Tropescilloscope: Break the Haughty

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

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