Tropescilloscope: Catch-Phrase

A character says a specific sentence many times. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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