Tropescilloscope: Wham Line

A single line of dialogue that changes everything. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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