Tropescilloscope: And I Must Scream

A Fate Worse than Death from which there is no escape, not even suicide. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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