Tropescilloscope: Ax-Crazy

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

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Laughing Mad Ominous Latin Chanting Closed Circle For the Evulz The Dragon Deal with the Devil Dark Reprise Not Using the "Z" Word The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Too Dumb to Live Ripped from the Headlines All Just a Dream This Is Gonna Suck German Films Cassandra Truth Pretty Little Headshots All Men Are Perverts Those Two Guys Scare Chord Bare Your Midriff Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Narrator For Want of a Nail Spiteful Spit Black Comedy Rape Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Book-Ends You Have Failed Me Psycho for Hire Works Set in World War II Catapult Nightmare Back from the Dead Ass Shove Important Haircut Unwitting Instigator of Doom An Axe to Grind The Vamp Conspicuous CG Protagonist Title Mr. Exposition Badass Boast Manchild Funny Foreigner Real Life '80s Hair Ironic Echo Lampshade Hanging Slap-Slap-Kiss Take That! Antagonist Title Stepford Smiler Decoy Protagonist The Smart Guy Big Brother Instinct Honor Before Reason Disney Villain Death Laser-Guided Karma Historical-Domain Character Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Deliberately Monochrome Butt-Monkey Mexican Standoff Bi the Way Comically Missing the Point Expy Age Lift Same Language Dub Crucified Hero Shot Small Name, Big Ego Villain Ball Bilingual Bonus Femme Fatale Villainous Breakdown Sexy Discretion Shot No OSHA Compliance Humiliation Conga Pimped-Out Dress Exactly What It Says on the Tin Meaningful Echo An Arm and a Leg Rated M for Manly Developing Doomed Characters Chase Scene Ambiguous Ending Awesome, but Impractical Noodle Incident Your Head A-Splode Informed Ability O.O.C. Is Serious Business Anti-Hero Pretty in Mink Only Sane Man Refuge in Audacity Death by Irony Evil Laugh "Well Done, Son!" 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Loads and Loads of Characters The Bad Guy Wins One Steve Limit All Girls Want Bad Boys Superhero Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Deliberate Values Dissonance Rule of Symbolism Silence Is Golden Vomit Indiscretion Shot Ambiguous Disorder Arc Words Call-Forward Ambiguously Gay Shown Their Work Mind Screw Brutal Honesty Black and Gray Morality Riddle for the Ages Kick the Dog I Need a Freaking Drink Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Market-Based Title The Stoner Oh, Crap! Unresolved Sexual Tension Smug Snake Music Stories Blood from the Mouth I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Ascended Extra Credits Gag Re-Cut Beard of Evil Scenery Gorn Dirty Cop "Shaggy Dog" Story Hong Kong Films Captain Obvious Insistent Terminology Face Death with Dignity Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Spared by the Adaptation Abusive Parents Dramatic Irony Light Is Not Good Sassy Black Woman Word of God Early-Bird Cameo Once More, with Clarity! Zombie Stories Amoral Attorney Not So Above It All Heroic BSoD No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Eureka Moment Adorkable The Hero Mooks Homage Heroes Want Redheads Manic Pixie Dream Girl Make It Look Like an Accident Roaring Rampage of Revenge Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Anti-Villain The Quiet One Freudian Excuse Demonic Possession The Lancer Properly Paranoid The Dog Bites Back Fanservice Extra Shoot the Shaggy Dog Double Entendre Demoted to Extra Bury Your Gays Award-Bait Song Guile Hero Breaking the Fourth Wall Cloudcuckoolander Leitmotif Reality Ensues Italian Films Evil Is Hammy The Oner Put on a Bus Curb-Stomp Battle Red Shirt Shell-Shocked Veteran Here We Go Again! Defrosting Ice Queen Brick Joke Only One Name Kill 'em All It's Personal Exact Words Green-Eyed Monster Daddy's Girl Match Cut Calling the Old Man Out You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Plucky Comic Relief Hidden Depths Abhorrent Admirer Broken Aesop Black Comedy Improbable Weapon User A.I. Is a Crapshoot Auto Erotica Anguished Declaration of Love Cowboy Cop Be Careful What You Wish For Four-Temperament Ensemble Ax-Crazy Sequel Escalation Adaptational Villainy Imagine Spot Extremely Short Timespan Bald of Evil Even Evil Has Standards Index of Film Westerns Establishing Character Moment Dark Action Girl Darkest Hour Historical In-Joke Evil Is Petty Male Gaze Big Eater Soft Glass Not So Different Say My Name Beware the Nice Ones A Minor Kidroduction Villain Protagonist No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Cruel and Unusual Death Eiffel Tower Effect Jerkass You Killed My Father Badass Longcoat Bullying a Dragon After the End The Remake Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Agony of the Feet Death Seeker Stalker with a Crush Rape as Drama Guns Akimbo Gorn Military and Warfare Films Annoying Younger Sibling Failed a Spot Check Hollywood Darkness Jerk with a Heart of Gold The '80s Humans Are Bastards Evil Sounds Deep Taking You with Me Vampire Fiction Shower Scene Does This Remind You of Anything? Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The '90s Despair Event Horizon Hollywood Law Bait-and-Switch Red Oni, Blue Oni Accidental Misnaming Anachronic Order Happily Married Mundane Made Awesome Overly Long Gag Interrupted Suicide Show Within a Show Downer Ending Jitter Cam Affectionate Parody Intergenerational Friendship Fire-Forged Friends Death by Adaptation Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The Hero Dies Sealed Evil in a Can Disney Death Empathic Environment Berserk Button Film Noir Nice Hat N-Word Privileges Only in It for the Money Super Strength timeperiod Dwindling Party Dies Wide Open Adaptation Expansion Captain Ersatz Rewatch Bonus Cat Scare Worthy Opponent Artistic License – Gun Safety Composite Character Bottomless Magazines The Alleged Car Unusual Euphemism No-Sell Insane Troll Logic Deconstruction Bittersweet Ending Dogged Nice Guy Plot Hole Mad Scientist Throwing Your Sword Always Works Those Two Bad Guys The Chick Public Domain Feature Films Historical Villain Upgrade Rich Bitch Artistic License – Military Frame-Up Armor-Piercing Question Animal Motifs Large Ham Sadistic Choice Fantastic Racism All There in the Manual Foregone Conclusion Madness Mantra Improvised Weapon Anachronism Stew Damsel in Distress Hair-Trigger Temper Love at First Sight Psychological Thriller Did Not Get the Girl Peek-a-Boo Corpse Very Loosely Based on a True Story Dark and Troubled Past Cluster F-Bomb Dramedy The Casanova Serial Killer Nice Guy Canon Foreigner Kick the Son of a Bitch Face–Heel Turn Facial Horror Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Adaptational Badass Gold Digger Leave the Camera Running Bound and Gagged Chekhov's Gun Adaptation Distillation Idiot Ball The Stoic The '50s Race Against the Clock Ship Tease Crapsack World Lighter and Softer An Aesop Tempting Fate Fish out of Water Taking the Bullet Cool Car folderlabel British Films Stealth Pun Not Even Bothering with the Accent Apocalypse How As the Good Book Says... Mighty Whitey Action Girl The Atoner You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Card-Carrying Villain Anyone Can Die Body Horror The Voiceless Cool Old Guy Retcon Kill It with Fire Bad "Bad Acting" True Companions Yandere Action Prologue Never My Fault Blonde, Brunette, Redhead The Place Hoist by His Own Petard Rule of Funny Non-Indicative Name Obstructive Bureaucrat Cool Guns Storming the Castle Wicked Cultured All There in the Script Hell Is That Noise Eldritch Abomination Martial Arts Movie Due to the Dead Stuff Blowing Up Celebrity Paradox Action Survivor I Have Your Wife Pragmatic Villainy "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Fate Worse than Death A Date with Rosie Palms Handicapped Badass Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Up to Eleven Take a Third Option Dirty Coward Moment Killer Groin Attack Determinator aka: The Determinator Badass Bookworm Parental Substitute As Himself Pet the Dog Action Genre Suspiciously Similar Substitute Adaptational Heroism Shout-Out Blatant Lies Self-Deprecation Neck Lift Disproportionate Retribution Cain and Abel Big "NO!" Drugs Are Bad Mood Whiplash Better to Die than Be Killed The Great Depression Gory Discretion Shot Older Than They Look Alpha Bitch Extreme Doormat Aluminum Christmas Trees The Starscream Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Psychopathic Manchild Dumb Blonde Improbable Aiming Skills Those Wacky Nazis Easily Forgiven Our Zombies Are Different Shipper on Deck Hooker with a Heart of Gold Title Drop Chekhov's Gunman The Mafia Artistic License – Geography Silent Movie Every Car Is a Pinto Break the Cutie Earn Your Happy Ending Black Best Friend Faking the Dead "The Reason You Suck" Speech Malevolent Masked Men Film Noir Index Totally Radical She's Got Legs Mystery and Detective Films How We Got Here Spanner in the Works Romantic False Lead Department of Redundancy Department Jerk Jock Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Hypocritical Humor What Happened to the Mouse? 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As Long as It Sounds Foreign Domestic Abuse Dropped a Bridge on Him In the Back Actually Pretty Funny Camp Gay Gilligan Cut He Knows Too Much Dressing as the Enemy Sports Stories Camera Abuse My Beloved Smother Twist Ending Didn't Think This Through Straight Gay Big Bad Depraved Bisexual Naïve Newcomer Love Triangle Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Good Is Not Nice Reckless Gun Usage Wrong Genre Savvy 20 Minutes into the Future Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Room Full of Crazy Well-Intentioned Extremist The Mole Suddenly SHOUTING! Based on a True Story Ungrateful Bastard Horror Films Our Vampires Are Different Babies Ever After Dirty Old Man He Who Fights Monsters Really Gets Around Ghost Fiction Wretched Hive Fantasy Films Fanservice Politically Incorrect Villain Tranquil Fury Flashback The Film of the Book Disguised in Drag Fiery Redhead Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Bowdlerise Character Development Setting Update Australian Movies Deus ex Machina Never Found the Body The X of Y Real Life Writes the Plot Genre Throwback Adaptation Dye-Job Film Series From Nobody to Nightmare Adaptational Attractiveness Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Race Lift Corrupt Corporate Executive Chiaroscuro Arch-Enemy Russian Films Playing Gertrude Crazy Jealous Guy Adaptation Name Change The Smurfette Principle A Father to His Men Slashed Throat The '60s Fingore Papa Wolf Never Trust a Trailer MacGuffin Expository Hairstyle Change Break the Haughty Epic Fail The End... Or Is It? Together in Death Serious Business Fourth Date Marriage Star-Crossed Lovers Contrived Coincidence Wham Line No Name Given Redshirt Army Jump Scare Combat Pragmatist Asshole Victim BFG No Ending Amusing Injuries Betty and Veronica The Reveal Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Death Glare Dutch Angle Translation Convention Dull Surprise Artistic License – Biology She Cleans Up Nicely Only Known by Their Nickname Manly Tears Darker and Edgier Half the Man He Used to Be Boom, Headshot! Animal Title Index Sanity Slippage Arranged Marriage Bad Boss Token Minority Sole Survivor Knight Templar Thriller Unreliable Narrator Soundtrack Dissonance Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds