Tropescilloscope: Bowdlerise

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

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