Tropescilloscope: Country Matters

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

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