Tropescilloscope: Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun

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