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