Tropescilloscope: A God Am I

Delusions of godhood. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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