Lift Cool Old Lady Military and Warfare Films The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Well-Intentioned Extremist Chiaroscuro Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Actor Allusion The Hero Dies Mugging the Monster "Well Done, Son!" Guy Undying Loyalty Unresolved Sexual Tension Vomit Indiscretion Shot Faux Affably Evil Thriller Martial Arts Movie Film Noir Dissonant Serenity Abhorrent Admirer Dropped a Bridge on Him Facial Horror Red Shirt Chekhov's Skill Woman in White Television Movie Index From Bad to Worse '80s Hair The Smurfette Principle Meet Cute Adaptational Heroism Red Oni, Blue Oni Even Evil Has Standards Friend to All Children Nothing Is Scarier And I Must Scream Bland-Name Product Reckless Gun Usage Ship Tease More Dakka Deadpan Snarker Action Survivor All There in the Script Batman Gambit Have a Gay Old Time Drives Like Crazy Let's Get Dangerous! Sassy Black Woman Butt-Monkey Ripped from the Headlines Wham Shot The Stoic No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Empathic Environment Spiteful Spit Sports Stories Ambiguous Disorder Mercy Kill Author Appeal Shipper on Deck Agony of the Feet Villain Song One-Word Title Brick Joke A Date with Rosie Palms Armor-Piercing Question Shell-Shocked Veteran The Chessmaster Star-Crossed Lovers Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Knight Templar Jitter Cam You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Broken Pedestal Plucky Comic Relief Eldritch Abomination Punny Name One-Man Army Artistic License – Physics Continuity Nod Covers Always Lie Scenery Gorn The Dog Bites Back Malevolent Masked Men Eureka Moment Unusually Uninteresting Sight Ominous Latin Chanting Chewing the Scenery The '70s Dies Wide Open Sir Swears-a-Lot Even Evil Has Loved Ones Closed Circle Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds The Ditz Alpha Bitch Shown Their Work Gory Discretion Shot Book-Ends Very Loosely Based on a True Story Death by Adaptation Arch-Enemy Not So Different Properly Paranoid Amusing Injuries Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping How We Got Here Five-Man Band It's Personal Horror Comedy Camp Gay Suddenly SHOUTING! Not Using the "Z" Word N-Word Privileges Historical In-Joke Driven to Suicide Cruel and Unusual Death Card-Carrying Villain Fourth Date Marriage Fun with Acronyms Ironic Echo Pragmatic Adaptation Expository Hairstyle Change Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Downer Ending Bavarian Fire Drill Gilligan Cut Silence Is Golden Disney Death Those Two Guys Sacrificial Lion Spared by the Adaptation Bilingual Bonus Noodle Incident All There in the Manual "Awesome McCool" Name Film Series Faking the Dead Chekhov's Gun Big Damn Heroes Karmic Death Papa Wolf Black Dude Dies First An Axe to Grind Artistic License – Biology Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Intrepid Reporter Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Parental Abandonment Beta Couple No-Sell Vacation Films Punctuated! For! Emphasis! He Who Fights Monsters Dutch Angle Hypocritical Humor Intergenerational Friendship Market-Based Title Only a Flesh Wound Car Fu Artistic License – History Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Bald of Evil Victoria's Secret Compartment Loophole Abuse Authority Equals Asskicking The Film of the Book Dramatic Irony Serious Business Break the Haughty Black and Gray Morality An Arm and a Leg