Tropescilloscope: Bowdlerise

The removal of "questionable" elements from media. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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