Tropescilloscope: Stealth Pun

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