Tropescilloscope: Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun

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