Tropescilloscope: Country Matters

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

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