Tropescilloscope: As the Good Book Says...

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

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