Tropescilloscope: Ax-Crazy

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

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