Tropescilloscope: Wham Line

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

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