Tropescilloscope: Break the Haughty

Arrogant asshole goes through hell. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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