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