Tropescilloscope: Agony of the Feet

There's no thrill of victory when you hurt your foot. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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