Tropescilloscope: As the Good Book Says...

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

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