Tropescilloscope: Bowdlerise

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

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