Tropescilloscope: Bilingual Bonus

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

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