Tropescilloscope: Punny Name

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