Tropescilloscope: Bunny-Ears Lawyer

Eccentric (and possibly crazy) yet extremely competent character. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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