Tropescilloscope: Punny Name

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