Tropescilloscope: Catch-Phrase

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

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