Tropescilloscope: As the Good Book Says...

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

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