Tropescilloscope: Catch-Phrase

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

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