Tropescilloscope: As the Good Book Says...

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

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