Tropescilloscope: As the Good Book Says...

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

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Pragmatic Villainy Pimped-Out Dress Evil vs. Evil Berserk Button She's Got Legs Flipping the Bird Dark Reprise Stepford Smiler The Vamp Every Car Is a Pinto Foreshadowing Eyepatch of Power Guns Akimbo Cat Fight Five-Man Band Kill It with Fire Outrun the Fireball Police Brutality Rape as Drama Based on a True Story Cool Shades Grey and Gray Morality Word of God Rasputinian Death More Dakka Exact Words Nice Hat Informed Ability All Men Are Perverts True Companions Breaking the Fourth Wall Alliterative Name Red Shirt Kids Are Cruel The Atoner You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Demoted to Extra Instant Death Bullet Leitmotif Evil Is Petty Broken Pedestal In Medias Res Anti-Hero Action Genre Skewed Priorities Did Not Get the Girl Drowning My Sorrows Handicapped Badass Sports Stories My Greatest Failure Amoral Attorney Bar Brawl Monumental Damage Unspoken Plan Guarantee Dual Wielding No Good Deed Goes Unpunished '80s Hair Hollywood Darkness Tagline A Date with Rosie Palms Shirtless Scene Ascended Extra Body Horror The Place Dumb Blonde No Name Given Cool Old Guy Mr. Fanservice Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Epic Movie Artistic License – Physics Death of a Child The Oner Humans Are Bastards Deconstruction Attempted Rape Double-Meaning Title Up to Eleven Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Chiaroscuro Blackmail Daddy's Girl Early Installment Weirdness The Sociopath Break the Cutie The Smurfette Principle Earn Your Happy Ending Spared by the Adaptation Victoria's Secret Compartment Adaptation Expansion Amusing Injuries The Alcoholic Creepy Child Translation Convention The Film of the Book Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Half the Man He Used to Be Cool Car Neck Snap Film Series Laser-Guided Karma Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Death by Adaptation Only Sane Man Race Against the Clock Bad Boss Adaptational Villainy Take That! Bolivian Army Ending From Nobody to Nightmare Love Triangle The Casanova Captain Ersatz Dissonant Serenity Heroic BSoD Shoot the Shaggy Dog Drugs Are Bad Chekhov's Skill The '60s Gone Horribly Right Christmas Movies Index Demonic Possession Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Really Gets Around Only One Name The Mole Vomit Indiscretion Shot Ambiguous Disorder Big Fancy House Action Prologue Would Hit a Girl The X of Y The '80s Playing Gertrude Butt-Monkey Plot Hole Captain Obvious Russian Films Foil The Dreaded Stealth Hi/Bye An Axe to Grind All There in the Script Reality Ensues Tempting Fate Only Known by Their Nickname Curse Cut Short It's All About Me Awesome, but Impractical Genre Throwback Book-Ends Better to Die than Be Killed Unusual Euphemism Wretched Hive Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Due to the Dead Big "NO!" Groin Attack It's Personal Drill Sergeant Nasty Sci-Fi Horror Setting Update No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Man on Fire The Alleged Car Badass Boast Shut Up, Hannibal! In Name Only Pretty in Mink I Did What I Had to Do Made of Iron Mythology Gag Male Gaze Mistaken for Gay Fainting Country Matters Almost Kiss Blatant Lies As Long as It Sounds Foreign Make It Look Like an Accident Double Entendre Unreliable Narrator Corpsing Poor Communication Kills An Aesop The Mafia Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Extreme Doormat Bloodier and Gorier Animal Motifs Composite Character Stock Footage Re-Cut Distracted by the Sexy Anti-Villain Cloudcuckoolander Deal with the Devil Flashback Those Two Bad Guys Destination Defenestration Intergenerational Friendship Black Best Friend Yandere All for Nothing Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Freudian Excuse Random Events Plot Apocalypse How Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Gory Discretion Shot Jerkass Has a Point Failed a Spot Check Nothing Is Scarier Noodle Incident Adaptation Distillation Bi the Way Accidental Misnaming Intrepid Reporter Smug Snake Large Ham Adaptational Badass Adapted Out You Killed My Father Accidental Murder Fiery Redhead Take a Third Option Dramatic Irony What Happened to the Mouse? 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Break the Haughty Big Applesauce Annoying Younger Sibling Hollywood Law Rule of Three Dark Is Not Evil Actor Allusion Thriller Rich Bitch Too Dumb to Live "Awesome McCool" Name Evil Plan Bond One-Liner Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Affably Evil The Cavalry Central Theme Insistent Terminology Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Scare Chord Cool Guns Names to Run Away from Really Fast Auto Erotica Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Calling the Old Man Out Expy Not So Above It All Friend to All Children Framing Device Malevolent Masked Men Artistic License – History Sole Survivor Interrupted Suicide Reality Has No Subtitles The Load Corrupt Corporate Executive Bittersweet Ending Epic Fail Facial Horror Maybe Ever After BFG Darker and Edgier Real Life Writes the Plot Bottomless Magazines Romantic Comedy Belligerent Sexual Tension Greater-Scope Villain Heel Realization Dirty Old Man Ass Shove Hoist by His Own Petard Blood Knight Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Big Damn Heroes Girl-on-Girl Is Hot A Minor Kidroduction Henpecked Husband Parental Abandonment As the Good Book Says... Big Eater Stealth Pun Sexy Discretion Shot Broken Aesop Crapsack World Cain and Abel Defrosting Ice Queen Anguished Declaration of Love Abusive Parents Cluster F-Bomb Dark Action Girl Artistic License – Military Freeze-Frame Bonus Insane Troll Logic Disney Villain Death Betty and Veronica What the Hell, Hero? Hypocritical Humor As Himself All There in the Manual La Résistance For Want of a Nail Vomit Discretion Shot Black Comedy Boom, Headshot! Mad Scientist Karmic Death Here We Go Again! Historical In-Joke Neck Lift Fantastic Racism Hong Kong Films Ripped from the Headlines Improbable Aiming Skills Reckless Gun Usage Jerk Jock Real Life Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Chekhov's Gun Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? The '50s Revenge Canon Foreigner Together in Death In the Back Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Mundane Made Awesome Punny Name Badass Bookworm It Can Think One Steve Limit World of Ham A.I. Is a Crapshoot He Who Fights Monsters Video Credits Storming the Castle Eye Scream Big-Bad Ensemble Determinator aka: The Determinator Your Head A-Splode Beware the Nice Ones Plucky Comic Relief Sir Swears-a-Lot Dramedy Bait-and-Switch "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Blood from the Mouth Catch-Phrase The Un-Reveal Mind Screw Genre Savvy Woman Scorned Ax-Crazy This Is Gonna Suck Rule of Funny Properly Paranoid Sassy Black Woman Curb-Stomp Battle Last-Name Basis Big Brother Instinct Stuff Blowing Up Despair Event Horizon Let's Get Dangerous! Spell My Name with an "S" Funny Foreigner Missing Mom Idiot Ball Adults Are Useless The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Morality Pet O.O.C. Is Serious Business Black Dude Dies First Improbable Weapon User Dark and Troubled Past Ambiguously Gay Pre-Mortem One-Liner The Musical Disappeared Dad Famous Last Words Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The Voiceless Line-of-Sight Name Tranquil Fury "The Reason You Suck" Speech Eiffel Tower Effect Aside Glance Chekhov's Gunman The Cameo And Starring There Is No Kill Like Overkill Arc Words My Beloved Smother Well-Intentioned Extremist Alas, Poor Villain Action Girl Spiteful Spit Improvised Weapon Covers Always Lie Combat Pragmatist Historical Hero Upgrade Face Death with Dignity The Ace Artistic License – Biology Soft Glass Pragmatic Adaptation Punch-Clock Villain Unresolved Sexual Tension Award-Bait Song Left the Background Music On Stalker with a Crush Becoming the Mask Daylight Horror Leaning on the Fourth Wall Slasher Movie Fanservice Never My Fault Say My Name Unusually Uninteresting Sight Totally Radical Same Language Dub Damsel in Distress Brainless Beauty I Need a Freaking Drink Tap on the Head Fingore Authority Equals Asskicking Historical Villain Upgrade Karma Houdini Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Adorkable Fan Disservice Manly Tears Offscreen Teleportation Ominous Latin Chanting Smoking Is Cool Papa Wolf Black and Gray Morality The Stoner Author Avatar The Chick Alpha Bitch Didn't Think This Through Wham Shot Jitter Cam Serial Killer Chase Scene It Will Never Catch On Mexican Standoff Mugging the Monster Bowdlerise Posthumous Character Deliberately Monochrome The Faceless Adaptation Name Change Broken Bird Time Skip Hope Spot Logo Joke Dropped a Bridge on Him Once More, with Clarity! Femme Fatale All Just a Dream Visual Pun Big Bad Duumvirate Superhero Sinister Minister Retired Badass Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Scary Black Man Off-into-the-Distance Ending Cruel and Unusual Death Darkest Hour Nice Guy Fatal Family Photo Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Obstructive Bureaucrat Downer Ending Car Fu Horror Comedy Adult Fear Implacable Man Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Catapult Nightmare Market-Based Title Shout-Out Your Cheating Heart Paper-Thin Disguise Evil Counterpart Heterosexual Life-Partners Character Development Call-Forward Exactly What It Says on the Tin One-Man Army Cassandra Truth Put on a Bus Fourth Date Marriage Artistic License – Gun Safety Stylistic Suck Have a Gay Old Time Big Bad Four-Temperament Ensemble Advertised Extra Music Stories Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Guile Hero Retirony Lampshade Hanging The Power of Love And the Adventure Continues Hooker with a Heart of Gold Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Jerk with a Heart of Gold Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The Dragon Gender Flip Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Deadpan Snarker Australian Movies Decoy Protagonist Light Is Not Good Mighty Whitey Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Dramatic Gun Cock Spiritual Successor Heroes Want Redheads Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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