Tropescilloscope: Bowdlerise

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

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