Tropescilloscope: Catch-Phrase

A character says a specific sentence many times. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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