Tropescilloscope: Loophole Abuse

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

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