Tropescilloscope: Bilingual Bonus

Knowing a foreign language gets you a little something extra. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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