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