Tropescilloscope: Break the Haughty

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

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Fun with Acronyms Guns Akimbo Fainting Red Right Hand Chekhov's Gunman Brother–Sister Incest It Will Never Catch On Fire-Forged Friends Bond Villain Stupidity Death Seeker Video Credits Public Domain Feature Films Running Gag Determinator Totally Radical Immune to Bullets Race Against the Clock Properly Paranoid Bare Your Midriff BFG Punny Name Death Glare Rousing Speech Back from the Dead Rape as Drama Eyepatch of Power Bolivian Army Ending Serial Killer timeperiod Heel–Face Turn The Alcoholic The Sociopath Kick the Son of a Bitch Line-of-Sight Name Dramatic Irony How We Got Here Good Is Not Nice The Cavalry Death by Sex Retcon Revenge Eagleland Smoking Is Cool Amoral Attorney Animal Motifs Deliberate Values Dissonance Even Evil Has Standards Stepford Smiler Kick the Dog Setting Update Homage Married to the Job Shout-Out Deliberately Monochrome Ghost Fiction Naked People Are Funny 20 Minutes into the Future Neck Snap Neck Lift Crazy-Prepared Jitter Cam A.I. Is a Crapshoot Evil Is Hammy Double-Meaning Title Crapsack World Death of a Child MacGuffin Grievous Bottley Harm Put on a Bus Slasher Movie Mooks The Mole Funny Background Event Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Butt-Monkey Maybe Ever After Scenery Gorn Take a Third Option Artistic License – History Anachronism Stew Actor Allusion Pragmatic Villainy What You Are in the Dark Cowboy Cop Faking the Dead Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Big "NO!" Slasher Smile Bring My Brown Pants No Name Given Freeze-Frame Bonus Big-Bad Ensemble All There in the Script Genre Throwback Alas, Poor Villain Accidental Murder The Ditz Silence Is Golden The End... Or Is It? 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Pragmatic Adaptation Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Fingore After the End Psychopathic Manchild Artistic License – Physics Ripped from the Headlines Evil Brit Composite Character Double Entendre Camera Abuse Cain and Abel Television Movie Index Blackmail Credits Gag Chewing the Scenery Obfuscating Stupidity Gory Discretion Shot Earn Your Happy Ending It's All About Me Names to Run Away from Really Fast Daddy's Girl Dressing as the Enemy Mistaken for Gay The Smurfette Principle Combat Pragmatist Historical In-Joke Psychological Thriller Protagonist Title British Films Eiffel Tower Effect Dark Action Girl Our Zombies Are Different Only Sane Man May–December Romance Curb-Stomp Battle Gainax Ending Documentary Suspiciously Similar Substitute Irony Ungrateful Bastard Knife Nut I Have Your Wife Instant Death Bullet Romantic False Lead Plot Hole Jump Scare Country Matters The Stoner Dumb Blonde Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Ascended Extra Cool Guns Decoy Protagonist Wrong Genre Savvy Depraved Bisexual Genre Shift Wicked Cultured Thriller Artistic License – Gun Safety Exactly What It Says on the Tin Groin Attack Badass Normal No Celebrities Were Harmed Expository Hairstyle Change Call-Back All There in the Manual Vomit Discretion Shot Bad "Bad Acting" Broken Pedestal Due to the Dead One-Word Title Nice Hat Broken Aesop Stealth Hi/Bye Facial Horror Advertised Extra I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Not Using the "Z" Word The Dreaded Demoted to Extra Captain Ersatz All Just a Dream Framing Device Action Survivor You Have Failed Me N-Word Privileges Australian Movies Deadpan Snarker Russian Films Not Even Bothering with the Accent Downer Ending Tap on the Head Dogged Nice Guy Chekhov's Skill Hypocritical Humor I Need a Freaking Drink As the Good Book Says... Adapted Out Bloodier and Gorier Unspoken Plan Guarantee Drugs Are Bad Roaring Rampage of Revenge Reckless Gun Usage Heroic BSoD Obstructive Bureaucrat Affably Evil Adaptational Attractiveness Male Gaze Rule of Funny Tranquil Fury Storming the Castle The Starscream Imagine Spot Card-Carrying Villain Dying Moment of Awesome The Vamp Karmic Death Translation Convention Faux Affably Evil Dark Reprise The Casanova Japanese Films The Ace Fanservice Extra The Un-Reveal Karma Houdini Disney Death Music Stories Mundane Made Awesome Gender Flip Dwindling Party Straight Gay Intrepid Reporter Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Those Two Guys Happily Married Historical-Domain Character Artistic License – Geography Same Language Dub Ambiguous Disorder Race Lift Canadian Movies Amusing Injuries Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Alliterative Name Action Girl Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Hypocrite Spanner in the Works Poor Communication Kills Idiot Ball Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Lancer Vampire Fiction Mexican Standoff Lock and Load Montage Action Prologue Unusual Euphemism Break the Haughty Took a Level in Jerkass Throwing Your Sword Always Works One Steve Limit Animal Title Index Retired Badass Unresolved Sexual Tension Ironic Echo Red Oni, Blue Oni The Dog Bites Back There Is No Kill Like Overkill Anachronic Order Anyone Can Die Mad Scientist Get Out! 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The Film of the Book Big Eater Drives Like Crazy All Girls Want Bad Boys The Lost Lenore The Hero Dies Serious Business "Awesome McCool" Name Would Hit a Girl Big Applesauce Playing Gertrude Politically Incorrect Villain Ship Tease Skewed Priorities Redemption Equals Death Superhero Daylight Horror Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Is Serious Business From Nobody to Nightmare Evil Is Petty The Quiet One Police are Useless Based on a True Story Woman Scorned Dies Wide Open Not Quite Dead Fake Shemp Not What It Looks Like Improvised Weapon Grey and Gray Morality Be Careful What You Wish For Mind Screw Trailers Always Spoil Adaptational Heroism The Chessmaster Dual Wielding Man on Fire Defrosting Ice Queen Stock Footage No-Sell Papa Wolf Defiant to the End Aside Glance Jerk Jock Character Development Bunny-Ears Lawyer Anguished Declaration of Love Honor Before Reason Deconstruction Fantasy Films No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Room Full of Crazy Affectionate Parody Riddle for the Ages Destination Defenestration Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Soft Glass Black Comedy Well-Intentioned Extremist Empathic Environment Better to Die than Be Killed Hong Kong Films Apocalypse How Random Events Plot folderlabel Silent Movie Dull Surprise Face Death with Dignity She's Got Legs Only One Name Film Series Left the Background Music On Reality Ensues Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The Stoic Babies Ever After Spared by the Adaptation Creator Cameo Stalker with a Crush Taking You with Me Cluster F-Bomb Fanservice Sir Swears-a-Lot Parental Neglect Undying Loyalty Corpsing All Men Are Perverts Villain with Good Publicity Rewatch Bonus Bad Boss Shower Scene Fiery Redhead Leitmotif I'm a Humanitarian Evil Laugh Horror Films Car Fu This Is Gonna Suck Bi the Way Betty and Veronica Annoying Younger Sibling Flipping the Bird Fan Disservice Toplessness from the Back Darker and Edgier Non-Indicative Name Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Zombie Stories Death by Adaptation Vacation Films Last-Name Basis Breaking the Fourth Wall Meaningful Echo Knight Templar War Is Hell Bilingual Bonus Really Gets Around As Long as It Sounds Foreign Small Name, Big Ego Spiritual Successor Fantastic Racism Body Horror Motor Mouth Suspiciously Specific Denial The Chick Sealed Evil in a Can The Ghost More Dakka Bond One-Liner Sanity Slippage Gone Horribly Right Naïve Newcomer Older Than They Look Mighty Whitey Black Comedy Rape Hidden Depths Informed Ability Determinator aka: The Determinator Outrun the Fireball Actually Pretty Funny Adaptational Villainy I Did What I Had to Do Large Ham Obviously Evil Men Are the Expendable Gender Have a Gay Old Time Sequel Hook Disney Villain Death Never Trust a Trailer Beauty Is Never Tarnished A Father to His Men Pimped-Out Dress Awesome, but Impractical Darkest Hour The Hero Narrator Parental Substitute Killed Mid-Sentence Author Avatar An Axe to Grind Epic Fail Disappeared Dad The Big Guy Coming-of-Age Story Refuge in Audacity It Can Think The Stinger Stealth Pun From Bad to Worse Noodle Incident Attempted Rape Bury Your Gays Sacrificial Lion Re-Cut Vitriolic Best Buds Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Would Hurt a Child Badass Bookworm Evil Counterpart Mercy Kill Shirtless Scene Show Within a Show Badass Grandpa Dutch Angle Take That! Nice Guy Eldritch Abomination Dramatic Gun Cock Femme Fatale Arch-Enemy Early-Bird Cameo Dark Is Not Evil No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Light Is Not Good Insistent Terminology Hero Antagonist Your Head A-Splode Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Kubrick Stare Psycho for Hire Jerk with a Heart of Gold Historical Hero Upgrade Brutal Honesty The Power of Love French Films Sci-Fi Horror A Date with Rosie Palms Overprotective Dad And the Adventure Continues Age Lift Very Loosely Based on a True Story And I Must Scream Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Adaptation Distillation Action Genre An Arm and a Leg What Happened to the Mouse? Stuff Blowing Up Funny Foreigner Henpecked Husband Foreshadowing Film Noir Index Punch-Clock Villain Cat Scare Hair-Trigger Temper Blatant Lies Truth in Television Greater-Scope Villain Death by Irony Villain Song The '90s The Smart Guy Hope Spot Fatal Family Photo The Faceless Improbable Weapon User Moment Killer Central Theme Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Gilligan Cut Blood Knight Suddenly SHOUTING! Enemy Mine Twist Ending Here We Go Again! Sexy Discretion Shot The Great Depression Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Spiteful Spit Badass Longcoat Arranged Marriage My Greatest Failure Celebrity Paradox My God, What Have I Done? For Want of a Nail Cloudcuckoolander Biopic Friend to All Children Mythology Gag Tagline Index of Film Westerns Love at First Sight Disproportionate Retribution Ambiguously Gay Whole Plot Reference The '50s Calling the Old Man Out Cool Car Casting Gag Bald of Evil Rated M for Manly Half the Man He Used to Be Curse Cut Short Recycled IN SPACE! Developing Doomed Characters