Tropescilloscope: Bowdlerise

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

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