Tropescilloscope: Agony of the Feet

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

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