Tropescilloscope: As the Good Book Says...

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

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