Tropescilloscope: As the Good Book Says...

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

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