Tropescilloscope: Bloodier and Gorier

Tone Shift increasing the Gorn. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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