Tropescilloscope: As the Good Book Says...

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

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