Tropescilloscope: Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun

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