Tropescilloscope: Break the Haughty

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

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