Tropescilloscope: Ax-Crazy

A deranged character prone to random violence. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Chase Scene Drugs Are Bad Bavarian Fire Drill No OSHA Compliance Apocalypse How Bittersweet Ending In Medias Res Deliberately Monochrome Heroic Sacrifice Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Public Domain Feature Films B-Movie Failed a Spot Check Madness Mantra "Shaggy Dog" Story No-Sell Kick the Dog Jump Scare Fantastic Racism Informed Ability Dressing as the Enemy Accidental Murder Not So Above It All Pay Evil unto Evil Bait-and-Switch Military and Warfare Films The Stinger Bi the Way Parental Substitute Action Prologue Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Cowboy Cop Death by Sex Jerk with a Heart of Gold Badass Bookworm Captain Ersatz Villain Song Fan Disservice Tap on the Head Continuity Nod Sequel Hook Crazy-Prepared Dirty Cop Bond Villain Stupidity Shipper on Deck Reality Is Unrealistic Narrator Adapted Out Romantic False Lead Adults Are Useless Funny Background Event Curse Cut Short The Brute Retirony Evil Brit Historical In-Joke O.O.C. Is Serious Business Brick Joke Darkest Hour Really Gets Around Downer Ending Hope Spot Chekhov's Gunman Dark and Troubled Past Villain Ball Improvised Weapon Would Hurt a Child Pragmatic Villainy Fanservice Extra Early Installment Weirdness Ax-Crazy Bald of Evil For the Evulz Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Naïve Newcomer Facial Horror Dying Moment of Awesome Parental Incest The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Super Strength Canadian Movies Ship Tease Deus ex Machina Loads and Loads of Characters Actor Allusion Flashback Call-Forward Beta Couple Ass Shove Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Dramedy The Dog Bites Back An Axe to Grind Mooks Big Brother Instinct Bottomless Magazines Toplessness from the Back An Arm and a Leg Word of God How We Got Here The Cameo Bound and Gagged Deliberate Values Dissonance Ironic Echo Parental Neglect Your Head A-Splode Eldritch Abomination Disappeared Dad Expository Hairstyle Change Cloudcuckoolander Our Zombies Are Different Animal Title Index Bury Your Gays Motor Mouth Bowdlerise Cold-Blooded Torture Unusually Uninteresting Sight For Want of a Nail Hidden Depths Off-into-the-Distance Ending Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Dropped a Bridge on Him As You Know Mr. Fanservice Anti-Villain The Reveal Arranged Marriage Credits Gag As Long as It Sounds Foreign Kubrick Stare Four-Temperament Ensemble Fat Bastard The '70s Depraved Bisexual Immune to Bullets The Bad Guy Wins Jerkass Has a Point Line-of-Sight Name Match Cut Mundane Made Awesome Roaring Rampage of Revenge Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Karmic Death Eye Scream Training Montage Running Gag Break the Cutie Creepy Child Handicapped Badass Empathic Environment I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Psycho for Hire Pet the Dog Fatal Flaw Ungrateful Bastard Show Within a Show You Killed My Father Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Spanner in the Works Anachronism Stew There Is No Kill Like Overkill Self-Deprecation Wham Shot Important Haircut Dark Is Not Evil Throwing Your Sword Always Works Dwindling Party Hero Antagonist The Chessmaster Only Known by Their Nickname Kill It with Fire Fate Worse than Death Dutch Angle I Did What I Had to Do A God Am I Artistic License – History Properly Paranoid Artistic License – Law Boom, Headshot! May–December Romance Knife Nut Easily Forgiven Moment Killer Brainless Beauty The Dreaded The Great Depression Creative Closing Credits Wham Line Pretty Little Headshots Grey and Gray Morality One Steve Limit Diabolus ex Machina Revenge Belligerent Sexual Tension Corpsing Brother–Sister Incest Abusive Parents Red Shirt Those Two Guys "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Overly Long Gag Blatant Lies Take a Third Option Famous Last Words Every Car Is a Pinto Adult Fear The Starscream Irony Well-Intentioned Extremist Sir Swears-a-Lot Darker and Edgier Faking the Dead Biopic Annoying Younger Sibling Police are Useless Bunny-Ears Lawyer 20 Minutes into the Future Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Sci-Fi Horror Overprotective Dad No Celebrities Were Harmed Blackmail Australian Movies Take That! Sequel Escalation Unspoken Plan Guarantee Kill 'em All Laser-Guided Karma Based on a True Story Evil Laugh Cluster F-Bomb Romantic Comedy The Load The '80s Redemption Equals Death Jitter Cam Ascended Extra Canon Foreigner Chekhov's Gun Stock Footage Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Your Cheating Heart Video Credits Tranquil Fury Driven to Suicide Noodle Incident Big Bad Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Deconstruction Covers Always Lie Obviously Evil The Sociopath Storming the Castle German Films Undying Loyalty Light Is Not Good You Have Failed Me Big Eater Retcon Costume Porn Serious Business Demoted to Extra Interrupted Suicide Russian Films Drowning My Sorrows Reckless Gun Usage Love at First Sight Real Life Writes the Plot Non-Indicative Name Country Matters Blood from the Mouth Worthy Opponent Real Life Babies Ever After What You Are in the Dark In Name Only Poor Communication Kills True Companions Green-Eyed Monster The '50s From Bad to Worse Horror Films Mad Scientist The Un-Reveal Double-Meaning Title Heel Realization The Remake Wounded Gazelle Gambit Married to the Job Daylight Horror The Oner No Ending Silent Movie The Chick Action Girl Knight Templar Thriller Product Placement Once More, with Clarity! Lock and Load Montage A.I. Is a Crapshoot Affably Evil Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Humans Are Bastards Yandere Shower Scene BFG A Father to His Men Fire-Forged Friends Music Stories The Dragon Didn't Think This Through Outrun the Fireball Gold Digger Room Full of Crazy Establishing Character Moment Nice Guy Fiery Redhead Psychological Thriller The Mole Book-Ends Deal with the Devil And Starring The Musical Martial Arts Movie Artistic License – Military The Place Truth in Television Sassy Black Woman Freeze-Frame Bonus Curb-Stomp Battle Karma Houdini Cool Shades Male Frontal Nudity My Greatest Failure Amusing Injuries Protagonist Title Chewing the Scenery Catch-Phrase Eyepatch of Power Made of Explodium Rousing Speech Mighty Whitey Evil vs. Evil Determinator Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Intergenerational Friendship Gratuitous English Nothing Is Scarier The Mafia Token Minority Berserk Button All Girls Want Bad Boys Badass Normal Spared by the Adaptation Anyone Can Die Good Is Not Nice Off with His Head! Rich Bitch Let's Get Dangerous! All There in the Manual Due to the Dead Not What It Looks Like Politically Incorrect Villain Woman in White Captain Obvious I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Fish out of Water Action Genre Cruel and Unusual Death Unresolved Sexual Tension Shout-Out Broken Aesop Gory Discretion Shot Older Than They Look Black Best Friend Death Glare Recycled IN SPACE! Grievous Bottley Harm Fanservice Only a Flesh Wound Genre Savvy Totally Radical Left the Background Music On Advertised Extra Small Name, Big Ego Even Evil Has Loved Ones Big "NO!" No Name Given Agony of the Feet Black Comedy Rape Suddenly SHOUTING! Dirty Coward I'm a Humanitarian Riddle for the Ages Hypocrite Straight Gay Beware the Nice Ones Homage Vitriolic Best Buds Body Horror Death by Irony timeperiod Sanity Slippage Historical-Domain Character Hell Is That Noise Serial Killer Artistic License – Geography Stepford Smiler Scenery Porn As Himself Race Lift Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Vamp Ragtag Bunch of Misfits As the Good Book Says... Roger Ebert: Great Movies List I Have Your Wife Paper-Thin Disguise Stuff Blowing Up She's Got Legs Award-Bait Song Screw This, I'm Outta Here! The End... Or Is It? Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Unreliable Narrator Heel–Face Turn Age Lift The Faceless Authority Equals Asskicking Together in Death Adaptation Name Change Air-Vent Passageway The Bully Stealth Hi/Bye Wretched Hive Bloody Hilarious Red Herring Ambiguously Gay All Men Are Perverts Men Are the Expendable Gender The Lost Lenore Half the Man He Used to Be Sexy Discretion Shot Car Fu Stealth Pun Pretty in Mink A Minor Kidroduction Guns Akimbo Leave the Camera Running Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Mystery and Detective Films Defrosting Ice Queen Plot Hole Loophole Abuse Japanese Films Obstructive Bureaucrat Gender Flip Blood Knight The Film of the Book Card-Carrying Villain Up to Eleven Evil Plan Oh, Crap! Rewatch Bonus Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Composite Character "Awesome McCool" Name Last-Name Basis She Cleans Up Nicely Artistic License – Biology "The Reason You Suck" Speech Silence Is Golden Only in It for the Money Dark Reprise Imagine Spot Animal Motifs Brutal Honesty Television Movie Index Be Careful What You Wish For Bar Brawl Dull Surprise Badass Longcoat The Casanova Artistic License – Physics Sealed Evil in a Can Maybe Ever After The Ghost Action Survivor Adaptation Expansion Mexican Standoff Missing Mom Our Vampires Are Different Morality Pet Ambiguous Disorder Shell-Shocked Veteran Gainax Ending Evil Counterpart