Tropescilloscope: Bowdlerise

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

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