Tropescilloscope: Bowdlerise

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

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