Tropescilloscope: Country Matters

The effects of the word "cunt" differs based on culture. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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