Tropescilloscope: Stealth Pun

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