Tropescilloscope: Fun with Acronyms

Acronym spells something funny or significant. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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