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