Tropescilloscope: Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun

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