Tropescilloscope: As the Good Book Says...

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

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