Tropescilloscope: Agony of the Feet

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

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Or Is It? From Nobody to Nightmare Unspoken Plan Guarantee The Quiet One Face–Heel Turn Captain Ersatz Red Eyes, Take Warning Abusive Parents "The Reason You Suck" Speech Costume Porn Setting Update Break the Cutie Honor Before Reason Intergenerational Friendship Catapult Nightmare Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene '80s Hair The '50s The Ghost Extremely Short Timespan The Brute Cassandra Truth Never Found the Body Unreliable Narrator Darker and Edgier Foreshadowing Continuity Nod It Will Never Catch On Death Seeker Armor-Piercing Question Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Death Glare Central Theme Dressing as the Enemy My Beloved Smother Nothing Is Scarier Ms. Fanservice More Dakka Fan Disservice Left the Background Music On A Father to His Men Our Zombies Are Different No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Shell-Shocked Veteran Heroes Want Redheads Undying Loyalty Heterosexual Life-Partners Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Drowning My Sorrows Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy O.O.C. Is Serious Business Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass One Steve Limit Hero of Another Story "Well Done, Son!" 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Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Domestic Abuse Stylistic Suck Artistic License – Physics Animated Credits Opening Mythology Gag As the Good Book Says... Actor Allusion Gainax Ending Music Stories Adaptational Attractiveness Sealed Evil in a Can May–December Romance French Films A.I. Is a Crapshoot Catch-Phrase Bullying a Dragon Genre Throwback Artistic License – Military Facial Horror Brutal Honesty Made of Iron Parental Substitute Determinator aka: The Determinator Black Comedy Rape Everyone Has Standards Beware the Nice Ones For Want of a Nail Scary Black Man Betty and Veronica Slasher Movie Bad "Bad Acting" Film Series Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Big Bad It Can Think Adapted Out Flashback Expy Funny Foreigner Cool Old Guy Mystery and Detective Films Taking the Bullet Lighter and Softer Coming-of-Age Story Curb-Stomp Battle Real Life Writes the Plot Wounded Gazelle Gambit Action Survivor Interrupted Suicide Video Credits Arranged Marriage Sexy Discretion Shot Big Applesauce Auto Erotica Extreme Doormat Humans Are Bastards Ambiguous Ending Ax-Crazy Deconstruction Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Well-Intentioned Extremist Ironic Echo I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Early-Bird Cameo Dumb Blonde Our Vampires Are Different Only in It for the Money Precision F-Strike Rule of Cool Stuff Blowing Up Immune to Bullets Killed Mid-Sentence Shut Up, Hannibal! Conspicuous CG Hidden Depths Fatal Family Photo The Casanova Guns Akimbo Whole Plot Reference Corpsing The Big Guy Blatant Lies Getting Crap Past the Radar Driven to Suicide Kill It with Fire Disney Death Revenge Mad Scientist Horror Films It's Personal Gory Discretion Shot Double-Meaning Title The Vamp Accidental Misnaming The Hero Have a Gay Old Time Offscreen Teleportation Author Avatar Military and Warfare Films Evil-Detecting Dog Homage Spiteful Spit Woman Scorned Once More, with Clarity! Cloudcuckoolander Adaptation Expansion Too Dumb to Live Pragmatic Adaptation Those Two Guys Large Ham Light Is Not Good Real Life Hypocrite As Long as It Sounds Foreign Russian Films Animal Title Index Oh, Crap! Celebrity Paradox Insistent Terminology The Cameo Downer Ending Psychopathic Manchild Stealth Pun Punny Name N-Word Privileges Expository Hairstyle Change The Cavalry What the Hell, Hero? 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The Musical Chase Scene The Stoic Knight Templar And the Adventure Continues Danny Peary Cult Movies List Gender Flip The Reveal Manic Pixie Dream Girl Contrived Coincidence Heel–Face Turn Disappeared Dad Here We Go Again! Fantasy Films Market-Based Title Cain and Abel Based on a True Story Disproportionate Retribution Faking the Dead The '60s Police are Useless Mexican Standoff Cat Scare Did Not Get the Girl A Date with Rosie Palms Chuck Cunningham Syndrome An Axe to Grind Mood Whiplash Back from the Dead Boom, Headshot! Wicked Cultured The Chick Mind Screw Throwing Your Sword Always Works Freeze-Frame Bonus Crazy Jealous Guy Call-Back Kick the Dog Mistaken for Gay Meet Cute Ragtag Bunch of Misfits The Starscream Rule of Symbolism Instant Death Bullet Air-Vent Passageway I Did What I Had to Do Tempting Fate timeperiod All There in the Script No Celebrities Were Harmed I'm a Humanitarian In Medias Res Retcon Pretty in Mink Politically Incorrect Villain Bad Boss Playing Gertrude Laser-Guided Karma Off with His Head! Unusually Uninteresting Sight Animal Motifs Affably Evil Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Narrator Rousing Speech Love at First Sight Running Gag Didn't Think This Through Suspiciously Similar Substitute Action Genre Roaring Rampage of Revenge Jerkass Has a Point Informed Ability A God Am I Villain with Good Publicity Drugs Are Bad Put on a Bus Refuge in Audacity Overly Long Gag Motor Mouth Ascended Extra Meaningful Background Event Developing Doomed Characters Darkest Hour Bald of Evil Knife Nut You Killed My Father The Dragon Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Cold-Blooded Torture Bait-and-Switch Becoming the Mask Ship Tease Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Foregone Conclusion Bavarian Fire Drill Big-Bad Ensemble Pre-Mortem One-Liner Superhero Punch-Clock Villain All There in the Manual Improbable Aiming Skills Documentary Together in Death Hate Sink Corrupt Corporate Executive Belligerent Sexual Tension Australian Movies Obfuscating Stupidity Laughing Mad Red Shirt Crapsack World Insult Backfire Creepy Child Older Than They Look Bunny-Ears Lawyer German Films Poor Communication Kills Canadian Movies The Bad Guy Wins No-Sell Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Chekhov's Gunman British Films Humiliation Conga Trailers Always Spoil Adaptational Heroism Aww, Look! 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Token Minority Hooker with a Heart of Gold Good Is Not Nice No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Crucified Hero Shot Deal with the Devil Deliberate Values Dissonance Beauty Is Never Tarnished Adaptation Name Change Historical Hero Upgrade Reckless Gun Usage Historical In-Joke Crazy-Prepared Serious Business Hypocritical Humor Big Brother Instinct Soft Glass Dying Moment of Awesome Bare Your Midriff Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Dramatic Irony Deus ex Machina Badass Grandpa Intrepid Reporter Closed Circle Bi the Way Wrong Genre Savvy Big Fancy House Lampshade Hanging Evil Plan Outrun the Fireball There Is No Kill Like Overkill Tap on the Head Awesome, but Impractical What Happened to the Mouse? Dark and Troubled Past Soundtrack Dissonance Camp Gay Batman Gambit The Voiceless Guile Hero Small Name, Big Ego Non-Indicative Name Affectionate Parody Jitter Cam Dies Wide Open BFG Not So Different The X of Y Only Sane Man Gratuitous English What You Are in the Dark Monumental Damage Anti-Hero Meaningful Echo Bloody Hilarious Novelization Neck Lift Grievous Bottley Harm Red Oni, Blue Oni Obviously Evil Dark Action Girl Fainting Papa Wolf Logo Joke Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Sacrificial Lion Bilingual Bonus Woman in White All Men Are Perverts You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Mr. Fanservice Arc Words Properly Paranoid Posthumous Character Not What It Looks Like Madness Mantra Distracted by the Sexy Genre Savvy Famous Last Words Works Set in World War II The Stoner The Ditz Decoy Protagonist In the Back Deadpan Snarker A Minor Kidroduction Alas, Poor Villain Adaptation Distillation Shoot the Shaggy Dog Suspiciously Specific Denial Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Hero Antagonist Evil Laugh Cool Guns Not Using the "Z" Word Annoying Younger Sibling Film Noir Spiritual Successor Kubrick Stare Anti-Villain Call-Forward Insane Troll Logic Black Best Friend Hollywood Law Cool Shades Pretty Little Headshots Sir Swears-a-Lot My Greatest Failure Ass Shove Bond One-Liner Leave the Camera Running Redemption Equals Death Framing Device Artistic License – History Take a Third Option Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Ungrateful Bastard Does This Remind You of Anything? Green-Eyed Monster Men Are the Expendable Gender She's Got Legs Fate Worse than Death Eyepatch of Power Ambiguously Gay Eldritch Abomination Anyone Can Die As You Know Mighty Whitey Author Appeal Offscreen Moment of Awesome Depraved Bisexual Adorkable Covers Always Lie Love Triangle Fat Bastard Camera Abuse Italian Films Vampire Fiction The Ace Unwitting Instigator of Doom Slasher Smile Creator Cameo The Dreaded Heroic Sacrifice Apocalypse How Cat Fight Wham Line Car Fu Riddle for the Ages The Remake Scare Chord Agony of the Feet Adaptation Dye-Job Karma Houdini Missing Mom Retired Badass Stock Footage Sci-Fi Horror Say My Name Retirony Jerk Jock Arch-Enemy Brick Joke Shown Their Work Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Not Even Bothering with the Accent The Smurfette Principle Index of Film Westerns Up to Eleven Face Death with Dignity Mr. Exposition The Mafia Manly Tears Alliterative Name Chiaroscuro Adult Fear