Tropescilloscope: Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun

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