Tropescilloscope: As the Good Book Says...

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

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