Tropescilloscope: N-Word Privileges

Specific racial slurs and insults are acceptable within the group they target, but generally not outside. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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