Tropescilloscope: Bowdlerise

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

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