Tropescilloscope: Punny Name

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