Tropescilloscope: Bowdlerise

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

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