Tropescilloscope: And I Must Scream

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

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