Tropescilloscope: Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun

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