Tropescilloscope: Country Matters

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

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