Tropescilloscope: As the Good Book Says...

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

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