Tropescilloscope: Country Matters

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

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