Tropescilloscope: Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun

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