Tropescilloscope: Loophole Abuse

Blatant cheating through semantics. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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