Tropescilloscope: Country Matters

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

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