Tropescilloscope: Ax-Crazy

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

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