Tropescilloscope: Exact Words

True to the letter, not the spirit. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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