Tropescilloscope: Butt-Monkey

Nothing goes right for this character. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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