Tropescilloscope: As the Good Book Says...

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

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