Tropescilloscope: Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun

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