Tropescilloscope: Bowdlerise

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

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