Tropescilloscope: Country Matters

The effects of the word "cunt" differs based on culture. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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