Tropescilloscope: As the Good Book Says...

Quoting The Bible for effect. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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