Tropescilloscope: Break the Haughty

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

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