Tropescilloscope: Bowdlerise

The removal of "questionable" elements from media. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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